Weekly Audit: Standoff Continues in WisconsinBy Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger The 14 Democratic state senators who fled Wisconsin to th...
While the conflict over basic labor rights continues in Madison, sparking support from across the country, we shouldn't lose sight of the other side of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's agenda: slashing investment in the state's future.
The tea-party-enabled Wisconsin Legislature is working overtime to protect its governor. On the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that protes...
You can't have the benefits of selling to a rich society without the costs of maintaining a rich society. It's either the unions or taxes. Take your pick.
Before long our scorched earth politics will again be rejected, and public schools will again become forces in creating an educated citizenry.
Collective bargaining is a vehicle to improve services -- whether in education or other areas -- and it would hurt both workers and those they serve if that important right was lost.
MONEY has always been the most corrupting influence in our politics, a fact that is now on full display in Republican-controlled state houses across the midwest that are voting against public employees' right to collective bargaining.
The disparity between regular Americans struggling to make ends meet and billion dollar bonuses has never been more stark.
Sitting in for Arianna, Joe Conason and show regular Mary debate whether the 2-1 polls favoring public employee collective bargaining will force Gov. Walker to blink first. And should we attack yet another Arab country?
Walker calls this a "budget repair bill" needed to fix a hole this year. And the media dutifully repeat that language, never questioning whether it's accurate, despite abundant evidence that it is not.
Gov. Walker may be sending them $100-a-day fines and arrest warrants, but take a look at some Facebook and phone messages real people are sending the brave Wisconsin 14.
Unfortunately it's no shock that America's big insurance companies make huge amounts of money and then spend millions to own the Republican Party, which then protects their ability to make excessive profits and pay bloated CEO salaries.
Teachers, who play more of a role in economic development than anybody who wants to take a chance on Wall Street, are being vilified and targeted unfairly -- nobody goes into teaching to get rich.
There are many shoes yet to fall in this dramatic battle in Wisconsin. Will Papa Fitzgerald show for work in epaulettes? Will the governor start laying off 13,000 workers as promised, using real people with real lives as pawns in his political game?
It's time the Democrats recognize that the GOP has declared war on them and their core constituencies. The cower and cave strategy has never worked in the past, and it won't work now.
The GOP is vainly searching for a qualified Presidential Candidate! With the elections less than two years away Republicans are still sifting through...
Prolonged and systematic attacks on any group in an effort to take away their rights, voice, and respect in society are a hallmark of the bullying style in American politics.
When it comes to winning, Republicans are like Charlie Sheen. That is, they think they are WINNING, but they're obviously not. But don't take my word ...
The Republican master story blames those workers who still cling to middle class jobs for America's problems. Obama needs to put forth a more accurate narrative.