The battle over the fiscal cliff might be over, but the political battle between the different parties will continue.
Robert Reich
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Don’t count Romney out of the race yet – he could still pull off an unlikely victory, writes scholar.
Ryan’s proposed budget doesn’t shrink government by cutting benefits and payments to big business and the rich.
Ryan is not a firebrand… He “doesn’t ooze contempt for opponents or ridicule those who disagree with him”.
Amid financial turmoil, both candidates prefer to attack each other than to lay out an economic vision.
The super-rich and privileged have been fabricating truth in order to entrench it in the American psyche.
In the US, the rich should pay more taxes so that higher education is more affordable for the middle- and lower-class.
US companies are making big profits and paying few taxes, but presidential candidates want to lower tax rates further.
Improvement in the US manufacturing sector obscures the fact that workers, by and large, aren’t sharing in the gains.
More and more people in the US are living in poverty – yet Mitt Romney’s policies would further shred the safety net.