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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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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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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tomdispatch.com — An observer might be pardoned for wondering whether there hadn't been two super losers in the Cold War. Had the Soviet Union simply imploded first, while the U.S., enwreathed in a cloud of self-congratulation, was almost unbeknownst to itself also slowly making its way toward an exit?

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cepr.net — As Congress seeks to pass legislation to stem the foreclosure crisis, legislation containing elements of these proposals should not be on the table.

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alternet.org — Borrowers are being crushed under the credit crisis. Someone needs to pay.

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huffingtonpost.com — Ladies and gentlemen: welcome to an America where not only is being working class a code word for being the lowliest kind of human, but if you resist this smear, then you are an elitist.

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ft.com — What, then, should such regulation look like? Here are seven principles — or the "seven Cs" — of regulation.

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huffingtonpost.com — It is not a coincidence that the middle-class squeeze began at the same time as the corporate-funded anti-government, tax-cutting fervor. In fact, many of the reasons the middle class feels squeezed are the result of pressures brought about almost entirely from the effects of tax cuts and cutbacks in government services, regulations and enforcement that went along with the tax cuts.

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prospect.org — The McCain Agenda: John McCain has adopted a tax plan that covers up massive giveaways to the rich with absurd assertions and faulty calculations.

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