Bulwark of Ignorance

Bulwark of Ignorance

The other day, House Speaker John Boehner accused Barack Obama of being mean to the Republican Party. Our president, he said, was trying to “annihilate” the party and “shove us into the dustbin of history.” Would that it were so. If ever a...
Don’t Cut Our Kids Out of the Budget

Don’t Cut Our Kids Out of the Budget

Barack Obama won his re-election fight because Americans who are committed to moving forward turned out in record numbers to vote, especially in battleground states. But we can’t go forward unless Congress sits down and makes the hard decisions required to...
The Classy Election of 2012

The Classy Election of 2012

An Occupy Wall Street sign said it best: “They only call it class warfare when we fight back.” Over four long decades, American working families and poor people have seen wages stagnate, social services slashed, and our unions attacked. Since the Great...