Former President Jimmy Carter says the income gap in the United States has increased to the point where members of the middle class resemble the Americans who lived in poverty when he occupied the White House. As USA Today reports, Carter offered his assessment of the nation’s economic challenges at a Habitat for Humanity construction […]
So long as austerity-mongers have their way, “democracy” is just a buzzword. “Can the United States rightly call itself a democracy? As long as Paul Ryan and “Fix the Debt” types are able to push extreme austerity measures, Nation writer John Nichols says, we’re looking more like a “dollarocracy,” where “the ideas that rise to […]
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains how a handwritten note from Franklin Delano Roosevelt demonstrates how he rewrote his own ideas about the American economy and the possibility of a New Deal, and what today’s Republicans could learn from it. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Right wingers who were previously opposed to gay marriage have now “evolved” and support the initiative. The same conservatives who opposed a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants are now saying they’re in favor. Did logic and reason change the collective GOP Mind? No. Public opinion is what changed. How do Americans feel about cutting […]
Over the past month, North Korea has been having a “temper tantrum.” What a lot of “analysts” are playing down are pronouncements from North Korea. For example, North Korean news analyst’ (propagandist’) Minju Joson. Joson wrote: “[The]… opportunity for peacefully settling the DPRK-U.S. relations is no longer available as the U.S. opted for staking its […]