Every day the foundations of our institutions decay more, but American society is emotionally unable to grasp the mortal danger that approaches.
Conservatism in the United States used to stand for limited government authority. Now, the American right has taken itself out of the game.
Democrats call the legislation a boon to the rich that leaves middle-class and working Americans behind.
The veteran journalist shares his thoughts on the Republican tax bill and class warfare in our "age of unreason."
Republicans pushed a $1.5 trillion tax bill through the Senate, taking a giant step toward giving the president one of his top priorities.
The GOP is concentrating its efforts on a massive tax cut, 80 percent of which will benefit the richest 1 percent, according to one estimate.
So the official story here is that President Obama says he wants to cut the country's corporate tax rate by seven percentage points, dropping it from 35 percent to 28 percent, which gives him a nice tax-related headline on a day when similar stories are cropping up about the competition.
Although the outcome of this fall's midterm elections didn't suggest great possibilities for the last two years of President Obama's term, he would like to suggest, as he does in this speech after Wednesday's START vote, that .
This week's episode of "Left, Right & Center" features a double dose of commentary from the right, making the conversation about Obama's strategy in Afghanistan, the death of Richard Holbrooke, the future of health care reform, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission's findings .
In Internet-ese, one possible response to a couple of President Obama's more intriguing justifications on Friday for the passing of the contentious tax-cut bill might be O RLY? This is because the president declared later that same day .
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