Joel Sawyer (Republican strategist and senior vice president, Donehue Direct), Joe Williams (White House reporter, Politico), Brian Beutler (senior congressional reporter, Talking Points Memo), Jeff Madrick (senior fellow, Roosevelt Institute), Jim Traub (weekly columnist, ForeignPolicy.com) and Nicholas Kristof (New York Times columnist).
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Eliot Spitzer analyzes Mitt Romney’s ‘flawed mythology’ of government as ‘enemy’
“FDR pulled us together to build 50 years of prosperity by articulating a sense of common purpose and shared sacrifice — these are the pieces of freedom that we stand for. If we have forgotten so quickly after the cataclysm [...] watch video
Jeff Madrick warns of austerity tactics, Brian Beutler discusses looming year-end tax increases
“I think both parties believe in austerity. They believe they’ve — I guess they’ve drunk the Kool-Aid, that we’ve got to deal with this budget deficit right now. Well, the economy is too darn weak to start having tax increases, [...] watch video
Are we failing our veterans? Nicholas Kristof investigates veterans’ high suicide rates
“There is real evidence that traumatic brain injury, TBI — which is what you can get when you get a concussion — that it leads to real but invisible injuries in the brain that are strongly associated with depression and [...] watch video
