Last Thursday, I learned that Sen. Rand Paul hasn’t had a functioning toilet in his home for 20 years. He seems to believe the federal government is not allowing him […]

If you think conservatism’s war on America’s working- and middle-classes is only happening in Wisconsin and a few other states, you’re wrong. If you think that it’s only a war […]

Has Jim DeMint, the right-wing senator leading the assault on federal domestic spending, finally gone too far? His corporate executive benefactors may soon come to think so. Even hypocrites can […]

Van Jones gave an inspirational closing talk at yesterday’s the Summit On Jobs & America’s Future in Washington D.C. Beginning by talking about the Tea Party movement and how that […]

I was as the Summit on Jobs & America’s Future yesterday, so I didn’t get to hear Keith Ellison’s testimony at Rep. Peter King’s hearing on "Islamic radicalization." Instead, I […]

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and his crew of country club conservatives this week brutalized the nation’s democratic traditions to secure legislation demanded by big corporations and billionaire conservative financiers like […]

“It’s the economy, moron!” That was pollster Celinda Lake’s succinct take, at the Summit on Jobs & America’s Future, this morning. Lake was there in 1992 when James Carville summed […]

At TPM, in Republicans Struggle To Square Spending Cuts With Job Losses, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell explained why we need more stimulus: “If government spending would stimulate the economy, […]

The phrase “Moment of Truth” first appeared in English in Ernest Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon. It was originally a Spanish expression for for the final sword-thrust in a bull-fight, […]

Over the last year, right-wing politicians introduced a slew of bills in Congress and multiple states that purported to address the problem of illegal immigration. The proposals ranged from replicating […]

Our new man in China, Gary Locke, will have a big, bilateral economic mess to help clean up. The United States posted a record $273 billion trade deficit with China […]

“Clueless.” “Stupid.” “Middle-class welfare.” Sometimes a guy who likes facts and figures gets slapped in the face by reality, and apparently today’s my day. Several recent stories showed me how […]

Not like Valentine’s Day, which is about love and chocolate, or Mother’s Day, which is about sentimentality and breakfast in bed, International Women’s Day is about equality and autonomy. The […]

Hey everyone: QUICK TRIVIA QUESTION: Where are iPads and iPhones manufactured?… Need we even tell you the answer?  Aren’t all of you quite obviously aware that these omnipresent, hi-tech gizmos […]

Lavishly paid corporate executives, flush with tax-deductible taxpayer dollars, have plenty of reason to relish the right-wing assault on ‘overpaid’ public employees. But we can wipe that grin off their […]

Today’s Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report shows 192,000 net new jobs created in February, the best monthly gain in the nine months since the peak of hiring temporary Census […]

The Wisconsin State Capitol has erupted in a torrent of lawlessness this week that schoolchildren will be reading about for years. No, I don’t mean rowdy protests resulting in mass […]