The Lame-Duck Economy by Paul Krugman in The New York Times, 11-20-08 Everyone’s talking about a new New Deal, for obvious reasons. In 2008, as in 1932, a long era of Republican political...

By Robert Parry, Consortium News via alternet.org, 11-21-08 ...Looking back over the past three decades, the cost of the Left’s complacency on media – i.e. its failure to create a reliable way to get important facts to the public and to counter the Right’s propaganda machine – has...

by Robert Creamer on HuffingtonPost.com, 11-19-08 As the debate over federal help for the auto industry has heated up, we've heard a lot from those who believe that the problem with the auto industry is "bloated union contracts." They see those contracts as a reason not to provide federal...

Chronically ill Americans suffer far worse care than their counterparts in seven other industrial nations, according to a new study by the Commonwealth Fund, a New York-based foundation that has pioneered in international comparisons. It is the latest telling evidence that the dysfunctional...

By Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times, 11-18-08 After making millions of phone calls and knocking on millions of doors to elect Barack Obama , the nation's labor unions have begun a new campaign: to get the new president and Congress to pass legislation that would make it easier for...

by Jeremy Scahill in The Nation via CommonDreams.org 11-17-08 After more than five years of rampant violence and misconduct carried out by the massive army of private corporate contractors in Iraq--actions that have gone totally unpunished under any system of law--the...

By Nicholas von Hoffman, The Nation via Alternet.org, 11-17-08 With his latest policy switch to buying stock in banks and other companies, Henry Paulson has more zigs and zags to his credit than a fox trying to escape a pack of hounds. The fox and the hounds, of course, have a clear idea of...

Why Aren't the Dems Doing Something About It? By Naomi Klein in The Nation via ICH, 11-14-08 T he more details emerge, the clearer it becomes that Washington's handling of the Wall Street bailout is not merely incompetent. It is borderline criminal.In a moment of high panic in...

from The Center for American Progress, 11-14-08 Conservatives spent the last year railing against the United States' 35 percent corporate tax rate. What they never mentioned is that this 35 percent corporate rate is so riddled with loopholes and shelters that the United States...

from The Center for American Progress, 11-14-08 Earlier this week, Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) defended an ad he ran against Max Cleland in 2002 that linked Cleland -- a triple amputee Vietnam veteran -- to Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. Chambliss called it "a lightweight ad " and...

By Silja J.A. Talvi, In These Times via alternet.org, 11-13-08... Medical and poll-based evidence indicates that we seriously need relief. Work-related stress can lead to sudden heart attacks, obesity, anxiety and depression. A World Health Organization and Harvard Medical School study last...

PUBLIC WORKS, WORK November 11, 2008by Jim Hightower on jimhightower.com Here’s an idea: Instead of wasting our tax money on Wall Street slicks who don’t use it to help anyone but themselves, why don’t we use our public funds to build something in America? Like what?...

Lobbyists Swarm the Treasury for a Helping of the Bailout Pie By MARK LANDLER and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK The New York Times, 11-12-08 When the government said it would spend $700 billion to rescue the nation’s financial industry, it seemed to be an ocean of money....

McCAIN TO CAMPAIGN FOR CHAMBLISS AFTER DECRYING HIS SMEAR TACTICS Last week Sen. Saxby Chambliss's (R-GA) campaign announced that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) would be campaigning for Chambliss in Georgia's runoff senate election. McCain's involvement is surprising given his previous denouncement...

by John Schmitt and Hye Jin Rho of The Center for Economic and Policy Research, 11-5-08 In his closing remarks during the final presidential debate of 1980, Ronald Reagan famously asked the American people: "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?"The table...

By Larry Beinhart, AlterNet, 11-11-08 The MythD o tax cuts stimulate the economy? Yes. Tax cuts allow people to keep more of their own money. Therefore, they have more to invest and spend into the economy, and they have more money to start business and create jobs, therefore also helping to...

Franklin Delano Obama? by Paul Krugman in The New York Times, 11-10-08 Suddenly, everything old is New Deal again. Reagan is out; F.D.R. is in. Still, how much guidance does the Roosevelt era really offer for today’s world? The answer is, a lot. But Barack Obama should learn from...

What an Amazing Moment! By William Greider, TheNation.com via alternet.org, 11-5-08We are inheritors of this momentous victory, but it was not ours. The laurels properly belong to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and all of the other martyrs who died for civil rights. And to millions more...

So Little Time, So Much Damage editorial in The New York Times, 11-4-08 While Americans eagerly vote for the next president, here’s a sobering reminder: As of Tuesday, George W. Bush still has 77 days left in the White House — and he’s not wasting a minute. President Bush’s...

Today, Vice President Cheney’s hometown newspaper , the Casper Star-Tribune in Wyoming, endorsed Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) for president. The paper endorsed Bush-Cheney in 2004 . Today’s editorial states:

The next occupant of the White House will inherit a national economy...