Students Suspended For Protesting Budget, Unions Plan Massive Rally Opposing Bloomberg’s Cuts Students Suspended For Protesting Budget, Unions Plan Massive Rally Opposing Bloomberg’s Cuts
In a violation of their First Amendment rights, students have been suspended for protesting their district’s budget cuts. New York unions plan a massive rally to oppose the f...
Apr 25, 2011 / Allison Kilkenny
The Issue Is Jobs, Not Deficit Reduction The Issue Is Jobs, Not Deficit Reduction
A Democratic congressman tells the president to stop reading from GOP talking points and start borrowing a page from FDR.
Apr 25, 2011 / John Nichols
The Warped US Tax System: Taxpayers Subsidize Their Own Destruction The Warped US Tax System: Taxpayers Subsidize Their Own Destruction
In 2010, Boeing received a net tax refund of $137 million from state and local governments despite earning more than $4 billion in pretax profits. But instead of investing back int...
Apr 24, 2011 / Allison Kilkenny
A Responsible Republican Rejects Paul Ryan’s Fiscal Folly A Responsible Republican Rejects Paul Ryan’s Fiscal Folly
Maine's Susan Collins is no liberal. But she is not about to back Ryan's plan to gut Medicare and Medicaid. Will other GOP senators be as honest in their assessment of a bad bill?
Apr 23, 2011 / John Nichols
Insert Hed Here Insert Hed Here
Eric on Smithsonian's Jazz anthology and Reed Richardson on the S&P's rating of the bond market.
Apr 22, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
News for Obama: Public Cares About Jobs, Not Deficit News for Obama: Public Cares About Jobs, Not Deficit
A major new poll shows that Americans do not believe cutting the deficit will create jobs. So why have leaders of both parties become deficit hawks?
Apr 22, 2011 / Ari Berman
The Breakdown: Are Financial Institutions Holding Our Economy Hostage? The Breakdown: Are Financial Institutions Holding Our Economy Hostage?
Years after we were first told that the banks were "too big to fail," we still seem to be held captive by the same financial system that caused our economic mess in the first place...
Apr 22, 2011 / Chris Hayes
Town Hall Meltdowns, Hundreds Protest Cuts Town Hall Meltdowns, Hundreds Protest Cuts
As the effects of budget cuts begin to sink in, hundreds turn out to protest their local leaders and the president himself.
Apr 22, 2011 / Allison Kilkenny
How Koch Industries Politicizes the Workplace How Koch Industries Politicizes the Workplace
After the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, corporations like Koch Industries are pushing their own political agenda in the workplace.
Apr 21, 2011 / Democracy Now!
The People’s Budget The People’s Budget
The Congressional Progressive Caucus’s “People's Budget” has been widely ignored. That’s too bad, because the right solutions to our budget crisis are in th...
Apr 21, 2011 / The Editors