Co-economics is the dream being hatched now, but what else -- apart from full employment -- must it include?
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.23.2009 | Politics
If you've spent any time in the Federal bureaucracy - or just a half-hour in the basement of the General Services Administration building - you know: ...
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 03.23.2009 | Politics
To achieve a major reallocation of wealth, those who have more than enough must find sources of contentment other than laying their hands on still more goods.
Bob Greenstein | Posted 03.23.2009 | Politics
Obama's recovery package gets far higher marks on this score by putting money in the hands of people who will spend it, thereby stimulating the economy.
Teryn Norris | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics
Obama and his advisors made a critical miscalculation by allowing the political goal of bipartisanship to trump urgent economic necessity and the need for a new economic philosophy.
Thomas Frank | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics
Never has Beltway orthodoxy looked as clueless and futile as it does today.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist defended his support for President Obama's stimulus plan at a Fort Lauderdale town hall meeting Wednesday, saying that the ...
Rep. Charles A. Gonzalez | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics
To get through these hard times, we need to work together, every one of us, as a country, and this legislation is a solid foundation on which we can build.
Robert Scheer | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics
The only valid criticism to be made of the stimulus bill that Obama signed Tuesday with deserved pride of authorship is that it is too small for the enormous problem at hand.
James Boyce and Paul Abrams | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics
As we say on the sandlots, it's time for Boehner to put up or shut up.
New York Times | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics
The failure of President Obama to win any votes from House Republicans did not go unnoticed by one former House Republican, Ray LaHood, now secretary ...
Stuart Whatley | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics
The desperation of the economic crisis and Jindal's own political ambitions certainly put him between a rock and a hard place.
Van Jones | Posted 03.20.2009 | Green
Pretty soon, Kermit the Frog is going to need a new song to sing. I'm not saying it's easy being green. But it's getting easier.
Marty Kaplan | Posted 03.19.2009 | Media
From the commentariat to the White House chief of staff, the lesson to be learned from the last two weeks, we are told, is that the Obama administration let the Republicans frame the debate over the stimulus.
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner | Posted 03.18.2009 | Politics
While Wall Street rails against restrictions on executive salary bonuses, families are suffering. Some moms are selling their blood plasma to put food on the table.
John Ridley | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics
Shangri-la and Brigadoon and Bipartisan. Three mythical places. One of which few Republicans have seemingly ever heard.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics
Economic failure alone may not spell a one term presidency for Obama. But economic success, even the perception of success, will help insure that Obama won't be another Jimmy Carter.
Dean Garfield | Posted 03.16.2009 | Business
Congress should be commended for passing a plan that has the potential to be stimulative as well as smart. Investments in IT will help lead the way to economic recovery.
Kim Phillips-Fein | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics
As the idea of the New Deal comes back in style, so does opposition to the vision of activist government.
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics
The idea the Republicans want us to believe the "economy" only includes for-profit businesses. Anything that involves investment in public agencies is, therefore, not the economy.
The Nation | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics
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...
AFP | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics
Independent US Senator Joseph Lieberman, an observant Jew, planned to walk to and from any vote on the titantic economic stimulus plan that falls on t...
AP | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — The Rev. Al Sharpton criticized Democrats on Wednesday for "diluting" education portions of the economic stimulus bill in orde...
Jim Wallis | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics
The stars have now aligned in the midst of this economic crisis, and it is precisely the time to address the urgent issues of poverty in America.
Media Matters | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics
In the hour following President Obama's February 9 press conference -- during which he gave a brief address about the economic recovery legislation cu...
Dave Belden | Posted 03.23.2009 | Green