| Jan 17, 2014 | Economy / BusinessAt 8 p.m. on Monday January 13, there was no $1.1 trillion spending bill for fiscal year 2014. At least not one that the public or the vast majority of lawmakers had seen. Less than 70 hours later, large majorities in the House and Senate (332 to 94, and 72 to 26,...
| Jan 15, 2014 | Rights / DemocracyThis piece originally appeared in the Huffington Post. Three judges in D.C. just killed Net Neutrality. This could be the end of the Internet as we know it. But it doesn’t have to be. The big news: A federal appeals court struck down the Federal Communications...
| | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week in OtherWords, Sam Pizzigati explains how inequality weakens the government’s capacity to ever win the War on Poverty and Bob Lord brings the racial wealth divide into focus. Donald Kaul is still on leave. Do you want to make sure you don’t miss...
| | Economy / BusinessAs we commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.’s 85th birthday, we’ve all come to know his dream. Above all else, he dreamed that one day this nation would rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created...
| | Economy / BusinessIt seems like almost every week brings news about Wall Street’s latest sins. “JPMorgan Is Penalized $2 Billion Over Madoff,” blared one recent New York Times headline, when the paper explained that Bernie Madoff, the infamous Ponzi scheme con artist,...
