Progressive Opinion

huffingtonpost.com — In case you didn't know, the loss of 20,000 American jobs in April is actually good news. You see, economists had predicted 73,000 jobs would be lost last month, so thank God we dodged that bullet, right?!

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ft.com — It may well be that the US political system requires an administration to sell the threat to make a case for war, but this inevitably militates against the development of a rounded picture of opponents.

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nybooks.com — There is a working assumption among the American people that a new president enters the White House free to call off a war begun by a predecessor. No one would expect something so dramatic on the first day of a new administration but it remains a fact that the president is the commander in chief of the armed forces, and the power that allowed one president to invade Iraq would allow another to bring the troops home.

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nytimes.com — Congress is finally moving to shut down an egregious forms of Iraq war profiteering: defense contractors using offshore shell companies to avoid paying their fair share of payroll taxes. No one will be surprised to hear that one of the suspected prime offenders is KBR, the Texas-based defense contractor, formerly a part of the Halliburton conglomerate allied with Vice President Dick Cheney

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huffingtonpost.com — There is no problem that existentially challenges the United States — and every other country in the world — more than energy and climate change. Anyone who thinks the problem can wait for another few years, or the next American administration after this one, should take a hard look at the gathering global food crisis

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hosted.ap.org — The unemployment rate drops. Productivity grows. The trade deficit shrinks. Sounds great, right? Not so fast. Some seemingly good economic numbers can be something of a mirage masking weaknesses in the national economy

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tomdispatch.com — All of a sudden it isn't morning in America, it's dusk on planet Earth.

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huffingtonpost.com — I hold in my hand one of the most important pieces of paper in America, and it reveals nothing less than McCain's secret plan to diminish the US government beyond recognition. If he gets his way, conservatives will finally achieve the goal set out by Grover Norquist: to get government "down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."

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thenation.com — It's hard to agree with Newt Gingrich—he's a predator who proffered Americans a raw deal which, to this day, afflicts our politics. But he's right: These are potentially tectonic-shifting times.

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thenation.com — In a much-publicized plea to his fellow Republicans, Newt Gingrich seems to echo Bill Moyers, who once argued that "the conservative movement stands intellectually and morally bankrupt…"

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