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A “Pledge of Resistance” to Defend Social Security (and Defund the Empire)
For the third time in the last 20 years, establishment voices with high-profile slots in traditional media are trying to convince the public to accept cuts to Social Security …
The Democratic Struggle for Power Has Become Theatrical
In A Nutshell The Performance of Politics offers a new explanation for Barack Obama’s victory in 2008. Rather than demographics, strategy, and money, the argument focuses on cultural meaning …
Health-Care Reform in Cross Hairs: Could It Survive Without Individual Mandate?
Washington - Supporters of President Obama’s health-care reform are holding their breath as legal challenges to the individual mandate – the requirement that by 2014 virtually every American purchase …
The “Undo Everything” Congress Begins With Health Care
Did you think that, having regained control of the House, the GOP will stop being the “party of No” and start governing, or at least doing something about the …
The Shameful Attack on Public Employees
In 1968, 1,300 sanitation workers in Memphis went on strike. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. came to support them. That was where he lost his life. Eventually Memphis …
Health Care Spending Increase Is Smallest In 50 Years
Washington - U.S. health care spending in 2009 grew at the slowest rate in 50 years, as the recession and high unemployment caused outlays for nearly all medical goods …
At Year’s End, a Tale of Two Cities
We probably should have stayed in New Orleans. At the end of a brief Christmas holiday there, last week's blizzard was edging up the east coast and we checked …
Watch Out John – Nancy’s Still on the Job
As Nancy Pelosi hands off the Speaker’s gavel to John Boehner today, she also hands him a tough act to follow. Despite insistent attempts to malign her during her …
Under New Mismanagement
Got Dough? Public School Reform in the Age of Venture Philanthropy
The cost of K–12 public schooling in the United States comes to well over $500 billion per year. So, how much influence could anyone in the private sector exert …