by Robert Borosage | Mar 13, 2014 | Better Off Budget, Economy, Progressive Vision, The 2015 Budget
Budgets are numbing – grist for geeks, not citizens. The Congressional Progressive Caucus annual budget proposal – the Better Off Budget – is no exception, detailing row after row of numeric projections. Produced in conjunction with the Economic Policy Institute,...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 28, 2014 | Conservatism, Progressive Vision
Arizona and Uganda are nine thousand miles apart, but they were side by side in the news this week, due to extremist anti-gay laws that spring from and are supported by the religious right. Uganda, Nigeria, etc. On Monday, Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni signed an...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 28, 2014 | Progressive Vision
Has the American left ceased to exist as a viable political force by surrendering its power to a corporatized Democratic Party? That’s the argument put forward by political scientist Adolph Reed Jr., first in an essay for Harper’s magazine and then in a televised...
by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 26, 2014 | Economy, Progressive Vision
By Khalil Bendib for OtherWords Back in the early 1990s, the infancy of the Internet Age, our hippest policy wonks orated endlessly about the emerging “information superhighway.” But that mouthful of a moniker would soon fall out of fashion. Anyone today who talks...
by Damon Silvers | Feb 25, 2014 | Economy, Financial Reform, Progressive Vision
Every day you read in the news about some new big bank outrage. Foreclosing on families without the right paperwork. Charging hidden fees, conspiring to rig markets, defrauding investors. Refusing to lend to small business. A lot of people I’m sure ask every day over...
by Digby | Feb 24, 2014 | Conservatism, Progressive Vision
Think Progress explains that this rather astonishing decline in deaths among young people in car accidents is the result of a concerted government and private industry effort of education, regulations, laws. It's quite a success story. A lot of people are alive today...
