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You Can’t Have Healthy Businesses Without Strong Government

By Dave Johnson On June 12, 2012  

As much as conservatives want to pretend otherwise, you can’t have strong, healthy, prospering businesses without a big, strong government. The kinds of businesses that don’t want a big, strong government are exactly the kinds of businesses that We, the People don’t want.

Government Provides The Soil For Businesses To Thrive

Government creates the “public [...]

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Sarah Palin And Boeing CEO Tell Government Who The Boss Is

By Dave Johnson On May 12, 2011  

What can a democracy like ours do when giant companies say, “Rules? We don’t need no stinkin’ rules! We don’t got to pay you no taxes!” and “We will just move out of your puny country if you try to tell us what to do.”

Government is beginning to enforce labor laws again, [...]

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In the End, Fukushima a Gift to the Nuclear Energy Industry?

By Russ Wellen On March 21, 2011  

The Fukushima reactors’ survival of both an earthquake and tsunami with minimal radiation release can be a powerful selling point for nuclear power plants.

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Analysis: Dillard’s and an unsatisfying response on the Heroic Media controversy

By Sam Smith On March 17, 2011  

Earlier today I offered some comments on the trending controversy surrounding Dillard’s and its involvement in an upcoming Houston event staged by anti-abortion advocate Heroic Media. That article noted some parallels with last year’s dust-up involving Target and Tom Emmer, a social reactionary running for Minnesota governor. My friend and colleague, [...]

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Five Signs You’re Getting Out of Debt Too Fast

By James Boyce On March 1, 2011  

There have been some tentative signs that the economy may be, well not quite recovering, but not falling as fast. One of these often cited is that the American consumer came back and shopped this past holiday season.

“It was the first real Christmas in years.” One retailer exclaimed.

So, are Americans earning more? Are [...]

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Union-Busting Is Market Manipulation and Wage Theft

By Joshua Holland On February 25, 2011  

Like all progressives, we obsess on the quest for good ‘framing’ quite a bit around here (when I lived in DC, even the cabbies and doormen were reading Lakoff).

So, here’s a frame. Over at AlterNet, I have a feature up arguing that labor markets only work when workers can bargain collectively. As it stands, [...]

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A Blueprint For Economic Disaster

By Adam Lambert On February 24, 2011  

Make no mistake – the demonization of public workers is just the latest in a long series of distractions by the right wing and economic elite as they pick the pockets of the “other 95% of Americans”. This coordinated approach is nothing new, but the agenda of wealth theft is taking on a new form [...]

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Will the Right Overplay Their Hand?

By James Boyce On February 23, 2011  

There is no question that the Right has been financed by a select and small group of donors for close to forty years now; significant business players like Bob Perry and the Koch Brothers who more than likely don’t have a political bone in their bodies, but look at the their investment in politics as smart business.

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Issue of Pay for Bloggers Bigger Than Just Arianna’s Windfall

By Russ Wellen On February 23, 2011  

The term “citizen journalism” is not an excuse to withhold pay from bloggers. The Huffington Post has never even made a token attempt at figuring out how to pay bloggers.

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