Lindsay Beyerstein

DCCC Ad Shows Grandpa Stripping for Extra Cash to Pay for Medicare

How will the next generation of seniors pay for health care if Republicans privatize Medicare? The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) suggests some options in a darkly funny ad …

By: Lindsay Beyerstein ,; TheMediaConsortium

April 20, 2011

Op-Ed

Government Shutdown Averted, but at What Cost?

Congressional leaders and President Barack Obama reached an eleventh hour budget deal on Friday night, to fund the government for the rest of the 2011 fiscal year and avert …

By: Lindsay Beyerstein ,; TheMediaConsortium

April 12, 2011

News Analysis

Republicans’ Budget Declares War on Medicare

The Republicans are poised to unveil a model budget on Tuesday that would effectively end Medicare by privatizing it, Steve Benen reports in the Washington Monthly. House Budget Committee …

By: Lindsay Beyerstein ,; TheMediaConsortium

April 5, 2011

Japan’s Nuclear Crisis Deepens

A second reactor unit at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan may have ruptured, authorities announced on Wednesday. This is on top of their earlier revelation that the …

By: Lindsay Beyerstein ,; TheMediaConsortium|NewsAnalysis

March 16, 2011

Massive Protest in Wisconsin Shows Walker’s Overreach

About 100,000 people gathered in Madison, Wisconsin to protest Gov. Scott Walker's new anti-collective bargaining law. The state Senate hurriedly past the bill without a quorum last Wednesday. Roger …

By: Lindsay Beyerstein ,; TheMediaConsortium|NewsAnalysis

March 15, 2011

911 Is a Joke (Because It’s Broke)

As the Great Blizzard of 2010 blanketed New York City, most residents were blissfully unaware that their city's 911 system was on the brink of collapse. The system fielded …

By: Lindsay Beyerstein ,; TheMediaConsortium|NewsAnalysis

March 9, 2011

News Analysis

GOP Campaign Against Birth Control Officially Too Crazy for Scaife

We all have our limits. The GOP's crusade against Planned Parenthood is officially too crazy for right-wing philanthropist and media baron Richard Mellon Scaife. In a recent …

By: Lindsay Beyerstein ,; TheMediaConsortium

March 3, 2011

GOP Campaign Against Birth Control Officially Too Crazy for Scaife

We all have our limits. The GOP's crusade against Planned Parenthood is officially too crazy for right-wing philanthropist and media baron Richard Mellon Scaife. In a recent op/ed column, …

By: Lindsay Beyerstein ,; TheMediaConsortium|NewsAnalysis

March 2, 2011

Police Defy Order to Clear Protesters From Wisconsin Capital

On Monday afternoon, the Capitol Police in Madison, Wisconsin refused to enforce an order to clear the Capitol building of hundreds of peaceful protesters who have been occupying the …

By: Lindsay Beyerstein ,; TheMediaConsortium|NewsAnalysis

March 1, 2011

News Analysis

Police Defy Order to Clear Protesters from Wisconsin Capital

On Monday afternoon, the Capitol Police in Madison, Wisconsin refused to enforce an order to clear the Capitol building of hundreds of peaceful protesters who have been occupying the …

By: Lindsay Beyerstein ,; TheMediaConsortium

March 1, 2011

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