by Terrance Heath | Jan 27, 2012 | Blog
Another GOP debate has come and gone, and there's a clear consensus on who won and who lost this round. After two fabulously bombastic debate performances, Newt Gingrich was defeated by the one man he can never seem to beat: himself. Ultimately, Newt's problem is just...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 27, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
Servitude: "a condition in which one lacks liberty especially to determine one's course of action or way of life" Democracy: "a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 27, 2012 | Blog
LISTEN The Nation's Greg Kaufmann discusses "This Week in Poverty" and the need to make the plight of poor people more visible. Did you catch the reference in President Obama's State of the Union address to "poverty"? You can be forgiven if you didn't. Greg Kaufmann...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 27, 2012 | Blog
The GOP presidential candidates continue to play their parts in an implausible story of a world that could never exist, acting out nonexistent conflicts while delivering dialog that insults the intelligence. That's not because they're stupid. It's because they think...
by Bill Scher | Jan 26, 2012 | Blog, Climate
Yesterday, one of Politico's headlines from the State of the Union was: "He steals GOP's 'all of the above' energy slogan." But something can only be stolen from you if you actually had it in the first place. Yes, the Republicans like to say they are for an "all of...
by Mary Bottari | Jan 26, 2012 | Blog, Financial Reform
Thanks to Occupy Wall Street, in the State of the Union this week President Obama struck some of his most populist themes yet. He wants to tax millionaires, bring back manufacturing and prosecute the big banks. He touted his Wall Street reforms saying the big banks...
