Month: June 2008

Remember subprime mortgages? They’ve been nudged out of the headlines by gas prices lately, but they — and the crisis catalyzed by the collapse of the subprime market — are still news. Bears Stearns (Remember them?) is...

Via Taegan Goddard: A new Greenberg Quinlan Rosner poll commissioned by NARAL finds that once “balanced information” about Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain’s respective positions on abortion are...

Crossposted from MY LEFT WING I hope I live to see the day when the exclusions of gays from the federal, state and societal benefits and responsibilities of marriage will seem as foreign, repugnant and indefensible as did the...

Columbia and Harvard offer excellent educations, but they can’t compare with the street. “The best education I’ve ever had was my work as a community organizer because it taught me ordinary people can do extraordinary...

Last Thursday, the Republicans filibustered Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus’s Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008. Among other things, the bill would prevent a 10% cut in Medicare payments to...