States are pushing ahead with their own reforms instead of waiting for the president to act.
By David Sirota Jun 13, 2009
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Unemployment in the Golden State hits a record 11.5 percent. Where's our New Western Deal?
By Andrew Leonard
June 19, 2009
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Libertarians and conservatives react to the latest undramatic report on the trust fund's health by marshalling frightening, meaningless numbers.
By Michael Lind
May 19, 2009
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The "ruthless pragmatist" is actually passionate about a central moral issue of modern American life -- the lopsided distribution of political and economic power.
By Robert Reich
May 6, 2009
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It's about revenue and fulfilling campaign promises, but it may also have something to do with getting universal health insurance enacted.
By Robert Reich
May 5, 2009
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Forget about Citigroup, AIG, or General Motors. A Golden State bankruptcy would make them all look like small fry.
By Andrew Leonard
June 10, 2009
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Closed parks, public education in tatters, state workers on the unemployment line: How did we get here?
By Andrew Leonard
June 9, 2009
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Those darn Scandinavians lead the world in "life satisfaction" and super-expensive "nanny states." Could they get any more annoying?
By Andrew Leonard
May 15, 2009
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Deficits don't matter -- and Republicans who are complaining about Barack Obama's spending are hypocrites.
By Joe Conason
March 27, 2009
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An outraged Congress wants blood, but the Obama administration seems to be biding its time, setting itself up for a larger victory.
By Gabriel Winant
March 19, 2009
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Obama spending "$1 billion an hour" and other silliness. Watch me break it down on CNN.
By Joan Walsh
March 16, 2009
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Once, even Republican presidents like Eisenhower and Nixon believed in the public sector. Now, during a national crisis, a Democrat opts for inadequate, neoliberal, private-sector remedies. What happened?
By Michael Lind
March 6, 2009
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Budgets are about priorities, not numbers, and President Obama's first budget marks a sea change from the past eight years.
By Mike Madden
February 27, 2009
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There's fiscal chaos in capitals coast to coast and the stimulus didn't stop it. A tour of the mayhem, from the nearly bankrupt, like California, to the flush.
By Mark Schone
February 26, 2009
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Everyone, from President Obama to the GOP, wants a piece of Honest Abe on his bicentennial. Here's where Abraham Lincoln really stood on the issues.
By Michael Lind
February 12, 2009
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His ties to the former senator may have blinded him to potential ethics problems -- but in the end, the president takes the blame.
By Mike Madden
February 4, 2009
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We need a New Contract with the American people, starting with a sweeping program of modernization that echoes Lincoln and FDR.
By Michael Lind
January 20, 2009
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The South's attempt to kill the North's auto industry is the latest battle in an ongoing conflict. It's time for a Third Reconstruction to put an end to it.
By Michael Lind
December 18, 2008
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Barack Obama promised to institute a windfall profits tax on oil companies, but the policy was quietly removed from his Web site.
By Vincent Rossmeier
December 3, 2008
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The maverick of days past might be deadlocked with Obama now if he hadn't let the Republican right hijack the Straight Talk Express.
By Walter Shapiro
October 29, 2008
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In an exclusive interview, Joe the Plumber's big brother reveals why Obama's plan to "spread the wealth" will turn America into a socialist hell.
By Gary Kamiya
October 21, 2008
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The Republican senator's final debate performance was marked by oddball characters and marginal attacks, as hopes of his political resurrection appeared to fade.
By Walter Shapiro
October 16, 2008
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From a tent city in Reno to a drug dealer's block in Detroit, I saw how Republican rule has hit those living on the American fringe.
By Dan Hoyle
October 13, 2008
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Nothing expresses McCain's ignorance of basic economics like his call to freeze expenditures. Only massive government investment can help us now.
By Joe Conason
October 10, 2008
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With the economy nose-diving, McCain did not achieve the surge he needed, while Obama looked masterly as the candidate of reassurance.
By Walter Shapiro
October 8, 2008
Waiting for Obama
The California Depression
The right's Social Security scare tactics
Obama, the enemy of economic inequality
Why Obama is taking on corporate tax havens
Dick Cheney was right
Will Wall Street tax cheats provoke reform? 
More lies from the GOP
Obama's timid liberalism
This is not George Bush's budget
States of panic
How would Lincoln vote today?
Obama's hopes Daschled
The Next American System
The economic Civil War
How John McCain ran against himself
Bob the Banker speaks out
McCain's last stand
Hard times at the bottom of the Bush economy
The federal government should go on a spending spree
A debate for sobering times
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