Two months ago, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner suddenly started talking about “restoring the 40 hour workweek,” which they said the Affordable Care Act had destroyed. It was about as misleading an argument as you’d imagine; what it has to do with is the fact that the ACA defines “full-time” work as 30 hours or […]
Obama Administration
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Don’t Starve the Palestinian Authority. Replace It With a Real State
Cutting U.S. aid to the Palestinians would mean heaping one mistake on another.
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Today’s Charts
As any Republican will tell you, the federal government is an enormous beast that grows bigger by the year, feasting upon our precious freedoms for sustenance as it expands into every corner of our lives-and it gets particularly bad when the Democrats are in charge. While there are a number of ways we could measure […]
Posted inEconomic Policy
Meet Austerity’s Kissing Cousin: A Terrible Trade Deal
It is a mark of the delusion of Europe’s leaders that the E.U. is putting its chips on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
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Mitch McConnell Is Still Mitch McConnell
With the new Congress about to take office, I suspect we’re going to be seeing a lot of discussion about how Republicans, and Mitch McConnell in particular, are charting a new, productive path, now that they “need to show they can govern.” Like this article in today’s Washington Post: Mitch McConnell has an unusual admonition […]
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Mitch McConnell Is Still Mitch McConnell
The strategy may shift, but he’s the same politician he always was.
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Torn Between Two Presidents
A fair accounting seems to put Clinton far behind Obama when it comes to accomplishing liberal goals.
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Torn Between Two Presidents
In the 2008 primary campaign, there was a moment when Democrats began to debate Bill Clinton’s legacy. At one point, Barack Obama seemed to minimize the significance of the Clinton presidency when he said, “Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill […]
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Obama Compared to Prior Presidents On Job Creation, In Graphs
He’s looking pretty good, and getting better.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Meet the Congressional Mouthpieces of the Anti-Cuba Lobby
They hail from both parties, but they have one thing in common: something called the U.S. Cuba-Democracy PAC.
