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February 27, 2005
  • Mandatory Insurance vs. Taxes - The phobia of conservatives against taxes is often bizarre, since they'll impose the equivalent on the population, but do anything... MORE...
  • GOP Medicaid Proposals: Taking Crutches Away - So this is the endpoint of Republican policies on cutting back Medicaid: In Missouri, parents of children on Medicaid now... MORE...
  • Bush: Wrong in 1978, Wrong Today - As the New York Times details today, Bush's social security plan is about long-held ideology, not analysis of the situation... MORE...

    February 26, 2005
  • Raising the Cap is All We Need - According to a new actuarial memo by the Social Security Administration, eliminating the cap on wages subject to social security... MORE...

    February 24, 2005
  • Why I like Eminent Domain - How about states using eminent domain to take over drug patents and letting other manufacturers make the drugs at discount... MORE...
  • Prison Segregation and Felon Disenfranchisement - The Supreme Court has decided that prison segregation used in California in an attempt to curb racially-based gang violence is... MORE...

    February 23, 2005
  • Offering a Deal on Social Security - Josh has led the charge against even discussing a deal on Social Security (backed by Atrios and Matt), specifically rejecting... MORE...
  • New Foreign Aid: Migrant Labor to Public Works - Even as we spend hundreds of billions supposedly bringing democracy to Iraq, we ignore our trading partner Mexico. Instead, we've... MORE...

    February 22, 2005
  • When Was That? - Kevin Drum imagines an ideological Eden when the parties were clearly defined: In the past, Democrats were (roughly) the party... MORE...

    February 21, 2005
  • Speaking of Court's Messing with Local Regulations - For any progressives excited about this Supreme Court getting to overrule local economic regulations in the name of property rights,... MORE...
  • Why are Progressives Cheering Scalia? - The Supreme Court is considering the issue of whether eminent domain can be used to buy property from one owner,... MORE...
  • Unfair Shot at AARP - Atrios takes an unfair shot at AARP for supporting the Bush Medicare prescription drug plan. Yes, the plan was less... MORE...

    February 19, 2005
  • More on Bush Tech Policies - Jon Meltzer complains that the American Electronics Association proposals to deal with US technology lags are just: Another trade organization... MORE...

    February 18, 2005
  • Bush Policies Destroying US Economy - No, not the conclusion of a leftwing outfit, but the basic message of a new report by the American Electrionics... MORE...
  • Why Public Opinion Matters more than the Courts - To return to the debate on how court decisions like Roe v. Wade undermine progressive politics, I do want to... MORE...
  • Some Help from Our "Friends" - If Class War Rhetoric is so Bad for Dems, Why Do Republicans Keep Advising Them to Avoid It? You've got... MORE...

    February 17, 2005
  • Calculator on Bush Privatization Plan - Go Chuck Schumer. A very nice simple calculator showing how workers lose out under Social Security privatization. Via Josh Marshall.... MORE...
  • Maybe Bush Should Worry about Democracy in Mexico? - Here's one more reason it's hard to take conservative breastbeating over promoting democracy seriously. Mexico. While the last Mexican Presidential... MORE...

    February 16, 2005
  • Great Tool for Graphing the Left - Okay, it's produced by David Horowitz and is biased in its analysis, but Discover the Network is extensive and its... MORE...
  • US Gave Lebanon to Syria - Ah, we're going through one of those endless rounds of hysterical amnesia, this time in regards to Syria's dominance of... MORE...

    February 15, 2005
  • Reply to Matt on Wage [non]-Growth - Matthew Yglesias responded to my post on why most Americans don't think wages have increased much. I pointed out that... MORE...

    February 11, 2005
  • Values and the Democrats - How can a President cut aid to poor mothers and their children by 9.6%, drop 740,000 of them from the... MORE...

    February 10, 2005
  • What Workers Know That Kevin Doesn't - Kevin Drum is surprised by a poll that shows that Americans think prices have been rising faster than wages, when... MORE...

    February 09, 2005
  • Of course the US Killed Journalists - There's a small brouhaha (see also here, here, and here) over the fact that, at the World Economic Forum, CNN's... MORE...
  • CNN Poll: Tax Wealthy for Social Security - Another poll, this time at CNN finds the most popular solution to fix any problems with social security is to... MORE...

    February 08, 2005
  • Catholic Social Investing - Matt over at TAPPED highlights conservative social investing options -- in this case the rightwing Catholic Ave Maria mututal funds... MORE...
  • No Democracy in the "Ownership Society" - It's a seductive phrase, the "ownership society," but when we are talking about financial assets, the reality is that the... MORE...
  • Transit Budget Insanity - So Bush is proposing eliminating the $1.2 billion spent each year to fund Amtrak. More broadly mass transit will face... MORE...
  • Where is Tip O'Neill? - Bush is using the language of "eliminating reduncancy" but this Bush budget is about a Reaganesque assault on the poor... MORE...

    February 07, 2005
  • Feingold May Run in 2008 - At the moment, Feingold would be my choice for 2008 if he runs. Pro-labor, the only Senate vote against the... MORE...
  • Bush is an Idiot - And I'm being kind in saying that, since the alternative is that he really is a racist. Apparently, when the... MORE...
  • The Corporate Embrace of the GOP - Sam Rosenfeld at TAPPED speaks with alarm of the increasing coordination of lobbying by the Chamber of Commerce and other... MORE...
  • Indifference on Mass Murder - How did people sit back in Germany and around the world and allow the Holocaust to happen? The answer has... MORE...

    February 06, 2005
  • Against Judicial Review- in Iraq and Iran - One of the most pernicious international legacies of US constitutional ideas is the promotion of judicial review of democratic decision-making.... MORE...

    February 05, 2005
  • So Social Security is a Great Deal - For years we've been told the investment returns of having our money in social security were terrible. But Bush's plan... MORE...
  • Bush Slashes Bioterrorism Funding - Bush really doesn't give a damn about terrorism: President Bush's budget for 2006 cuts spending for a wide range of... MORE...

    February 04, 2005
  • 69% Want to End Income Cap on SS Taxes - What's the most popular solution to fix any problems in social security? According to a new poll, cutting benefits or... MORE...
  • Why Are Liberals Afraid of Social Investing? - Matt is expending brain power on how the government can invest social security funds in the stock market, yet avoid... MORE...
  • Federalism, Hypocrisy and Perversity - Bush supports states rights, except when he doesn't. Which of course is when big corporations think they can get a... MORE...
  • Bush's War on the Cities - It's not about Red versus Blue States-- it's about a war by Bush on Blue cities. You better believe that... MORE...

    February 02, 2005
  • SOTU: Death of Small Government Conservatism - Not its death as a political force but as a small government agenda that expects to be convincing to the... MORE...

    February 01, 2005
  • All You Need is Love - Medicare to cover Viagra. Conservatives are protesting, but I'd love to see them vote to tell older folks that they... MORE...
  • GAO: Social Security a Minor Problem - This GAO report is astonishing, if nothing else for the personal voice of the Comptroller General basically screaming that we... MORE...
  • Take Back the Networks Free Spectrum - The major networks rush to give free air time to the President when he makes speeches promoting his agenda. In... 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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