Crossposted with the Center for American Progress. Last week, Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei at Politico reported that the White House planned on maki...
Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
People are saying that health care reform is going to break the bank. No. Health care costs are what might bankrupt us. I am all in favor of reducing those, but railing against the cost of reform while ignoring all the rest is willful ignorance.
Matt Bivens | Posted 10.04.2009 | Politics
$300 million could eradicate smallpox, history's greatest killer of humans -- yet the same sum wouldn't cover the bonus pool for the executives of the insurance company AIG after its great meltdown.
Alexi Giannoulias | Posted 11.15.2009 | Chicago
We are no more insulated from a financial crisis today than we were one year ago. Congress has not changed a single rule, habit or practice to stop this economic calamity from happening again.
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business
The Democrats' health care plan costs half as much as the two major tax cuts pushed by the George W. Bush administration, according to a report issued...
Robert Creamer | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics
The Republicans and the Right Wing establishment will continue to ignore reality, to repeat their slogans, to pander to fear, and stand up for wealthy special interests. But history has rendered its verdict.
Larry Gellman | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics
We have never been more reliant on the generosity of others and less able to act like grown-ups and fend for ourselves than any time since the Revolution.
Media Matters | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics
The Politico and the AP forwarded the false Republican talking point that President Obama's proposals to let the Bush tax cuts for wealthy taxpayers e...
Think Progress | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics
When conservative radio star Rush Limbaugh roots for President Barack Obama's failure, he may be motivated by something other than ideology. A new an...
Larry Gellman | Posted 03.28.2009 | Business
Only Obama and the financial markets are telling us the truth. Not only can we handle it, most Americans are thrilled to finally have a president who is smart enough to know what's going on.
Chris Weigant | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics
Obama has leaked his first budget outline, and it appears he is serious about attempting to fix this tax policy travesty.
Mitchell Bard | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics
If you look closely at what the Republicans are saying, this isn't a debate on the merits of this stimulus legislation, but rather another round of policy battles fought during last year's campaign.
Mitchell Bard | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics
I am losing patience with congressional Democrats' innate instinct to capitulate, something that has been evident since the November 2006 mid-term elections.
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
Is Obama so intent on his goal of passing his economic stimulus plan with at least 20-25 Republican votes in the Senate that he will sacrifice good policy for consensus?
Politico | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics
Allies of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi call her a grand master at "three-level chess" -- a skilled politician who games out her complex relationships wi...
Libby Mitchell | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics
My young niece and nephew are becoming liars. They don't do it mean spiritedly, most of the time they are just trying to make a story better, or win a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics
Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Thursday that she wants to see the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy repealed "as early as possible." The call fo...
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics
When the President came into office, there were about 278 million people living in America. The national debt was $5.6 trillion. Now there are 307 million of us. The national debt is $10.6 trillion.
Bennet Kelley | Posted 02.02.2009 | Politics
The one word Americans use most to describe President Bush is "incompetent." While no compliment, the word fails to convey the condemnation warranted by the last eight years.
Pete Cenedella | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics
The question is: what country does Charlie Gasparino live in? A country where the pressure to make Bush's insane and ineffective tax cuts permanent will grow louder as January 20th approaches.
Larry Gellman | Posted 12.05.2008 | Business
For the last 20 years, I've been hearing that we're in the midst of the Greatest Wealth Transfer in History. The slogan has remained the same but both the beneficiaries of the wealth have changed.
Think Progress | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics
In remarks to the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce today, President Bush continued his rosy rhetoric on the economy. He predicted that in the future...
Robert Creamer | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics
The bottom line is that the top two percent of the population has managed to siphon off all of America's economic growth over the last eight years.
Brett Ashley McKenzie | Posted 10.31.2008 | Chicago
If paying taxes makes you patriotic, Chicagoans should get a memorial built in their honor (or just add Harry Caray's face to Mount Rushmore).
Jackson Williams | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
Wick Allison is a lifelong conservative, and he starkly lays out his bona fides in the piece -- and they're impressive.
Eric Alterman | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media