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The Last Act in Alternative-Reality Land
Occasionally, a single incident can characterize an entire era. Rosa Parks sits down near the front of a bus. Gary Cooper drops his badge...
Jay Murdock
Oct 6, 20133 min read
The Food Stamp Fight: Partisan Politics vs. People’s Right to Survive
Rep. Frederica Wilson U.S. Congresswoman from Florida’s 24th District Posted: 09/20/2013 8:12 am With millions of Americans out of work...
Jay Murdock
Sep 22, 20132 min read
Why the GOP Is Suddenly the Party of Peace
Earl Ofari Hutchinson; Author and political analyst Posted: 09/08/2013 12:44 pm The stunning number of GOP law makers that are vehemently...
Jay Murdock
Sep 8, 20134 min read
Why Congress’s Gridlock Doesn’t Paralyze Government but Gridlocks Democracy
ROBERT B. REICH – Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy; University of California at Berkeley, Former Secretary of Labor – August 15,...
Jay Murdock
Aug 22, 20134 min read
Machiavelli Never Lied
As Miles Sees It We’ve had such an overwhelming response to our post – “Santorum’s Wrong: There Is Such a Thing as a ‘Liberal’...
Jay Murdock
Mar 1, 20125 min read
As Poverty Rate Rises and Unemployment Persists, Americans Need a New “New Deal”
C. Nicole Mason – Assistant Professor, Robert F. Wagner ; Graduate School of Public Service at NYU Posted: 9/13/11 04:32 PM ET For many,...
Jay Murdock
Sep 15, 20112 min read
Stop Bashing Obama
Mark Juergensmeyer Author, ‘Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence’ – Posted: 8/15/11 12:26 PM ET The...
Jay Murdock
Aug 16, 20113 min read
Big Oil’s Political Ploy
William S. Becker – Energy and Climate Policy Expert, Natural Capitalism Solutions Posted: 05/13/11 02:09 PM ET Whatever else we might...
Jay Murdock
May 15, 20117 min read
House Republicans’ Constitutional Ignorance
Chris Weigant: Political Writer and Blogger at ChrisWeigant.com The Tea Party Republicans in the House of Representatives are supposed to...
Jay Murdock
Mar 31, 20115 min read
One Year Later: Health Care Reform a Law Worth Keeping
Wendell Potter: Former insurance company executive; author Posted: March 24, 2011 08:45 AM Is the health care reform law a good deal for...
Jay Murdock
Mar 24, 20114 min read
Instead of Bombing Dictators, Stop Selling Them Bombs
By Medea Benjamin and Charles Davis When all you have is bombs, everything starts to look like a target. And so after years of providing...
Jay Murdock
Mar 23, 20114 min read
An Illuminating Expedition to the World of the Uninsured
Former insurance company executive; author Posted: February 17, 2011 08:57 AM As Congressional Republicans seek ways to starve the new...
Jay Murdock
Feb 17, 20115 min read
Kauffman Foundation: The Rules For Growth
Robert E. Litan – Vice President of Research & Policy, Kauffman FoundationPosted: February 9, 2011 09:35 AM The U.S. economy is...
Jay Murdock
Feb 9, 20113 min read
Size Matters: The GOP and Health Care
Ethan Rome; Executive Director, Health Care for America Now Posted: January 17, 2011 11:59 PM During the health care debate in 2009 and...
Jay Murdock
Jan 18, 20113 min read
Repealing Health Care Reform Will Hurt Our Country
Sen. Barbara Boxer – Democratic U.S. Senator from California Posted: January 14, 2011 01:49 PM Before House Republicans vote next week to...
Jay Murdock
Jan 18, 20113 min read
ObamaCare? You Bet He Does
Communications, media and political strategist Posted: January 4, 2011 09:48 AM Americans have known our health care system was broken...
Jay Murdock
Jan 4, 20112 min read
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