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March 31, 2004
  • FMA Supports in Full Retreat - It's all over but the shouting on the Federal Marriage Amendment. With conservatives like Bob Barr, the main author of... MORE...

    March 30, 2004
  • Felon Voting a Human Right - There has been a lot of discussion about how stripping felons of their voting rights is a legacy of racism... MORE...

    March 29, 2004
  • Labor Roundup - HAPPY CESAR CHAVEZ DAY! Thousands march in San Antonio, Sacramento Arizona voters may vote this fall on making day a... MORE...
  • Happy B-Day to Confined Space - A reminder that Confined Space continues to do the best coverage of workers health and safety issues in the blogosphere.... MORE...
  • Can We Padlock FoxNews? - Here... MORE...

    March 28, 2004
  • Why I Supported Medicare Bill - Bush thought passing the Medicare Prescription Drug Bill would be a slamdunk for him politically-- a Clintonesque move of triangulation... MORE...

    March 27, 2004
  • Kerry Dares GOP to Indict Clarke - The Rightwing Attack Machine is trying to destroy Clarke's credibility. They are saying he's a liar. Problem with that line... MORE...

    March 26, 2004
  • No Bush Financial Advantage? - I've never been impressed by fears of Bush's fundraising advantage, since I assumed that grassroots energy and volunteers, combined with... MORE...
  • Banning Books in North Carolina - Banning gay marriage isn't enough for the rightwing. They want to ban discussion of the idea. So a North Carolina... MORE...
  • A Good Use of Pension Funds - In past years, workers pension funds, especially the ones controlled by employers have been raided to fuel corporate takeovers or... MORE...
  • GOP Increases Medicare Costs by $220/year - The GOP Medicare prescription bill is already costing seniors more money- a projected increase of monthly premiums from $66.60 to... MORE...

    March 24, 2004
  • How Bombs Remade Europe - The plans of the new Spanish government to pull their troops from Iraq are making the most news. But even... MORE...

    March 23, 2004
  • Dubya Lies- Small Business Not Rich - More lies. Pimping for his megabuck corporate supporters, Bush has tried in recent weeks to attack Kerry's tax plans as... MORE...
  • Does Trade With China Matter? - Let me be clear-- I am not a protectionist. I like trade. I am in favor of poor countries trading... MORE...
  • Destroying the Messenger - Paul Krugman emphasizes that the personal assaults on Richard Clarke for revealing the indifference of Bush's team to Al Qaeda... MORE...

    March 22, 2004
  • Labor Roundup - Strikes, Organizing and Contract Negotiations Nursing home unions grow in Florida. Successful home health care organizing in Washington State by... MORE...
  • Immigrant Poor: Real Source of Foreign Aid - One more reason to support far-reaching immigration-- it seems like the only way to assure some degree of foreign aid... MORE...

    March 21, 2004
  • Coming Crash in House Prices - Look carefully at this graph of housing prices compared to average income: Unlike Britain, which has gone through some series... MORE...
  • Social Security is Fine - Sometimes the most radical thing to say is that nothing is wrong at all. Jane Bryant Quinn argues Social Security... MORE...
  • Privatizing Iraq - Juan Cole on how elections were delayed in order to prevent an elected government from blocking US privatization plans.... MORE...
  • Boycott MTV - MTV obviously doesn't have enough money. They insisted on hiring scab non-union labor to do their construction work for their... MORE...
  • Church Schisms, Gays and Slavery - A lesbian Methodist pastor has been found "not guilty" by a church jury of violating church law. But some Methodists... MORE...

    March 20, 2004
  • Withheld Medicare Details - In a classic Friday information dump, the Bush administration allowed Richard Foster, the chief Medicare actuary, to release the data... MORE...

    March 19, 2004
  • Bush Gear- Made in Burma - Apparently, some of Bush campaign jackets come straight from Burma (via Atrios) So order some Kerry gear-- made in the... MORE...
  • Civil War Fought Over Slavery - Okay, that headline should be a dog bites man story, so obvious as to not be worth mentioning. But its... MORE...
  • Sully Wins "First They Came For..." Award - Andrew Sullivan is an idiot. And he admits it: I have to say that I have been culpably naive about... MORE...

    March 18, 2004
  • Crudele on Why Growth is Not Real - The New York Post's John Crudele weighs in on why the lack of jobs reflects the fact that the growth... MORE...
  • Good News for Wisconsin Workers - A double header of good news for workers in Wisconsin, who will soon have an increased statewide minimum wage, and... MORE...
  • GOP to Give Pay Day to Insurers - The GOP, seeing problems in abuses of the insurance market, want to end lax regulation by state governments and establish... MORE...

    March 16, 2004
  • Big Biz: Health Costs Down/Profits Up - Businesses announce a slashing of health care benefits. Sad you know, but those rising health care costs forced them to... MORE...
  • Did the Terrorists Win in Spain? - I'm disappointed that Kevin Drum has joined the chorus that a Spanish vote to end its involvement in Iraq in... MORE...

    March 15, 2004
  • Young People Giving Up on Economy - One meme out on the rightwing is that the media is unfairly hitting Dubya on the unemployment rate since today's... MORE...
  • Spanish Election Good for EU - Spanish election may speed negotiations on the stalled talks on a new EU Constitution. The new government wants a strong... MORE...
  • Rightwing Talking Points on Spain - From comments in my Spain post I thought you said that Iraq and al qaeda aren't related at all. I... MORE...
  • Why US Occupation Continues after June - Bush wants to claim that with the new Constitution passed, power will be turned over to Iraqis after June of... MORE...

    March 14, 2004
  • Spanish Voters Blame Terrorism on War - Well, Spanish voters sure didn't engage in jingoistic rallying around their government. Spain was rewarded for backing Bush's war on... MORE...
  • Medicare Lies & Intimidation - The story of the Medicare actuary being told not to give accurate info to Congress or risk being fired is... MORE...

    March 13, 2004
  • WTO Orders Mexican Phone Privatization - That seems to be the upshot of this ruling by the WTO: The administration said the WTO ruled that Mexico... MORE...
  • Denying Students Aid for Drug Use - Murdered someone? Raped someone? The government will give you loans and financial aid to pay for college. Did some pot... MORE...

    March 12, 2004
  • Refused C-Section: Charged w Murder - One more round on the abortion wars-- a woman was afraid of getting a Caesarean to deliver her children. Her... MORE...
  • Bush Jobs: $6 per Hour - So who was in the crowd when Bush talked about "Strengthening America's Economy"- low wage workers: the work force [was... MORE...
  • Assault on Dissent - Susan Lindauer may be stupid or misguided, but indicting her for meeting with Iraqi officials when we WERE NOT AT... MORE...

    March 11, 2004
  • Andy Stern: State of the Unions - And the state is not good, according to the head of the AFL-CIO's largest union: At 8.2 percent of the... MORE...
  • It's Official: Bush Lies - The General Accounting Office, an investigative arm of Congress, said on Wednesday that advertisements and brochures prepared by the Bush... MORE...

    March 10, 2004
  • 911 Disabled up to 1000 Firefighters - New reports indicate that far more firefighters and other rescue personnell were disabled by breathing toxic dust from the 911... MORE...
  • Why Not? - This guy thinks he's cute proposing that he be allowed to marry his grandmother. Why not? If his point is... MORE...
  • GOP Dissent v Bush on Outsourcing - Bush made a speech denouncing those targeting outsourcing as a problem as "economic isolationists", a speech that has some rightwingers... MORE...
  • Killing Judas - No, not that one, but the Democratic state house member who sided with the Republicans to push through redistricting. In... MORE...
  • Catholics- the 2004 Swing Vote? - Not a lot has been written about the ethnic and religious politics of the race this year-- at heart it's... MORE...

    March 09, 2004
  • Judicial Restraint Protects Gay Rights - The Supreme Court decided not to do something yesterday. Which was a major win for gay rights. Just as when... MORE...
  • Fake Market Propaganda for HMOs - Markets can do better than the government in delivering services. Markets are more efficient. Markets save consumers money. Markets in... MORE...

    March 05, 2004
  • Who Will NOT be VP - Let me give you a list of Democrats who will not be the VP nominee-- those supporting Bush on tax... MORE...

    March 04, 2004
  • This Explains a Lot About Ann Coulter - "Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity." ** From today's Coulter column. The... MORE...

    March 03, 2004
  • The Problem with Nader - I have great respect for Ralph Nader's activism over the years, and even more importantly, the inspiration and organizing impetus... MORE...

    March 01, 2004
  • Buddy Ro Profiled in NATION - My friend Ro has been giving Tom Lantos a challenge over his pro-war position and The Nation's John Nichols has... MORE...
  • Bush Subverts Haiti Democracy - Aristide was not a perfect democrat, but by the standards of most countries and Haitian history, he was a shining... MORE...
  • NYC Taxi Workers Win - The New York City Taxi & Limosine Commission just approved a 26% taxi fare increase, no surprise after eight years... MORE...
  • Islamic Judicial Review - In Iran, the recent election of conservatives after the equivalent of a judicial court barred progressives from running in the... MORE...
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    February 21, 2007
  • Amnesia on the Death of Reconstruction - I am going to pick on Brad Delong precisely because he is a brilliant and well-educated academic-- and his list... MORE...

    February 18, 2007
  • So What if Mitt Wants A Person of Faith as President? - There's a bit of a furor that Mitt Romney declared:We need to have a person of fiath lead the country.So... MORE...

    February 16, 2007
  • States Taking Action Against Iraq Escalation - So the New York Times is covering the story that resolutions denouncing Bush's Iraq Escalation have been introduced in over... MORE...

    January 01, 2007
  • Wal-Mart Doing Good for Environment - Seriously. This initiative by Wal-Mart to promote energy-saving light bulbs is a major environmental initiative. "Compact fluorescent" bulbs fit in... MORE...

    December 22, 2006
  • Dems' Stupid Positioning on Minimum Wage - As a followup to discussing why politicians need to appeal to a broad consensus, it's worth emphasizing that it's easier... MORE...

    December 21, 2006
  • Obama and the Need for Large Progressive Majorities - I've been as disappointed as many other progressive bloggers with Obama's bad votes on tort reform and seeming trimming of... MORE...

    December 13, 2006
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    November 27, 2006
  • Ecuador Goes Left - Another country moves left-- whatever you want to say, Bush has been very good for reviving the global left, especially... MORE...
  • Building a Progressive Majority in the Statehouses - The Progressive States Network today rolled out its legislative agenda for the 2007 session and is looking to promote it... MORE...

    November 13, 2006
  • The Future Belongs to US - While the actual results seem razer-thin in this election, I'll be bold and argue that they are part of a... MORE...

    November 11, 2006
  • Pro-Labor "Conservative Democrats" - One more nail in the narrative that the victory of a few moderate Democrats means this election is really a... MORE...

    November 10, 2006
  • The Collapse of Tax Cut Politics - You can check out Progressive States rundown of progressive successes in the states on Tuesday, but I want to focus... MORE...

    November 08, 2006
  • A Good Night for Progressives - Let's be clear-- this wasn't just a good night for Democrats. It was a good night for progressives, and no... MORE...

    November 01, 2006
  • Labor Cold War Ends - New International Labor Federation - At the dawn of the Cold War, the international union movement divided up between the ICFTU, dominated by US and Western European unions, and the World Confederation of Labor, largely allied with the Soviet Union. It's taken a decade and a half, but the irrelevancy of that division will end today as the two federations merge-- bringing together 241 labor organizations from 156 countries representing 190 million workers. The new International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is a good step for a labor movement looking to globalize itself in the taking on global capital power.... MORE...

    October 19, 2006
  • Immigrant Poor Send More Foreign Aid than US Govt - The United States government spends less money on foreign aid as a percentage of its budget than almost any other... MORE...

    October 17, 2006
  • - Valuing Families:  State Legislative Models Brought to you by Progressive States and MomsRising What would a policy that really values families look... MORE...

    October 09, 2006
  • Emaciated Models, Labor Regulation - There's a bit of debate in the blogosphere around Spain's new law banning underweight models from the runways in that country. See Jordan, Amanda at Pandagon and Lindsay Beyerstein at Majikthise on whether this is an intrusive regulating violating free expression or something like that and whether OSHA safety regulations are appropriate. Just to throw my two cents in-- any broader OSHA approach would seem cumbersome and bureaucratically intrusive in a deep way. But the original Spanish proposal is brilliant in its high-impact, low-intrusion approach. Regulate only the fashion week type runways, where in a single spotcheck, models can be... MORE...

    October 03, 2006
  • Big loss for Labor-- - The National Labor Relations Board ruled today that a range of professionals are now deemed "supervisors" and thus lose all protections under labor law. That means if they say a positive thing about unions, their bosses are free to fire them at will. The AFL-CIO has more here. To put this denial of labor rights in perspective, 32 million workers or 25% of the workforce already have no right to form a union under federal, state or local law (see this GAO report and this ARAW summary). This includes: Supervisors 16.6 million workers, 8 million new supervisors plus traditional 8.6... MORE...

    September 27, 2006
  • Civil War on the Right- Dick Armey trashes Dobson - The economic business- right and the religious right are moving towards total civil war. This piece by former GOP Majority... MORE...

    September 24, 2006
  • Allen the Racist - Three college teammates confirm that George Allen regularly used the N- word: Allen said he came to Virginia because he... MORE...

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