June 17, 2013
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Last week, when thousands of Greeks took to the streets to protest the Greek government’s austerity driven shut-down the state-run television broadcaster, ERT, I asked whether the latest European backlash against austerity would begin to turn the tide against austerity. … Continue reading
June 14, 2013
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Today I had the honor of being one of few men to join the panel on WETA’s “To The Contrary,” with Bonnie Erbe, for a Father’s Day edition of the normally all-female news analysis program. (The show will air later … Continue reading
June 13, 2013
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The IMF has “acknowledged major mistakes” in Greece’s bailout, and admitted to seriously underestimating the severity of Greece’s downturn. Yet the Greek government continues with draconian spending cuts, in order to comply with the austerity measure’s based upon those ”major … Continue reading
June 10, 2013
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The last couple of months in Washington have been punctuated by burst of excitement as policymakers and pundits reacted to what to them was good news for the economy. The stock market is up. Consumer spending is up. Housing is booming again. … Continue reading
June 4, 2013
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Late last week, I was invited to be a debater in today’s New York Times “Room for Debate” online discussion. The debate is focused on last week’s news that mothers are now the primary breadwinners in 40 percent of American … Continue reading
May 22, 2013
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President Obama has promised Oklahoma “everything that it needs right away” to begin the process of recovering and rebuilding, after the massive tornado touched down in the state on Monday, devastating the cities of Monroe and Newcastle. Already hundreds of … Continue reading
May 20, 2013
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Did you know that Washington, DC is the 9th most expensive American city to live in? Did you also know that thousands of private sector workers whose jobs are supported by taxpayer dollars don’t earn enough to live in the … Continue reading
May 16, 2013
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Yesterday I wrote about how obstructionist Republican tactics are hollowing out our government, hobbling its agencies, and diminishing its responsiveness to the needs and concerns of ordinary Americans. Nowhere is this more apparent than in our court system, where Republican … Continue reading
May 16, 2013
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It’s official. Minimum wage workers going on strike is no longer a mere trend. It’s a movement. Not that there was ever any doubt, after minimum wage workers in the fast food and retail sectors of major cities like New … Continue reading
May 14, 2013
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Republicans in Congress have a new tactic for shrinking government: making sure that nobody’s there to run it. Well into the president’s second term, an alarming and unprecedented number of vital positions in every branch of government remain vacant. As … Continue reading
May 7, 2013
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If, like me, you’re a working parent or any other adult struggling to balance the demands of work and family, you know the two biggest challenges to pulling off that balancing act: Time and Money. We never have enough of … Continue reading
April 30, 2013
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Reports of austerity’s demise are greatly exaggerated. Yes, austerity has been on the ropes recently, since it was revealed the whole thing was based on a sloppy spreadsheet by a couple of academic austerians. Before that the IMF denounced and … Continue reading
April 23, 2013
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Here’s one for the “We Told You So, Republicans” file. As it turns out, when you cut government spending arbitrarily and across-the-board it can affect things that your care about and rely on. If you do a lot of flying … Continue reading
April 19, 2013
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Do you want to know what sequestration looks like on the ground, and where the real casualties will be found? Look to West, Texas where an explosion at a fertilizer plant has claimed as many as 40 lives, injured more … Continue reading
April 12, 2013
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If you were stuck on the Washington beltway during the evening rush hour yesterday, you might have suspected that the Washington Metro area’s crumbling beltway had already begun to collapse. Fortunately, yesterday’s gridlock wasn’t the result of a beltway collapse … Continue reading
April 10, 2013
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It’s hard to imagine a more relevant moment for the National Urban League to release its State of Black America 2013 report. This year, after all, marks the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington and the 150th anniversary … Continue reading
April 4, 2013
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“Honey, if you can’t love yourself, how the hell you gonna love someone else?…..Can I get an amen?” — RuPaul One of the most interesting things about the focus on marriage equality in the past couple of weeks has been … Continue reading
March 29, 2013
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Everyone’s talking about marriage this week. So it’s hard to blame speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives T. W. Shannon for wanting to get in on the action with a bill to divert federal funds for the Temporary Assistance … Continue reading
March 27, 2013
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I’m not a manager, and I don’t think I’ll ever be one. I have no management training, and little in the way of management experience. However, I have been managed all of my adult life — sometimes well, sometimes abysmally … Continue reading
March 25, 2013
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With apologies to Victor Hugo, apparently nothing in Washington is as powerful as a bad idea whose time has come — or at least, a bad idea no one in Washington has the political will or ability to stop. The sequester … Continue reading