Month: September 2010

The strategy should be very simple. If nothing happens in Congress, the Bush tax cuts will expire on the rich and the poor alike. Some kind of bill has to pass in order for us to avoid a tax hike on everyone who pays income...

Because they don’t have enough money quite yet (excerpted from from The Great Divergence by Timothy Noah at Slate): All my life I’ve heard Latin America described as a failed society (or collection of failed...

Rahm (“Fuck Progressives”, “Fuck the UAW”) Emanuel likely will bolt his cozy White House job, where he has helped preside over a fiasco, and will return to Chicago to run to succeed Daley as...

Cross-posted at Winning Progressive Meet Michael McCallister, CEO of Humana health insurance company. Mr. McCallister is different from you and me. In 2008, he received a salary of $1,017,038 and total compensation of...

You can’t call a closed-down Burlington Coat Factory building in lower Manhattan “the ruins of the World Trade Center.” If it was the ruins of the World Trade Center it would be ruined. It would have been...