
Elizabeth Warren versus corporate shills
Republicans are practically foaming at the mouth in their crusade to block the nomination of Elizabeth Warren to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Eric Cantor's ugly ransom
There can be no political or moral justification for holding ransom disaster relief money for the people of Joplin, Mo.
Jim Crow move over, the Wisconsin GOP is here
Voters will for the first time be required to show photo identification this summer in recall elections seeking to unseat several Republican legislators.

Mitt Romney's Mexican roots
If the nation were to deny the children of immigrants birthright citizenship, as some GOP legislators believe we should, could Mitt be deported?

Wall Street doesn’t know what “enough” means
As the lords of finance are showing us, in the present era of capitalist development even small victories on the progressive side of the ledger are never secure.
Will Obama meetings on immigration reform bear fruit?
The meetings were apparently a response to pressure on the administration to back off of its aggressive immigration enforcement efforts.


