Medicare Celebrates Its 50th Birthday, Despite Ronald Reagan
In 1961, Reagan, then known just as an actor, now the ultimate iconic Republican, recorded an LP titled "Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine."
Jon Schwarz
Before joining First Look Media, Jon Schwarz worked for Michael Moore’s Dog Eat Dog Films and was a research producer for Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story.” He’s contributed to many publications, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, and Slate, as well as NPR and "Saturday Night Live." In 2003, he collected on a $1,000 bet that Iraq would have no weapons of mass destruction.
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Former GOP Sen. Phil Gramm: “It Was an Outrage” That “Exploited” AT&T CEO Got Only $75 Million at Retirement
Gramm attributed anger at CEOs like Edward Whitacre (who actually got $158 million) to "the one form of bigotry that is still allowed in America ... bigotry against the successful."
The Movement to Fight Big Money Politics Now Has a Gold Standard
We may not be doomed to spend the rest of our lives thinking of disgusting things to which to compare the American political process.
Tom Daschle: Some Democrat Who's Not Him Should Rebuild Party in Red States
Daschle would definitely move back to South Dakota from D.C. to help if he weren't so busy lobbying for Taiwan.
Joe Biden: Some Democrat Who’s Not Him Should “Get Private Money Out of Politics”
Vice President Biden called upon other Democrats to refuse to take large donations from "millionaires and billionaires" in party primaries.
Susan Rice Won’t Tell the Truth About Why Americans Can’t Inspect Iran
Rice had to decide: Should she make the U.S. look worse and Obama look better by telling the whole truth, or keep quiet and make the U.S. look better and Obama worse? Her choice is instructive.
Big Money Stalls Key Dodd-Frank Anti-Corruption Rule for 5 Years and Counting
Maybe you thought Dodd-Frank -- which requires U.S. corporations to disclose how much they pay foreign governments for oil and gas -- was the law because it was passed by Congress and signed by the president. HA HA PSYCH.
Why Is Iran’s Refusal to Allow No-Notice Inspections Legit? U.S. History With Iraq
During the 1990s, the U.S. abused the UN arms control process to target Iraq's non-WMD military and overthrow Saddam Hussein.
AEI Expert: Iranians Think “Very Differently” From Us Because They're “Nationalists”
Iranians: are they normal human beings like us, or are they weirdos whose foreign, mysterious thought processes can only be understood by experts like Michael Rubin?
“Somebody’s Going to Own This Government. It Ought to Be Us, Not Wall Street”
Rep. John Sarbanes explains why his bill could not just change campaign financing but plausibly diminish the impact of big-money lobbying, and why it would keep incumbents like himself on their toes.