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New from PPI | November 16, 2009
Cap-and-Trade and the American Farmer
By Elbert Ventura
One of the more unfortunate developments in the debate over cap-and-trade has been the refusal of the agriculture lobby to sit down at the table and work toward a good compromise with policy makers and business leaders on climate-change law.
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New from PPI | November 16, 2009
Explaining Afghanistan Better
By Jim Arkedis
Eugene Robinson is a wonderful writer with whom I quite often agree. But if such a talented, astute observer of the American political landscape hasn't deciphered why we're in Afghanistan, and that those costs are worth bearing, then the White House better prepare for an all-out charm offensive once the strategy and troop-level decisions have been made.
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New from PPI | November 16, 2009
Is Reid Wobbling on the "Cadillac Plan" Tax?
By Elbert Ventura
A New York Times editorial today threw its support behind a health reform provision that we've backed in the past: an excise tax on so-called Cadillac plans. But the Times' endorsement came on a weekend when prospects for the tax seemed to dim.
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New from PPI | November 16, 2009
The Morning After Health Care Reform: A Progressive Wake-Up Call
By Scott Winship
If health care reform is enacted in the coming months, progressives will need to focus sincerely on a problem to which they have paid only lip service over the last few months, one that reform is sure to exacerbate: the perilous fiscal health of the federal government.
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New from PPI | November 16, 2009
Welcome to Progressive Fix!
By Will Marshall
I am pleased to announce the launch of Progressivefix.com, the place for independent-minded progressives and progressive-minded independents.
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New from PPI | November 12, 2009
Ambassador Eikenberry and the Afghan Strategy
By Jim Arkedis
Someone -- possibly the White House’s man in Kabul himself -- seems to be making life tough for U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry.
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New from PPI | November 12, 2009
Dispatches from the Republican Self-Immolation
By Elbert Ventura
First, from Maine, where a new poll shows that Sen. Olympia Snowe would get trounced in a Republican primary by a more conservative opponent. With the mob whipped up into a RINO-hunting frenzy, the party was willing to lose Arlen Specter, so why not Snowe as well?
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New from PPI | November 12, 2009
Race to the Top Begins
By Elbert Ventura
The Department of Education today released the final application for its Race to the Top Fund after a period of public comment and revisions. With the release, the department officially parts the curtain on an ambitious education initiative, one that may well prove to be the closest the Obama reform agenda comes to an unqualified success.
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New from PPI | November 10, 2009
Fort Hood and the Terrorism Question
By Jim Arkedis
Was the attack on Fort Hood terrorism?
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New from PPI | November 10, 2009
On Health Reform, Cost Containment Remains the Missing Piece
By Will Marshall
President Obama’s push for health care reform has provoked so many political sideshows that it’s easy to lose track of the main plot. The most important debate – how to slow the inexorable growth of health care costs – has scarcely begun.
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New from PPI | November 10, 2009
Reform and Its Discontents
By Elbert Ventura
It has become fashionable among some progressives to lambast the administration and congressional Democrats for the slow pace and incremental approach they have taken in trying to pass health reform legislation.
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New from PPI | November 10, 2009
Rousing the Rising American Electorate
By Elbert Ventura
One of the big talking points about the election last week was that Democrats lost independent voters. But a new survey from Greenberg Quinlan Rosner reminds us that they weren’t the only ones the Democrats missed on election night.
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New from PPI | November 9, 2009
Marshall/Derham: Making Our Tax System More Fair
By Steven Chlapecka
PPI's Will Marshall and Mike Derham have a new column on reforming the U.S. tax system in the Washington Times.
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New from PPI | November 9, 2009
On a Good Night, A Discordant Note
By Elbert Ventura
Some on the left have been going hard against Democrats for caving on the Stupak amendment in the health care reform bill the House passed on Saturday.
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New from PPI | November 9, 2009
The House Health Reform Vote
By Ed Kilgore
Amidst general pleasure over the House´s passage of health reform legislation Saturday night, there´s also progressive angst over two issues.
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New from PPI | November 9, 2009
Theories For the 2009 Turnout Calamity
By Ed Kilgore
Now that the results from NJ and VA have been masticated for a few days, it´s pretty obvious that the most ominous--but potentially reversible--factor in the dual Democratic defeats was a massive change in the composition of the electorate.
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New from PPI | November 9, 2009
Why the U.S. Needs to Ratify a Free Trade Agreement with Colombia
By Mike Derham
In an era of economic uncertainty, the U.S. needs to reassert its global leadership on free trade. Ratifying a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Colombia would be a good first step.
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New from PPI | November 9, 2009
Why the Wall Came Down
By Jim Arkedis
Twenty years ago today, I was a seventh grader at the American Community School in Surrey, England.
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New from PPI | November 6, 2009
The Electric Car Ecosystem
By Elbert Ventura
The second coming of the electric car -- particularly in the guise of the highly anticipated Chevy Volt -- has certainly received a fair amount of publicity in recent months.
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New from PPI | November 5, 2009
Cap-and-Trade: Neither a Job Killer Nor a Free Ride
By Elbert Ventura
Cap-and-trade legislation in Congress has come under fire from both left and right. Some on the left claim that the distribution of free emissions allowances to industry amounts to a “free ride.” Meanwhile, many on the right slam the bill as a job and economy killer.
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