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...
by Sam Pizzigati | Aug 18, 2012 | Blog
The old robber barons exploited workers and gouged consumers. Today's robber barons are making millions off a new class of victims: average American taxpayers. Our nation’s tax code has become an incredibly powerful enabler of bloated CEO pay. Boeing makes airplanes....
