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Child zombies at the border? It’s the right-wing nightmare I’ve been noting my skepticism that the GOP was going to behave like decent people on the subject of immigration for a very long time. I’m afraid that this is in the DNA of the right wing—and goes to the heart of every one of their…
Obama, on a pro-labor roll, just signed the most important workers’ rights reform of the past 20 years. If you’ve been following President Obama’s burst of enthusiasm for executive orders, you may have heard that he’s been flexing his muscle on behalf of labor. Last month, Obama banned federal contractors from discriminating against gay workers. For that…
As gays prevail in Supreme Court, women see setbacks When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg reflects on the Supreme Court’s recent rulings, she sees an inconsistency. In its gay rights rulings, she told a law school audience last week, the court uses the soaring language of “equal dignity” and has endorsed the fundamental values of “liberty and…
Work and worth: Should a hedge-fund manager really be making $2.3 billion a year? What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society. Does anyone seriously believe hedge-fund mogul Steven A. Cohen is worth the $2.3 billion he raked in last year, despite being slapped with a $1.8 billion fine…
The one number that will decide this year’s election What will be the deciding factor in this year’s elections? Will it be Obamacare? The chaos erupting across the globe? The president’s approval rating? Will it be single women voters, Hispanics, young people? Mike Podhorzer crunched the numbers and found there’s one factor that, with eerie consistency, explains…
BOOM: The historic proof that Obamacare foes are dead wrong on subsidies The story of whether Congress ever intended to limit Obamacare subsidies to state-based exchanges begins and ends with the Congressional Budget Office. And what it reveals about the latest legal threat to Obamacare dramatically undercuts the arguments against the law. No one person or…