What Paul Ryan’s Budget Means for Women What Paul Ryan’s Budget Means for Women
Short version: a huge reduction in many of the programs they rely on.
Mar 12, 2013 / Bryce Covert
This Week: Stumbling Toward Sequestration This Week: Stumbling Toward Sequestration
The $85 billion sequester will hurt our economy—and our people.
Mar 2, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
To Beat Austerity, Obama Must Campaign for Democracy To Beat Austerity, Obama Must Campaign for Democracy
How committed is the president to kicking big money out of politics?
Feb 26, 2013 / John Nichols
Stacking the Deck: The Phony ‘Fix the Debt’ Campaign Stacking the Deck: The Phony ‘Fix the Debt’ Campaign
Pete Peterson’s $60 million push to sell corporate America’s ruthless austerity agenda.
Feb 20, 2013 / Feature / The Editors
The Austerity Agenda: An Electoral Loser The Austerity Agenda: An Electoral Loser
Candidates who ran on slashing Medicare and Social Security lost big in November. But that doesn’t stop Pete Peterson from pushing the fantasy that voters’ biggest conc...
Feb 20, 2013 / Feature / John Nichols
Pete Peterson’s Long History of Deficit Scaremongering Pete Peterson’s Long History of Deficit Scaremongering
The man behind Fix the Debt has spent decades trying to foment panic over a looming economic disaster, with little to show for it.
Feb 20, 2013 / Feature / Lisa Graves
Pete Peterson’s Puppet Populists Pete Peterson’s Puppet Populists
The “Fix the Debt” campaign is pure astroturf: corporate cash machinery masquerading as a grassroots uprising.
Feb 20, 2013 / Feature / Mary Bottari
Fix the Debt’s Fuzzy Math Fix the Debt’s Fuzzy Math
Dire warnings about the deficit don’t add up mathematically. But then, Fix the Debt is not really about the economy, it’s about gutting Medicare, Social Security and ot...
Feb 20, 2013 / Feature / Dean Baker
Obama Takes a Stand Against Austerity Obama Takes a Stand Against Austerity
He may not have achieved the full FDR, but the president’s State of the Union speech, like his Inaugural, displayed a welcome progressive spirit.
Feb 13, 2013 / The Editors
The Great Regression The Great Regression
The decline of the progressive income tax and the rise of inequality.
Feb 6, 2013 / Feature / Sam Pizzigati and Chuck Collins