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It’s been 20 months since Barack Obama was inaugurated, and five years since George Bush’s attempt to privatize Social Security were completely rejected by the public. How have conservatives reacted to their decades-long futile attempt to destroy the popular pillar of the New Deal? Have they accept defeat? Or have they gotten more crazy? You […]
Yesterday, the White House released another sharp “White House Whiteboard” video featuring economic advisor Austan Goolsbee clearly explaining how the Recovery Act and additional legislation successfully blunted the recession and put us back on the path of positive job growth. It’s another reminder that we’ve come a long way from the depths of the recession […]
Are you progressive? Young? Person of color? Well, then the pollsters say you are not a “likely voter.” And the media thinks if you are not a pollster-approved “likely voter” – even though the pollsters themselves can’t agree what exactly makes you a pollster-approved “likely voter” — then you don’t much matter. But at the […]
It’s been 20 months since Barack Obama was inaugurated, 19 months since the Recovery Act began investing billions in producing clean energy, 16 months since the House passed carbon cap legislation and 10 months since the EPA declared it was obligated, following a Supreme Court ruling, to regulate greenhouse gases because global warming is real. […]
The Tea Party has long attempted to portray itself as a populist movement — angry both at Wall Street bailouts and social spending. The notion of government action working to save the private sector from collapse was literally depicted as a giant step towards Nazism, most prominently by unofficial Tea Party leader Glenn Beck. And […]
The world is rightly cheering the ongoing rescue of the trapped Chilean miners. But let’s not forget how they got there: horrible safety regulations and enforcement. In These Times’ Lindsey Beyerstein reported back in August that the miners would have escaped right away, if only the mine owners followed the law, and the government enforced […]
Editor’s Note: We’re publishing a series of “Making Sense” fact sheets on key economic issues to help you win the debate on the core issues facing middle-class families. Each fact sheet contains information, talking points and resources you can use to make the case for progressive policies. Last week: Curbing Wall Street and Social Security. […]
Discrediting corporate-funded right-wing smears remains the greatest challenge to advancing progressive change. Health Care For America Now’s new campaign Stop Spewman starring Jack Black is off to a fantastic start. It’s always important to do the tedious work of debunking the specific smears continually catapulted by the conservative movement. But if fact checks were enough, […]
It’s been 20 months since Barack Obama was inaugurated, and two months since Wall Street reform was signed into law, and two weeks since Elizabeth Warren was appointed to set up the first agency designed to protect consumers of financial products. It may be in vogue among conservatives to join most Americans in criticizing the […]
In a New York Times article about the upcoming remake of the movie “Arthur,” the original film’s producer was asked about the ridiculous conclusion, where the spoiled man-child millionaire gets to keep both his inheritance and his true love. The producer said: The idea was: Give Arthur the money, bring up the music loud and […]