The greatest war in American history turns 50 today. That's the War on Poverty. Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Members of the House and Senate, my fellow Americans: I will be brief, for our time is necessarily short and our agenda is already long. Last year's...
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On January 8, 1811, the largest armed slave uprising in U.S. history took place. The German Coast Uprising in Louisiana had up to 500 participants marching to New Orleans to.
The DOE's proposed budget for FY2014 extends the benefits of the Pay As You Earn (PAYE) plan to everyone's eligible Income-Based Repayment (IBR) loans. As of now only people who.
In her "conversation" with David Brooks, Gail Collins manages to capture in two sentences how not to think about legislative change: I’m with you on the single-payer option. If only the president had not taken the path that was touted by several generations of Republican...
Yesterday, we discussed the serious problems the American West has with its water supply and the very real threats this portends for the region's future. Those who truly believe technology.
Something you really need to read: I was 12 hours into a summer vacation in Palm Springs when my phone hummed to life, buzzing twice next to me in the.
I've been told by numerous commenters since it happened that Obama got nothing for agreeing to a temporary extension of the Bush tax cuts because the Republican Party could always be counted on to extend unemployment benefits without getting anything in return. Now that the...
The Department of Labor provided some useful maps in 1933 of the United States' patchwork regulations on child labor. One map. Seems to me that Arkansas was infringing on the.
It's not so much that the beef monopoly is evil. We all know that. It's that the beef monopoly is an evil subsidized directly by taxpayer dollars. That's a problem..
The 2013 Phil Gramm award for pleasingly inept campaigning goes to...Ms. Liz Cheney: John King and Peter Hamby scoop some news that will devastate every hack who hoped to expense Jackson Hole trips for "political reporting" this year. Liz Cheney, the former Fox News analyst...
I really don't think Lawrence Kotlikoff's idea to abolish all corporate income taxes is very good. In recent decades, American workers have suffered one body blow after another: the decline.
Apparently Iraq is once again on the verge of full-blown civil war: On Thursday, The New York Times startled many—and should have outraged and depressed many more—when it reported that.