Political Figures

Coal Company CEO Dreams of Romney as President, Jim Inhofe as Head of EPA Coal Company CEO Dreams of Romney as President, Jim Inhofe as Head of EPA

Coal companies are using a number of tactics to help boost Mitt Romney's chances this November. 

Oct 9, 2012 / Lee Fang

Mitt Romney’s Twentieth-Century Worldview Mitt Romney’s Twentieth-Century Worldview

The GOP candidate’s necon foreign policy would move America backwards. 

Oct 9, 2012 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

More NAFTA Anyone? Romney Positions as Free-Trade ‘Champion’ More NAFTA Anyone? Romney Positions as Free-Trade ‘Champion’

The GOP nominee is all-in for low-road trade policies that cut wages and benefits in the US and abroad.

Oct 9, 2012 / John Nichols

Bernie Sanders: Obama and Biden Need to Get Specific About Social Security Bernie Sanders: Obama and Biden Need to Get Specific About Social Security

Do vague statements on Social Security now set the stage for “grand compromises” in the future?

Oct 8, 2012 / John Nichols

Mitt Romney Declares War on Big Bird Mitt Romney Declares War on Big Bird

Mitt Romney has never been a champion of the Little Guy but in the first Presidential debate last week the former Massachusetts governor showed his true colors.

Oct 8, 2012 / Timothy Patrick McCarthy

Sigh No More: Obama, Romney Leave No Room to Argue Sigh No More: Obama, Romney Leave No Room to Argue

Both would rather talk about anything but Wall Street’s financing and control of both parties.

Oct 5, 2012 / Robert Scheer

Ralph Nader, ‘Lone Ranger,’ Rides Again Ralph Nader, ‘Lone Ranger,’ Rides Again

Nader’s The Seventeen Solutions is a subversive primer that should be read in every high school civics class.

Oct 4, 2012 / Books & the Arts / William Greider

Romney’s Obscene Posturing As A Wall Street Critic Romney’s Obscene Posturing As A Wall Street Critic

The Republican candidate is trying to shield Wall Street from regulation, while simultaneously pretending to be a reformer.

Oct 4, 2012 / George Zornick

Turkey’s NATO Trap for Obama Turkey’s NATO Trap for Obama

The president needs his famous cool in the Syria crisis.

Oct 4, 2012 / Bob Dreyfuss

Jim Lehrer Gets Pwned Jim Lehrer Gets Pwned

In an era of post-truth, asymmetrically polarized politics, Lehrer and PBS have never seemed so sad and ill-equipped. 

Oct 4, 2012 / Richard Kim

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