The administration’s recent trade agreement with Korea, Colombia, and Panama is expected to destroy more than 200,000 American jobs.
Obama Administration
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On Borrowed Time
President Obama’s new student loan plan isn’t enough to help students saddled with debt.
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Campus Cash
Teacher evaluations are becoming big business for private companies
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Businesspeople Don’t Always Make Good Politicians
The Huffington Post has early access to the Walter Isaacson biography of Steve Jobs, which – among many other things – reveals the Apple CEO’s distaste for President Obama and his policies: When he [Jobs] finally relented and they met at the Westin San Francisco Airport, Jobs was characteristically blunt. He seemed to have transformed […]
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Blame and How to Give It
That Senate Republicans used the filibuster to kill a Democratic stimulus bill isn’t a surprise – at this point, Republicans have all but announced their plan to keep the economy from significantly improving, and as a result, slash the tires on President Obama’s bid for re-election. What comes as a surprise is the extent to […]
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Occupy the Rules Committee
For last two months, we’ve been engaged in something of a natural experiment to see if presidential speechifying-in this case, a consistent focus on jobs-is enough to move public opinion in a progressive direction and create avenues for legislative success. So far, that hasn’t been the case. Instead, Republicans have taken their usual position of […]
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The Medicare Bind
Democrats should defend Medicare. But if they want to accomplish much else, they will have to change it.
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All the President’s Frenemies
In publicly attacking Obama are Tavis Smiley and Cornel West upholding the tradition of MLK or acting out of personal pique—or both?
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Forget the Super Congress
A lot of punditry today is being directed at the super-committee of 12 that the debt-ceiling deal establishes, ostensibly to bring our fiscal house in order. But God knows why. The idea that the Republicans on the committee will accede to any tax increases — after House Republicans read John Boehner the riot act for […]