In Fiscal Cliff Deal, Don’t Chain Grandma to Smaller Social Security Checks In Fiscal Cliff Deal, Don’t Chain Grandma to Smaller Social Security Checks
The chained CPI proposal in Obama's fiscal cliff offer will hurt impoverished elderly women.
Dec 18, 2012 / Bryce Covert
Newtown: Home of the Gun Nut Newtown: Home of the Gun Nut
The site of Friday’s massacre is also headquarters for a main gun lobbyist.
Dec 17, 2012 / Bob Dreyfuss
Josh Eidelson: Right-to-Work Laws Are Good for Corporations, Not Workers Josh Eidelson: Right-to-Work Laws Are Good for Corporations, Not Workers
Governor Rick Snyder ignored the interests of Michigan workers to please his corporate backers.
Dec 17, 2012 / Press Room
Occupy the NRA Occupy the NRA
An offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement has responded to the Connecticut massacre, calling for gun control policies that will save lives.
Dec 17, 2012 / Allison Kilkenny
How ALEC Thwarts Honest Debate About Gun Violence How ALEC Thwarts Honest Debate About Gun Violence
The corporate group produces “model” legislation designed to prevent action. Even when mass killings demand it.
Dec 16, 2012 / John Nichols
Does the NRA Represent Gun Manufacturers or Gun Owners? Does the NRA Represent Gun Manufacturers or Gun Owners?
The National Rifle Association has successfully stymied any effort to regulate gun ownership, but whom do they really represent?
Dec 15, 2012 / Lee Fang
Debugging Our Democracy Debugging Our Democracy
Our sticky, rickety ability to govern forces us to incessantly choose policy choices from the bad/dumb end of the solution continuum.
Dec 13, 2012 / Eric Alterman
Listen to the Fed: Unemployment Is the Real Problem Listen to the Fed: Unemployment Is the Real Problem
Ben Bernanke described the persistence of mass joblessness as “a waste of human and economic potential.”
Dec 13, 2012 / William Greider
Lee Fang: The Corporate Cash Behind Michigan’s ‘Right to Work’ Legislation Lee Fang: The Corporate Cash Behind Michigan’s ‘Right to Work’ Legislation
What caused Michigan Governor Rick Snyder’s political 180 on anti-labor legislation?
Dec 13, 2012 / Press Room
Emerging Fiscal Cliff Deal Spares Corporations, but Not the Safety Net Emerging Fiscal Cliff Deal Spares Corporations, but Not the Safety Net
Is Obama’s preferred deal one that cuts benefits for millions of Americans while sparing corporate America?
Dec 12, 2012 / George Zornick