| Oct 16, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyRemember that inspiring 50th birthday party for the March on Washington at the end of the summer? Unfortunately, those moving speeches didn’t slow the emergence of a new Jim Crow system. The Supreme Court kicked off its celebration of the occasion a month early...
| Oct 9, 2013 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week in OtherWords, Ryan Alexander points out that Congress could have averted the government shutdown had it done “its constitutionally mandated job” while Marc Morial warns that unless lawmakers raise the debt ceiling, an economic disaster could...
| | Rights / DemocracyFifty years ago, two progressive former Kennedy administration officials opened the doors of the Institute for Policy Studies. Ever since, IPS public scholars have channeled our independence — from government and corporate money— to blend fresh, bold ideas with...
| | Economy / BusinessThe debate over America’s federal budget is getting stale — and getting us nowhere, as the latest government shutdown depressingly reminds us. Political obsession over budget deficits has now morphed into legislative extortion. Today, more than ever, we need to...
| Oct 2, 2013 | Economy / BusinessA hundred years ago, on October 3, 1913, President Woodrow Wilson signed into law the first modern federal tax on income. John Buenker has been writing about the events that led to that signing for a good bit of the last 50 years. His 1985 book, The Income Tax and the...
