| Oct 23, 2013 | Economy / BusinessIt’s been a long couple of weeks. Our government just wasted billions of dollars on a shutdown that accomplished nothing and dragged down economic growth as a close encounter with the debt ceiling loomed. And the deal that ended this impasse sets Washington up...
| Oct 16, 2013 | Environment / HealthAnd now, Dr. Hightower offers this advice for improving your mental health: Don’t fume about the GOP’s lunatic effort to kill health care reform — just laugh at their farcical show. Take Sen. Ted Cruz’s 21-hour blabathon, in which he said he would...
| | 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 2, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyThere’s a lot of talk about how polarized the country is today. Sometimes that polarization is more than about partisan politics — it’s about real differences in values. Take the House Republicans’ recent votes to deny food and health care to...
