Category: Economy
It’s Time to Build a New Corporate Democracy
by Ian Williams | Mar 15, 2008 | Economy, PoliticsEditor’s note: Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank, who chairs the House Financial Services Committee, got his “say-on-pay” bill through the House last year by a 269-134 vote. A companion bill in the Senate, filed by Barack Obama, has been blocked by Republicans. President Bush threatens to veto the bill, if it does get through the Senate, […]
Putting Fairness Back into America’s Tax System
by WS Editors | Apr 15, 2007 | Economy, PoliticsDemocrats in Congress have convened a series of hearings on tax policy that could lead to long-overdue changes. With this forum and the energy generated by the 2008 presidential campaigns, they have the opportunity to reverse the Bush administration’s tax cuts for the rich, rejecting the notion of making them permanent, as well as to […]
New York’s Novel Plan | A Carbon Problem for GM | Judging CEOs by Their Houses
by WS Editors | Apr 15, 2007 | Economy, EnvironmentWonderful Town—It might seem odd for a billionaire to develop a radical plan to help the poor. But New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, a possible independent presidential candidate for 2008, has done so in a typically unconventional manner. Stay in school, go to the dentist, take a higher education course or get job training […]
Tom DeLay’s Unsolicited Advice | The Foreclosure Epidemic | An Iraq Fallacy
by WS Editors | Apr 1, 2007 | Economy, Foreign PolicyThe Hammer Strikes Back—NBC’s Today Show isn’t known for putting its guests in the hot seat—unless your name is Tom Cruise. Yet there was host Meredith Vieira on March 20, sinking her teeth into former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. “You say to fight, and the name of your book is No Retreat, No Surrender. But didn’t you […]
Remembering Molly Ivins | Strange Bedfellows | Florida Dumps Electronic Voting
by WS Editors | Feb 15, 2007 | Culture, EconomyRemembering Molly—We know that a great many of you first subscribed to the Spectatorbased on the recommendation of Molly Ivins, the iconic liberal columnist and humorist who, as you no doubt know, died on January 31 after a long fight with cancer. Molly got to know our longtime editor Ben A. Franklin back in the days […]
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Dancing in the Dark: Steps to Avoid a Constitutional Coup in the 2024 Election
By Mark Medish and Joel McCleary
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The Wide Angle: Is a UFO Hoax a Ticking Time-bomb for Biden?
By Dave Troy
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How Christian Nationalists, Big Oil and the Big Lie Seized the Speaker’s Gavel
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