Friday Talking Points [30] -- "Mainstream Media Out To Lunch" Edition
If every port on the West Coast of the United States of America was shut down because of a terrorist threat, do you think it would make the news? So d...
If every port on the West Coast of the United States of America was shut down because of a terrorist threat, do you think it would make the news? So d...
A. Siegel | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics
It is worth thinking about the difference between greening our choices (and fostering a more sustainable lifestyle/economy) and using Green as an excuse for ever more consumption.
Jeff Madrick | Posted 04.08.2008 | Business
What to remember about the silly debate over the nomenclature is that recession affects most of us. The median American wage in 2010 could very well be what it was in 1995 or 1996.
Jared Bernstein and Nancy Cleeland | Posted 03.07.2008 | Business
We can ease the pain of this self-inflicted recession by reviving some other basic American concepts, such as the idea that government can serve a role in mediating a heartless economy.
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 02.09.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — Despite remarkably quick passage, the economic aid plan and its cash rebates may come too late to prevent a recession this year. Fo...
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.01.2008 | Politics
This column is dedicated to the idea that Democrats can learn to use talking points as effectively as Republicans often do. This idea annoys many who...
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 01.28.2008 | Business
Are we better than 30 years ago? The answer is a thundering no. The solution is not a piddling $150 billion fiscal stimulus package that helps those who don't need it much.
Dan Brown | Posted 01.28.2008 | Politics
Mind-bogglingly, the G.O.P. presidential front-runners are embracing this man; John McCain is running on Bush's military policy and Mitt Romney is running on Bush's economic policy.
AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 01.26.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — Most taxpayers could expect a rebate of up to $600 starting in mid-May under the economic aid plan set to go through Congress withi...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.25.2008 | Politics
The Times says that both parties are "pleased" by the plan and that Bush made a "big concession" with this stimulus bill. What "big concession?"
Jacki Zehner | Posted 01.25.2008 | Business
Mortgage giants are in deep trouble already. To include them in quickfixonomics would be an irresponsible act.
David Sirota | Posted 01.25.2008 | Politics
Whenever politicians of both parties start praising each other on an economic issue, hold onto your wallet, because you are about to get fleeced.
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 01.25.2008 | Politics
The real price of the deal is the continued misdirection of the economy and miseducation of the country. We need what the stimulus package excludes.
Philip Slater | Posted 01.23.2008 | Business
The executive branch of our government operates on authoritarian principles that most corporations abandoned decades ago as too cumbersome.
New York Times | Joseph E. Stiglitz | Posted 01.23.2008 | Business
America's economy is headed for a major slowdown. Whether there is a recession (two quarters of negative growth) is less important than the fact that ...
Deborah Siegel and Jacki Zehner | Posted 01.18.2008 | Business
Help America spend our way out of a problem created by too much spending? Only in America.
Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack...
John McCain's famously cozy relationship with the press is getting a bit testy. Taking questions in...
**UPDATE 7/25** ThinkProgress now reports that the bar...
There is one more John McCain gaffe that...
As we have observed throughout the last several years,...
In a flagrant political act, the State Department has...
Major news organizations are drawing...
"Extra" has learned that Heather Mills' publicist, Michele Elyzabeth, has...
Will the mainstream media cover the John Edwards love child scandal put out there by the...
I have a wait problem. I hate to wait. When...
WASHINGTON — Congress approved mortgage relief for 400,000...
Ashcroft Claims Waterboarding...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics