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Thom Hartmann | Bring My Job Home!
By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he [the entrepreneur] intends only his own security, and by directing that industry in such a manner as …
Twenty-First Century Blowback?
The construction projects are sprouting like mushrooms: walled complexes, high-strength weapons vaults, and underground bunkers with command and control capacities — and they're being planned and funded by a …
Dean Baker: The Deficit Is the Wrong Problem
“It's the wrong answer to not a problem," says Dean Baker of the report out last week from the leaders of Obama's deficit commission, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson. …
“Waiting for Superman” and Its Simplistic Message Countered by New Documentary Films
In light of the success of Davis Guggenheim's documentary, Waiting for Superman, many education experts have come out with vehement criticism against the film's assertion that teachers, and the …
RJ Eskow | Peter Orszags “Good Cop, Bad Cop” Social Security Routine
Former White House budget director Peter Orszag is taking a new approach in his quest to cut Social Security. He's playing progressive “good cop” to to the ultra-right bad …
News in Brief: Rangel Found Guilty of 11 Ethics Violations, and More
Rangel Found Guilty of 11 Ethics Violations
Let’s Pass Some Laws Before the Republicans Head Into Town (After All, That’s What They’d Do)
Dear Congressional Democrats: Welcome back to our nation's capital for your one final session of the 111th Congress. Come January, the Republicans will take over the House while the …
Living in the Age of Imposed Amnesia: The Eclipse of Democratic Formative Culture
We live in an age in which punitive justice and a theater of cruelty have become the defining elements of a mainstream cultural apparatus that trades in historical and …
Will “Free Trade” Save Obama in 2012?
According to the editors of The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times, with Republicans taking over the House and measured unemployment at 9.6 percent, …
2010 Election Over; Seven-Point Plan for 2012
Election day 2010 is so yesterday. Today and tomorrow, progressive women - who constitute up to 60 percent of the Democrats' base - had better regroup and start a …