MSM Mirrors GOP’s Line on Paul Ryan’s Medicare-Killing Budget Plan: Don’t Hurt His Feelings! MSM Mirrors GOP’s Line on Paul Ryan’s Medicare-Killing Budget Plan: Don’t Hurt His Feelings!
Even the non-Fox mainstream media is reporting more on Obama’s criticism of Ryan than on what Ryan’s plan would do to the poor and middle-class.
Apr 18, 2011 / Leslie Savan
Paul Ryan’s Authoritarian Freakout: Losing Control of Budget Vote, Congressman Screeches ‘Shut it Down’ Paul Ryan’s Authoritarian Freakout: Losing Control of Budget Vote, Congressman Screeches ‘Shut it Down’
What would Ryan's purported heroine, Ayn Rand, make of his big-government control freakery?
Apr 16, 2011 / John Nichols
After Budget Showdown, Women Under the Bus After Budget Showdown, Women Under the Bus
Planned Parenthood's funding may have survived, but Congress still trampled on women's rights.
Apr 14, 2011 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The False Debate on the Debt The False Debate on the Debt
America is stuck in an absurd debate over how deeply to cut teachers’ pensions and seniors’ medical benefits while preserving tax breaks for the superrich.
Apr 13, 2011 / Robert Scheer
Social Security and the Deficit Should Not Be in the Same Sentence Social Security and the Deficit Should Not Be in the Same Sentence
Katrina vanden Heuvel talks about the political class in Washington's broke and bankrupt debate on the deficit.
Apr 12, 2011 / Press Room
We Can’t Win the Fight if We Can’t Tell the Story We Can’t Win the Fight if We Can’t Tell the Story
Whatever one thinks of the foreign and domestic policy outcomes of the past two years, it is clear that the Obama administration has stumbled in its ability to tell a compelling st...
Apr 12, 2011 / Melissa Harris-Perry
Washington, DC: Where Conservative Congressmen Dump Bad Ideas Washington, DC: Where Conservative Congressmen Dump Bad Ideas
The Obama-Boehner budget's ban on abortion funding for DC is a stark reminder that district residents still aren't treated as equals in American democracy.
Apr 12, 2011 / Martin Austermuhle
Poverty in John Boehner’s District Poverty in John Boehner’s District
Fourteen percent of Speaker Boehner’s constituents live below the federal poverty line of $22,400 per year for a family of four. His budget targets these vulnerable people. ...
Apr 11, 2011 / Greg Kaufmann
NPR Station in LA Suspends Planned Parenthood Spots NPR Station in LA Suspends Planned Parenthood Spots
A tale of journalistic cowardice.
Apr 10, 2011 / Jon Wiener
Advice for Obama: Confront, Then Compromise Advice for Obama: Confront, Then Compromise
By failing to thematically challenge the GOP’s budget, President Obama has made it easier for John Boehner to keep demanding larger and larger spending cuts.
Apr 8, 2011 / Ari Berman