The Minimum Wage Shows Why (and How) We Should Vote Today
For today is Election Day, and on this day, we will elect 36 governors. This is no time to stay home when the polling places are open. This is a time to choose leaders who will act where Washington has not.
Guess Who Tried to Prevent the VA Crisis -- and Who Stood in Their Way!
While the Bush administration plunged us into two wars and cut taxes on the rich, Republicans in Congress were blocking every Democratic attempt to give the VA the funding they needed to give our veterans the medical care they were promised.
Geography: The Latest Front in the Class War
We talk a lot about the partisan divide in this country, but we don't talk enough about the geographic divide. The citizens who feel the greatest disconnect from collective institutions are often the ones who live farthest away from them.
The Republican Riddle: What the States Know That the Feds Don't
At the state level, Republicans are cynically and diabolically riding to victory on the wings of a big federal government while claiming to be doing the exact opposite.