Eight Million

The president held a press conference this afternoon to announce that the final number of health care exchange enrollees, as...

Bill Foster: Thank You, Paul Krugman

I was interested to see this in my in-box this morning, from Congressman Bill Foster.  It’s nice that he, too,...

Jon Stewart on Paul Ryan’s Free Lunch

Here’s Jon Stewart on Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) misuse of the school lunch story at last weekend’s convention for “conservatives.” The...

Social Mobility? Not the Right Question

James Surowiecki makes a valuable point (emphasis added): …in any capitalist society most people are bound to be part of...

Affordable Care Act Gives Workers Freedom; Republicans Enraged

Paul Waldman captures it succinctly: “Some Americans will leave the labor force when they can do so and still have...

Monstrous GOP, Part the 3,216th

I continue to be at a loss as to how any decent person, with even the slightest bit of concern...

Obama Takes the Lead on Climate Change

President Obama’s speech last week (video, transcript) on climate change was important in all kinds of ways.  The steps he’s...

Fed Chair Bernanke: Congress, Get Your Foot Off The Brake!

The evidence is piling up more and more deeply that austerity (i.e., cutting spending) is the wrong policy for the...

National Debt: A Short History (Spoiler: GOP created it to force cuts in social programs)

Professor Krugman, in knocking down some common excuses for not providing the fiscal boost our economy should be getting right...

Invasion of the Austerians

…courtesy of Professor Krugman: