Senate Approves Debt Deal, as Palin Declares Tea Party ‘Victory’ Senate Approves Debt Deal, as Palin Declares Tea Party ‘Victory’
A Democratic Senate endorses a plan that Bernie Sanders warns risks “devastating cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid...”
Aug 2, 2011 / John Nichols
Melissa Harris-Perry: Voters Are Crying Out for Economic Recovery Melissa Harris-Perry: Voters Are Crying Out for Economic Recovery
Melissa Harris-Perry argues that the debt deal will only make it more difficult for the federal government to foster the economic recovery the American people so desperately want.
Aug 2, 2011 / Press Room
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Debt Deal Exposes America’s Democratic Deficit Katrina vanden Heuvel: Debt Deal Exposes America’s Democratic Deficit
The political and economic elite are drifting further and further away from the rest of the country.
Aug 2, 2011 / Press Room
Melissa Harris-Perry: Voters Are Crying Out for Economic Recovery Melissa Harris-Perry: Voters Are Crying Out for Economic Recovery
Melissa Harris-Perry argues that the debt deal will only make it more difficult for the federal government to foster the economic recovery the American people so desperately want.
Aug 2, 2011 / MSNBC
Meet Erick Erickson, the New-Media Rush Limbaugh Meet Erick Erickson, the New-Media Rush Limbaugh
Although unknown to many liberals, Red State’s Erick Erickson is an exemplar of the new right-wing media activists pushing the GOP to extremes.
Aug 2, 2011 / Ben Adler
Slide Show: The 8 Biggest Winners and Losers of the Debt Ceiling Deal Slide Show: The 8 Biggest Winners and Losers of the Debt Ceiling Deal
Aug 2, 2011 / Photo Essay / The Nation
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Debt Deal Exposes America’s Democratic Deficit Katrina vanden Heuvel: Debt Deal Exposes America’s Democratic Deficit
The political and economic elite are drifting further and further away from the rest of the country.
Aug 2, 2011 / The Diane Rehm Show
Winners and Losers in Congress’s Debt Deal Winners and Losers in Congress’s Debt Deal
The Nation's Ari Melber on MSNBC's The Last Word describes how Barack Obama might have made the debt ceiling and eventual debt deal more of a compromise and less of a concessi...
Aug 2, 2011 / Press Room
Time to Lower America’s War Ceiling? Time to Lower America’s War Ceiling?
Exploring the war crisis that lurks behind the debt-ceiling crisis.
Aug 2, 2011 / Tom Engelhardt
Who’s Helped and Who’s Harmed By Debt Deal? Who’s Helped and Who’s Harmed By Debt Deal?
The deal savages programs for the lower and middle classes, while hedge fund managers and oil companies probably won’t sacrifice a cent.
Aug 1, 2011 / George Zornick