If Americans struggling to make ends meet can make tough decisions to balance their books, why can't Congress?
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.29.2012
As soon as one pitch ends, another begins. So this ain't over, folks, because every good medicine-show pitchman knows: You gotta keep on offering the crowd that "grand bargain" until you wear 'em down and they buy it.
Posted 12.17.2011
Adweek Editorial Director Michael Wolff is leaving Adweek. The magazine's parent company Prometheus Global Media announced the news on Monday. Jim Coo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- Those who wanted Congress to reauthorize extended unemployment insurance this summer often assumed that Democrats who opposed the benefi...
New York Times | DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- As the health care debate moves to the floor of Congress, most of the serious proposals to fulfill President Obama's original vow to cur...
Molly Secours | Posted 05.25.2011
Dr. Stewart, an OB-GYN, recently lost a 40-year old uninsured cervical cancer patient who refused treatment so that her family wouldn't be financially ruined. She died last week.
The Washington Post | Ezra Klein | Posted 05.25.2011
Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) knows as much about health-care policy as anyone in Congress. He teaches the subject back home in Tennessee, promoted his ow...
FiveThirtyEight | Nate Silver | Posted 05.25.2011
Yesterday, Arkansas' Mike Ross, an influential Blue Dog Democrat, stated that he was opposed to a public option in the Democrats' health care reform p...
HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011
Blue Dog Democrats have defended their reluctance on health care legislation by saying their moderate constituents can't stomach a bill that's too far...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
One of the chief Blue Dog Democrats in the House made the case on Monday that fellow members of his party should get behind health care legislation th...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 05.25.2011
The key conservative House Democrat who backed a public health care option last week appeared to be backing off that pledge Thursday afternoon when he...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
A key conservative House Democrat threw his support on Monday to a public health care option without a so-called "trigger" that could prevent it from ...
Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 05.25.2011
When I was at Harvard Business School, we inherited a joke that has passed from class to class. It goes something like this: the whole HBS education ...
The Nation | Posted 05.25.2011
The House of Representatives is a body that produces few stars, but Jim Cooper of Tennessee is a household name inside the Beltway. David Brooks has c...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
The White House warned on Wednesday that the country would stand to lose five million jobs over the next three years should a stimulus package not mak...
Ami Bera, MD | Posted 04.28.2012