Martin Luther King, Jr. and a revolution of values
From Dr. King’s book Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, 1967: America, the richest and most powerful nation in the world, can well lead the way in this revolution of values. There is nothing to prevent us…
Juxtaposition: Criminal behavior
One made hundreds of millions of dollars running complicated financial scams and played a major role in the California energy crisis of 2000. The other is a nun who spent 40 years as a schoolteacher in western Africa before becoming…
GOP plans to add $4 Trillion to deficit, doubling projections
By prioritizing tax cuts for the wealthiest of the wealthy, Mitch McConnell and the GOP are burdening future generations of Americans with debt that will never be paid off. Over the last year, the GOP has railed against temporary measures…
Mike Pence takes stimulus hypocrisy to a new level
Back in February, Representative Mike Pence issued a statement: One year later, one thing is clear: the stimulus bill has failed. One year later, not one net job has been created as unemployment rose from 7.6 percent to nearly 10…
The Great Stagnation, “a profound crisis of identity for America”
Terrific look at the symptoms, but gets a little wishy-washy when it comes to looking at the causes. The squeeze on the middle class is reaching an untenable point; where we go from here is an economic and policy decision…
“A Sin and a Shame” – Bob Herbert has emerged as the conscience of our nation
Why this isn’t being said every day, on every page of every newspaper and on every TV news show, is beyond me. If private companies can’t create jobs, then there is no way for us to grow our way out…
“Adding profits, subtracting workers” – Pearlstein on the new business dynamic
The national Chamber of Commerce (unlike the smaller, local groups who share that name) is the embodiment of everything wrong with a special interest group. It advocates policies that benefit only a small handful of people while hurting most Americans,…
Indiana’s economy under Mitch Daniels
I was disappointed to see the usually-sharp Ed Kilgore fall into the trap of buying Mitch Daniels’ spin – in a recent piece on Mitch Daniels’ presidential prospects, Kilgore wrote that “his state’s positive fiscal record stands out sharply against…
Why is John Boehner trying to destroy the America he grew up in?
There’s been quite a few posts like this springing up around the Web the last few days, but as usual it’s Greg Sargent who pieces them together into a narrative. Clipped from voices.washingtonpost.com Ever since John Boehner accused Dems last…
Krugman: The heartless, clueless, and confused gang up against the unemployed
It’s nice to see Krugman out making this case in such a straightforward manner. As I’ve repeatedly asked others – without getting a response – what jobs are the unemployed supposed to take right now? Clipped from www.nytimes.com But that…
