Republicans have been stalling President Obama’s nominee, Craig Becker, to the National Labor Relations Board simply because he has a pro-union philosophy, simply because he will stand up for the middle-class.
Sen. Brown (D-OH) and other member of the Senate have had enough of it.
According to Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy (D-Vt.): “I’m in my thirty-sixth [...]

Obama’s proposed budget for FY 2011 has lead to a dramatic surge in criticism and deficit-related doom-saying. Krugman’s response?: Don’t buy the fiscal scare tactics.
In other words, yet again, there is a huge gap between the rhetoric of our politicians and “pundits” and the reality of fact.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/opinion/05krugman.html

Robert Samuelson provides a compelling take on:
(1) the real impetuses behind the current economic crisis, and
(2) what those impetuses reveal about the nature of our democracy
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/02/03/the_perils_of_prosperity_the_story_behind_the_economic_crisis_100149.html

In the absence of meaningful action from law makers, communities within the United States that are acutely vulnerable to climate change are turning to the courts for help.
Here is a NYT’s article which discusses how the Inupiat Eskimos of Kivalina, Alaska have brought a lawsuit against two dozen utility companies which they blame for accelerating [...]

James Ridgeway explains how Bush-Cheney policy “screwed” Haiti. To be concise, while the Bush administration was so focused on “democracy building” in Iraq and Afghanistan it virtually ignored “democracy building” right under our nose in Haiti.
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/01/us-policy-helped-keep-haiti-chaos

For all the criticism Obama has been getting lately, evidence suggests his stimulus package has saved nearly 2 million jobs and spurred a substantial part of the economic growth we’ve experienced during the last 2 quarters.

This week the media will, like usual, focus on individual personalities in Washington D.C. and elsewhere in politics. They will try to tell you whose up and whose down — without focuses on the substance of real issues and global problems.
In the wake of the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti yesterday, however, I am preparing [...]

In a recent Op-Ed for the NYT, Krugman pushes back against the talk of even calmer conservatives of late whom have been “issuing dire warnings that Obamacare will turn America into a European-style social democracy.” Krugman doesn’t challenge that health care reform will place us closer to European-style social democracy, instead he challenges the idea that European-style social democracy is bad.

A good piece from the Washington Post about how Hillary Clinton’s presence as Secretary of State has lead to a record increase in the number of female ambassadors in the U.S.