Opinion
Obama in Detroit: A fighting Labor Day speech
September 7, 2011President Obama is expected to outline a program for job creation through rebuilding the country's crumbling infrastructure.
Read morePayroll tax, jobs and Social Security
September 6, 2011One part of the jobs program that President Obama will be presenting this week is an extension of the payroll tax reduction. Some activists and economists are opposing an extension, claiming that it will undermine Social...
Read moreThe massacre at Ishaqi, Iraq
September 2, 2011U.S. troops entered the house and killed the civilians before calling in the airstrikes. Autopsies showed all had been handcuffed and then shot.
Read moreThe horror in Guatemala
September 2, 2011We today should be as angry and indignant as if this had happened yesterday; if we are not, it could happen again.
Read moreCreationists, flat earthers and deficit hawks
September 2, 2011It's worth asking how the proponents of deficit-reduction - be they congressional Republicans or "deficit hawks" within the Obama administration - think that lower deficits will lead to increased growth and job creation in an economy...
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