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• The Internet and Collective Grief

  Like everyone else, I've been following the tragic and gruesome news coming out of Viginia. If there's any silver living in these kinds of moments, it is that they tend to bring out the best in people: empathy, community and...

  Posted by David Sirota on April 17, 2007 1:48 PM
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• Thomas Friedman's Blindspot

  As my first act here at David's place, I'll commit a minor sacrilege and give some (grudging) props to the notorious and often odious "Mustache of Understanding." This past weekend, Thomas Friedman had a cover essay in the New York...

  Posted by David Sirota on April 17, 2007 1:23 PM
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• Inequality Files

  Hedge fund managers and tax loopholes: Many Americans squirrel away as much as they can into retirement investment accounts like 401(k)s and I.R.A.’s that allow them to compound their earnings tax free. The accounts also reduce what they owe when...

  Posted by Ben Benjamin on April 17, 2007 12:08 PM
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• Chris Hayes takes over; Come to the PSN gala if you are in D.C.

  I'm off to Washington, D.C. tomorrow for the first annual gala for the Progressive States Network. The gala features, among others, Al Franken, Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) and Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), as well as the state legislators the Progressive...

  Posted by David Sirota on April 16, 2007 10:06 PM
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• Tax time highlights the War on the Middle Class

  As a patriotic American, I'm always happy to pay my taxes. But what I'm not happy about is that around tax time every year, we get the usual right-wing talking points about what a tragedy it is that rich people...

  Posted by David Sirota on April 16, 2007 3:35 PM
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• CAUSE & EFFECT: The anatomy of a big progressive victory

  Cause and effect - it's always hard to precisely pin down this relationship in politics, but a stunning announcement late last week shows how the two are related, and how to use them for major movement victories. Let's first start...

  Posted by David Sirota on April 16, 2007 11:26 AM
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• Sunday night movie blogging

  Just back from a great weekend trip to Lexington, Kentucky and Nashville, Tennessee to speak to some progressive groups. On my flight from Salt Lake City to Cincinnati, Delta showed The Pursuit of Happyness, which I didn't get a chance...

  Posted by David Sirota on April 15, 2007 11:52 PM
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• Richard Cohen's definition of "middle class"

  Jonathan Schwarz catches another example of a Washington pundit who seems unable to acknowledge economic reality....

  Posted by David Sirota on April 15, 2007 3:51 PM
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• CEOs being paid the most lobby against exec compensation reform

  I'm traveling today so posting is going to be extremely light. In the meantime, make sure to check out this story from the Politico: "Chief executives leading the fight against congressional attempts to rein in their compensation made 50 percent...

  Posted by David Sirota on April 13, 2007 8:52 AM
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• Someone else's life-threatening illness isn't all about you, Jay

  I still don't understand why reporters like Time Magazine's Jay Carney or CBS's Katie Couric think it is their obligation to let everyone know their personal feelings on how politicians - Republican or Democratic - behave when they contract a...

  Posted by David Sirota on April 12, 2007 3:50 PM
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• Today in “Let’s fabricate a 2008 myth”

  I know it's a rather small example, but check out this line in Time Magazine today: "Political scientists speak of the communications skills of Reagan, Thompson and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger..." Serious question: What "political scientists speak of the communications...

  Posted by David Sirota on April 12, 2007 11:54 AM
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• Throwing down trickle-down

  Read this NYT Business article if you still thought trickle-down economic theory had any shred of connection to the real world....

  Posted by David Sirota on April 12, 2007 11:17 AM
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• Kurt Vonnegut, RIP

  One of the greatest writers of the last century (and my fellow In These Times senior editor) passed away yesterday. May he rest in peace....

  Posted by David Sirota on April 12, 2007 9:01 AM
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• The Internet version of the 18-minute silence

  Remember how the Watergate tapes have an "inexplicable" 18-minute silence? Seems like we've got the Internet version of that from the Bush administration: "The White House said Wednesday it had mishandled Republican Party-sponsored e-mail accounts used by nearly two dozen...

  Posted by David Sirota on April 11, 2007 9:22 PM
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• Romney adviser: stop child tax credits, expand corporate tax cuts

  U.S. News and World Report's James Pethokoukis has the scoop on Mitt Romney adviser Cesar Conda demanding Congress stop child tax credits and start slashing corporate tax rates - because apparently, the divergence between corporate profits and median wages just...

  Posted by David Sirota on April 11, 2007 3:16 PM
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• How many facts are needed to destroy a false Beltway orthodoxy?

  This is my question after reading this morning’s papers: How many cold, hard facts are needed to kill tired Beltway orthodoxies? Or, now that we are in the Age When Journalism Died, is it true that when an orthodoxy has...

  Posted by David Sirota on April 11, 2007 11:24 AM
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• CEOs, mansions and bankruptcy law

  The Wall Street Journal points out a new study showing that when CEOs buy mansions, it's a good sign that company stock is going to plummet. Incredibly, the Journal doesn't mention a likely reason: Bankruptcy protections go out of their...

  Posted by David Sirota on April 10, 2007 6:45 PM
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• D.C. “free” traders moving to reward government that executes workers who form unions

  To those sad, blind, corrupt "free" traders in both parties, I ask you to read this Washington Post article before you open your traps again. Yes, weeks after President Bush traveled to South America to declare that Colombia "has made...

  Posted by David Sirota on April 10, 2007 3:17 PM
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• The Great Labor Shortage Lie

  I've said many times before that the best place for information is the business press. The material is written for people who need cold, hard information in order to make money, rather than for the professional political pontificators who are...

  Posted by David Sirota on April 10, 2007 11:23 AM
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• Quote of the week

  "Our object was not to get you into power because we are Democrats -- our object was to get you into power so you actually do something." - DNC Chair Howard Dean, Denver Post, 4/8...

  Posted by David Sirota on April 10, 2007 9:48 AM
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• Draft DeFazio movement builds

  Blue Oregon has the details on a percolating grassroots effort to recruit a progressive champion to run for Senate in Oregon. Check it out....

  Posted by David Sirota on April 10, 2007 8:49 AM
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• Retail execs hit paydirt while they shaft their workers

  Executives, economist and other corporate apologists often justify low wages at places like Wal-Mart by telling us that's just a fact of life in the retail industry, which we are led to believe subsists on tiny profit margins. That justification...

  Posted by David Sirota on April 9, 2007 7:31 PM
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• Chairmanship as tool of obstruction

  The broad strokes of Democrats' basic congressional agenda on domestic issues is pretty obvious: Raise the minimum wage, let Medicare negotiate lower prices for medicine, stop President Bush's destructive job-killing "free" trade agenda, and make taxes more fair. There are...

  Posted by David Sirota on April 9, 2007 5:03 PM
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• George "AWOL to Alabama" Bush steps up prosecutions of soldiers going AWOL

  There something more than a little incredible about George "AWOL to Alabama" Bush's Pentagon appointees stepping up prosecutions of soldiers who go AWOL....

  Posted by David Sirota on April 9, 2007 4:11 PM
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