Blog Profile / Think Progress
| URL : | http://thinkprogress.org | |
|---|---|---|
| Filed Under: | US Politics / Liberal | |
| Posts on Regator: | 32102 | |
| Posts / Week: | 121.3 | |
| Archived Since: | April 22, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
How The GOP Is Putting America’s Safety Net Hospitals At Risk Of Bankruptcy
In light of Republican-led states’ entrenched opposition to Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, safety net hospitals around the country have expressed fears that they could go bankrupt as their government funding gets cut. On Monday, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it would help these embattled hospitals by paring back planned cuts to [...]
Half Of The Jobs Created During The Recovery Were Low-Paying
While the economy has seen decent job growth in recent months, the jobs being created may not pay very well. A new report has found that about half of the jobs created in the last three years have been low-paying, reports the Huffington Post’s Mark Gongloff: Nearly all of the 6.2 million jobs created since [...]
Intermission
The bridge is yours. -I’m not sure why we’re getting a Medieval Times movie when The Knights Of Badassdom is still in limbo. -Univision is adapting Breaking Bad. -Apparently Joss Whedon’s fans make him feel old. -How Homeland found its cast. -Brenda Chapman is justifiably displeased with the makeover her creation, Merida, is getting from [...]
False Balance Lives: Bloomberg News Gives Equal Weight To Climate Disinformer And Scientists
False balance is alive and well at even the best media outlets (see links below). Bloomberg news, famous for the post-Sandy cover story,“It’s Global Warming, Stupid,” now proves they can be the stupid ones, in a Monday piece on “Greenhouse Gases Hit Threshold Unseen in 3 Million Years”: Happy Plants “The Earth has had many-times-higher [...]
POLL: Majority Of Arizonans Support Marriage Equality
A new Rocky Mountain Poll released today shows that a majority of Arizona voters support marriage equality — and by a significant margin. According to the survey, 55 percent support the freedom to marry and only 35 percent opposed it. Even among voters over the age of 54, a 46 percent plurality favor the change [...]
What Andrew Wiggins’ Approach To College Tells Us About The College Basketball Recruiting Frenzy
Andrew Wiggins, the top-rated high school basketball player in the country and the most hyped teenage talent since Kevin Durant and maybe even LeBron James, will announce where he will spend a single year playing college basketball this afternoon. He has narrowed his choices to four — Kentucky, Kansas, North Carolina, and Florida State — [...]
How Real Disclosure Laws Could Help Fix The IRS Problem
The Internal Revenue Service is under fire from both parties for improperly targeting certain groups for additional scrutiny because their names included keywords such as “Tea Party” and “patriot.” But the challenge of addressing the skyrocketing numbers of “social welfare” groups registering for tax exempt status could be lessened by fixing the broken disclosure laws [...]
Report: U.S. Needs Plan To Contain A Possible Nuclear-Armed Iran
A new report out on Monday concludes that the Obama administration should be prepared to contain a nuclear-armed Iran, rather than ignoring such a possibility in favor of its current strategy of prevention. The Center for New American Security (CNAS) report — titled “If All Else Fails: The Challenges of Containing a Nuclear-Armed Iran” [PDF] [...]
Taliban Calls Off Attacks On Polio Vaccine Workers In Afghanistan
In a change of tactics, the Taliban has called off its attacks against health workers in Afghanistan, providing space for polio workers to finally eradicate the deadly disease. The former leaders of Afghanistan have gone back and forth on allowing aid workers to administer the polio vaccine to Afghan children over the years. Last year, [...]
Australia Drops Austerity In Favor Of Spending On Jobs
Conservative U.S. politicians continue to press for austerity, but on the other side of the world, Australia’s government is moving in the opposite direction. That country largely escaped the economic downturn thanks to its abundant natural resources. Show More Summary
Older Americans Are Pushing Marriage Equality Forward
Gallup has just released new data on public support for legalizing same sex marriage. They describe support as “solidifying” above 50 percent, and that’s not just because of the rise of the younger generation: older folks, according to the new data, are quickly coming around to the marriage equality cause. According to the Gallup data, [...]
Five States Advancing Medically Unnecessary Restrictions On The Abortion Pill
On Monday, illegal abortion provider Kermit Gosnell was convicted of first-degree murder for the barbaric crimes he committed in his unsanitary Philadelphia-area clinic. Throughout his high-profile murder trial, anti-choice activists...Show More Summary
Vermont Lawmakers Approve Bill Allowing Doctors To Help Terminally Ill Patients Die
On Monday night, the Vermont legislature passed a bill allowing doctors to help terminally ill patients die if the patient requests it. The controversial proposal, which Gov. Peter Shumlin (D-VT) has pledged to sign into law, is the first to pass a legislative body in the nation. Vermont will become the fourth state to allow [...]
In ‘The Michael J. Fox Show’ And ‘Ironside,’ NBC Bets Big On Characters With Physical Limitations
Amidst all the business-oriented discussion of whether NBC, which cancelled much of the new programming it tried to introduce last year, can succeed by starting over, going middlebrow, or recreating past hits, there’s one part of the network’s programming decisions that merits mention on the content rather than the financial or audience calculations. The network [...]
Obama Nominee Pushed Policies That Could Have Prevented The Housing Crisis
Our guest blogger is David Sanchez, a special assistant with the economic policy team at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. President Obama recently nominated Rep. Mel Watt (D-NC) to become the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which regulates government mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan [...]
Anti-Immigration Groups Refuse To Condemn Heritage Author’s Racism
Our guest blogger is Melinda Warner, a Senior Advisor with Fernandez Advisors where she directs their research initiatives. When the Heritage Foundation released its report claiming that the new immigration legislation – erroneously called amnesty in the report – would cost taxpayers $6.3 trillion, they probably didn’t expect it to go over as poorly as [...]
Dick Cheney: Benghazi ‘One Of The Worst Incidences I Can Recall In My Career’
Former Vice President Dick Cheney weighed in on Benghazi last night, saying the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya was “one of the worst incidences” he could recall. President Obama on Monday defended the actions he and the rest of the Executive Branch took in the days and weeks after [...]
May 13 News: Loss Of Rain Forest Leads To More CO2, Less Hydroelectric Power
The loss of rain forests is likely to lead to lower hydroelectric energy production in nations like Brazil. [New York Times] The loss of tropical rain forests is likely to reduce the energy output of hydroelectric projects in countries like Brazil that are investing billions of dollars to create power to support economic growth. That [...]
Marriage Equality Opponents Mourn ‘Sad Day’ In Minnesota
Opponents of marriage equality are licking their wounds after Monday’s passage of marriage equality in the Minnesota Senate, assuring The Land of 10,000 Lakes would become the 12th state recognizing same-sex marriages. Despite polling...Show More Summary
On Women’s Health Week, Angelinia Jolie Goes Public About Her Double Mastectomy
Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie shared the story of her preventative double mastectomy, a decision she made after discovering she carries a gene that gives her an extremely high risk of developing breast cancer, in a New York Times op-ed published on Monday night. Her public announcement coincided with National Women’s Health Week, a government initiative [...]