Economy

The Breakdown: Are Political Advocacy Donors Evading Taxes?

The Breakdown: Are Political Advocacy Donors Evading Taxes? The Breakdown: Are Political Advocacy Donors Evading Taxes?

The IRS is investigating whether five wealthy donors financing political advocacy groups should be paying additional taxes on their contributions. What is this tax, and why hasn't ...

May 19, 2011 / Chris Hayes

Solving the Euro Crisis

Solving the Euro Crisis Solving the Euro Crisis

The bottom line on bailouts for Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland must be help, not punishment.

May 19, 2011 / Mark Weisbrot

The Queen Comes to Ireland The Queen Comes to Ireland

The Irish government can bend for a British monarch, it seems, but it cannot apply the same rigid discipline to tax cheats and reckless investors.

May 18, 2011 / Jennifer O’Mahony

Eric Schneiderman: One Lawman With the Guts to Go After Wall Street Eric Schneiderman: One Lawman With the Guts to Go After Wall Street

The fix was in to let Wall Street off the hook once and for all... until last week when the attorney general of New York refused to go along.

May 18, 2011 / Robert Scheer

California Protesters Refuse to Become ‘Wisconsin of the West’ California Protesters Refuse to Become ‘Wisconsin of the West’

Protesters in California attempt to stop Wisconsin-style cuts that could result in hundreds of police officers and firefighters losing their jobs.

May 18, 2011 / Allison Kilkenny

Bitten Once, Obama Is Not Shy About Offshore Oil Drilling

Bitten Once, Obama Is Not Shy About Offshore Oil Drilling Bitten Once, Obama Is Not Shy About Offshore Oil Drilling

President Obama is once again calling for increased offshore oil drilling—despite the fact that key safety issues have yet to be addressed.

May 17, 2011 / George Zornick

From GOP ‘Golden Boy’ To Also-Ran: Paul Ryan’s Big Bad Bummer of a Week From GOP ‘Golden Boy’ To Also-Ran: Paul Ryan’s Big Bad Bummer of a Week

Newt Gingrich calls the House Budget Committee chair's  plan to gut Medicare  "right-wing social engineering." An attempt to relaunch the scheme ...

May 17, 2011 / John Nichols

Former Top Obama Economist: ‘National Debate Over Economic Policy is Way Off Track’ Former Top Obama Economist: ‘National Debate Over Economic Policy is Way Off Track’

Jared Bernstein, once the sole progressive economist on President Obama's economic team, launches a blog to critique the country's "terribly narrow economic debate."

May 17, 2011 / Ari Berman

Tens of Thousands Rally in Wisconsin to Declare: ‘This Fight is NOT Over!’ Tens of Thousands Rally in Wisconsin to Declare: ‘This Fight is NOT Over!’

Governor Scott Walker still has not implemented his agenda and thousands of Wisconsinites filled the streets of Madison and other cities Saturday to say they are goi...

May 16, 2011 / John Nichols

Conservatives Try (and Fail) to Paint Unions as Bad for Black People Conservatives Try (and Fail) to Paint Unions as Bad for Black People

Conservatives have attacked unions as bad for African Americans, but the truth is that civil rights and the labor movement have gone hand-in-hand for decades.

May 13, 2011 / Jamelle Bouie

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