by Bill Scher | Aug 20, 2012 | Blog
At a New Hampshire town hall today, Paul Ryan said that if we "cut spending" will avoid European austerity, and America will be the "port in the storm of the global economy." In other words, if we adopt radical austerity now, we won't have radical austerity later. As...
by Jeff Bryant | Aug 20, 2012 | Blog, Education
Just like you can count on "Back to School" season cranking up retail sales this time of year, you can also count on it bringing on a new volley of criticism aimed at school teachers and their unions. Leading off the charge this year was an op-ed written by ex-NBC...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 20, 2012 | Blog, Climate
There has been a recent flurry of propaganda attacks on wind and solar energy by oil-and-coal-backed conservatives. A vitally important tax credit to help build a renewable energy industry in this country expires at the end of this year without Congressional action,...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 20, 2012 | Blog
The estimable E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post writes today about the utterly dishonest debate the Romney-Ryan campaign is waging. On Medicare, the current centerpiece, Ryan and Romney simply lie. This is a subset of a dishonest debate on how to cut the deficit:...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 20, 2012 | Blog
In the annals of Mitt Romney's days at Bain Capital, one story seems to have escaped our collective memory. It involves Bain's acquisition of a New York City drug store chain during Mitt Romney's tenure there, and the hiring of a new president who would turn out to...
