The following post is by Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner:Am I getting this right? The same Republicans who spent years castigating President Biden as barely mentally competent now are… Read More
The charts above are from a Gallup Poll -- done between May 1st and 24th of a nationwide sample of 1,011 adults, with a 4 point margin of error.State legislatures dominated by Republicans ha… Read More
The following post is by Robert Reich (pictured). In it, he lists five things the debt deal tells us about the future:Now that President Biden has signed into law the debt-ceiling deal, what… Read More
By Zeesham Aleem at MSNBC.com:In a curious turn of events, former President Donald Trump said Thursday he doesn’t like the term “woke” anymore. His remarks may ha… Read More
The chart above is from the Yahoo News / YouGov Poll -- done between May 25th and 30th of a nationwide sample of 1520 adults, with a margin of error of 3.1 point Read More
From the editorial board of The New York Times:Gov. Greg Abbott, Republican of Texas, is expected to sign a bill in the next few days that would make it immeasurably more difficult for… Read More
The Labor Department has released the unemployment report for the months of May. It shows that a healthy 339,000 jobs were created in the month. Due to a rise in the civilian work force, the… Read More
Republicans like to claim they are strong supporters of the military. The same can't be said for Alabama's GOP senator. Tommy Tuberville is holding up all military promotions because of his… Read More
The idiots in Washington don't seem to understand the real cause of today's rising prices. Robert Reich, in this post, tries to explain it for them in simple language:Okay, the House has pas… Read More
These charts reflect the results of a recent University of Texas at Tyler Poll -- done between May 10th and 21st of 1,413 registered Texas voters, with a 3 point margin of error.The results… Read More
Which Republican candidate is the worst demagogue? Personally, I think it's Trump. But in this post, Robert Reich makes a good case for DeSantis: As you know, Congress has just a few da… Read More
These charts are fro a Monmouth University Poll -- done between May 18th and 24th of a nationwide sample of 655 Republican voters, with a 5.5 point margin of error. Read More
From former Labor Secretary Robert Reich:Republican leaders have mastered the art of manufacturing crises to divert the public’s attention from the real crisis of our era —… Read More
Republicans would like to blame rising food prices on President Biden, claiming it is due to inflation. But that is wrong. Inflation is not the cause. It's just the cover used by conglomerat… Read More
The useless and stupid debt limit needs to be ended for good. Here is how the editorial board of The Washington Post puts it:Finally, President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Cali… Read More
The following post about defense spending is by the editorial board of The Washington Post. They Are right!War and peace have one unlikely thing in common: It isn’t hard to write… Read More
The following is part of a post by Robert Reich:Twitter started to become a right-wing media hot spot when Elon lifted bans on thousands of accounts that had spread disinformation… Read More
The following post is by Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner:What is happening in Washington is bananas.Of course we could use much more colorful, or dignified, language. Many in the… Read More
The charts above are from the Harvard CAPS / Harris Poll -- done on May 17th and 18th of a nationwide sample of 2,004 registered voters (no margin of error given) Read More
The following post is by Michelle Goldberg in The New York Times:It’s increasingly clear that it’s not safe to be pregnant in states with total abortion bans. Since the end of Ro… Read More
The chart above is from a Monmouth University Poll -- done between March 16th and 20th of a national sample of 542 registered voters identifying at Democrats, with a 6.3 point margin of erro… Read More
Ukrainians don’t talk about what will happen “after the war.” They talk about what will happen “after the victory.” That’s how confident they are. In the… Read More
I agree with this post by Robert Reich. President Biden should ignore GOP demands and keep paying America's bills.I want to start today with a bit of history that sheds some light on w… Read More
The chart above reflects the results of the latest Economist / YouGov Poll -- done between May 13th and 16th of a nationwide sample of 1,500 adults (including 1,302 registered voters). The m… Read More
The following is by E.J. Dionne, Jr. in The Washington Post:The moment negotiations over the debt ceiling with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy started, it was obvious President… Read More
This is the latest e-mail Senator Elizabeth Warren sent to her supporters: I’m running for re-election because although we’ve made tremendous progress as a movement (like ge… Read More