by Richard Eskow | Dec 3, 2013 | Economy, Progressive Vision
An almost palpable air of desperation clings to the anti-“populist,” anti-Elizabeth Warren editorial by Jonathan Cowan and Jim Kessler of the corporate-funded Third Way organization. If they're worried, they're right to worry. The world is changing. “Economic Populism...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 26, 2013 | Budget Talks, Economy, Progressive Vision, Retirement Security, The Jobs Challenge, This Is The GOP
Congress is again fighting over the budget with Republicans now demanding cuts in federal employee benefits. Is this really about the budget? Or is it about destroying government? Meanwhile hundreds of billions of taxes owed by corporations remain uncollected. The...
by Thom Hartmann | Nov 25, 2013 | Conservatism, Progressive Vision
On Sunday, major world powers reached an agreement to scale back the Iranian nuclear program. In exchange, our nation and others will slightly lift some of the sanctions against Iran, but embargoes against Iranian banks and oil will remain in place. The interim deal...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 21, 2013 | Conservatism, Progressive Vision
Listen to the breath, the unbroken message that creates itself from the silence, it rushes towards you now, from those youthfully dead. – Rainer Maria Rilke, “Duino Elegies” Fifty years. That’s how long it’s been since John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Half a century...
by Emily Foster | Nov 21, 2013 | Progressive Vision
The year that the first Presidential Medal of Freedom was awarded, 1963, Betty Friedan published “The Feminine Mystique,” the Equal Pay Act of 1963 was signed into law and a young Gloria Steinem was working as a Playboy bunny. That job was actually an early episode in...
by Joshua Holland | Nov 15, 2013 | Conservatism, Economy, Progressive Vision
Rip-off: High Out-of-Pocket Social Costs are a Stealth Tax on the Middle Class and the Poor (via Moyers & Company) Editor’s note: This is the third piece in a series looking at the fact that while Americans enjoy a lower overall tax burden than that of the...
