Are the majority of Americans lazy and averse to work? Would they prefer not to work and to enjoy a free ride from the government? How we answer this question, or how congressional leaders answer it, has a lot to do with what is really life-or-death legislation coming out of Washington, particularly with regards to…
A Trade Promotion Authority bill passed the U.S. Senate 62-37 Friday night, with 48 Republicans and 14 Democrats voting for the measure.
Another syndicated scribe has taken to slashing and burning unions. He’s a Tribune News Service columnist. Just another highly paid, right-wing propagandist.
President Obama tells the people to ask their representatives why Congress won’t raise the minimum wage for everyone, after he raised it for federal contractors.
There is a concerted effort to raid public sector employee pensions to give corporations and the wealthy tax breaks that was the purview of Republicans but is gaining support among some state-level Democrats.
Will Senator Elizabeth Warren’s political economic populist movement change US economics and politics now and in the future?
Market-based educational reform is an utter failure, and yet we still can’t shake the nasty remnants of its bad policy influence
President Obama is putting Republicans in a no-win position with the public by proposing to cut the corporate tax rate in exchange for reforming the corporate tax code.
A carefully planned, long term campaign to subvert democracy is the sole intention of GOP governors, ALEC, and their puppet masters Charles and David Koch.
Most Republicans would rather we completely forget how bad the economy was in 2008, yet have nominated someone who will repeat those policies, it is Obama who has America on a healthy economic path.