- Why are US corporate profits so high? Because wages are so low
- Nearly Half of America Lives Paycheck-to-Paycheck
- US Federal Prosecutors Are Investigating Whether Banks Helped Payday Lenders Siphon Billions From Americans
- CEO tells Daily Show 'mentally retarded' could work for $2: 'You're worth what you're worth'
- Going From Middle Class to Poverty—"One man shares his story about joining the ranks of the working poor."
- As goes Best Buy, so goes the U.S. economy—"Slumping sales at the big box retailer signal the declining purchasing power of countless Americans." Salon
- Moore: If Henry Ford Could Pay a $15 Minimum Wage 100 Years Ago, So Can We
- Ex-Bush Aide Wonders Why Nobody Is Talking About The 'Plight' Of The Job Creators
- Wal-Mart laying off 2,300 Sam's Club managers and hourly workers
- Canada: Job cuts at Sears, Best Buy target managers
- Big Companies Join Obama in Initiative to Help Long-Term Unemployed—"Walmart and Apple are among 300 businesses that have agreed to review policies that may screen out applicants who have not worked in a long time." NYT
- WSJ: Liberal Outrage Proves Perkins' Point About Progressive 'Kristallnacht'
- Why Do the Super-Rich Keep Comparing Obama to Hitler?—"Legendary venture capitalist Tom Perkins became just the latest 1 percenter to wonder whether higher marginal tax rates and Occupy Wall Street might be the start of something far, far darker."
- The 1 percent's most ruinous sin: How they sap our politicians of all decency—"How the sad story of Mitt Romney explains everything that's wrong with American democracy." Salon
- Krugman: Godwin Help Us NYT
- Robinson: The 1% as victims? That’s rich! WaPo
- Drum: Why the Rich Feel Besieged: A Checklist
- David Simon tells Bill Moyers: 'There was a class war, and the poor people lost'
- The State of the Union, or: Obama Breaks Up with Congress
- Jon Meacham Says He Was Wrong About Lincoln, FDR And Executive Orders—In fact, Obama's given the fewest executive orders in 100 years.
- GOP's SOTU Response Reminds Us There's Two Americas and One Should Secede
- The Daily Show: Band of Blockers—"Republicans uninterested in bipartisanship decry President Obama's lack of bipartisanship, and one Congressman gives a NY1 reporter the traditional Staten Island goodbye."
- Cruz Vows Spending Fight on Debt Cap Boehner May Avoid
- Mitch McConnell Thinks You're Stupid
- Christie Linked to Knowledge of Shut Lanes—"David Wildstein, a former Port Authority official, says there is evidence to prove the New Jersey governor knew about the lane closings at the George Washington Bridge, which the governor has denied." Would he resign? NYT
- Rep. Grimm couldn't intimidate Scotto
- The New Face of Food Stamps: Working-Age Americans
- A Sad First: Working People Now Need Food Stamps More than Kids, Elderly
- Republicans Just Won the Food Stamp War—"Congress is set to approve $9 billion in cuts to the food stamp program even as a record number of Americans live in poverty."
- Wal-Mart: Food stamp cuts to hit profits
- This farm bill deserves a veto WaPo
- House GOP Backs Legal Status For Undocumented Immigrants
- Republican Party plots immigration reform: GOP wants to appear reasonable
- House G.O.P.'s Immigration Plan Presents Tough Choices for Obama—"Speaker John A. Boehner's blueprint may force President Obama to decide whether to abandon a new path to citizenship and accept other concessions." NYT
- Poll: Huckabee Is Now The GOP's Top Choice For 2016 After Libido Remark
- Fox News Panel Features Four Men (And Zero Women) Debating Notion Of "War On Women"
- Fox Host Says There Is No Gender Gap: 'Many Women Make Exactly What They're Worth'
- Cathy McMorris-Rodgers says she "absolutely" supports equal pay laws (she just won't vote for them) Salon
- Kansas lawmaker wants to make surrogate motherhood illegal
- Tea Party Republican Todd Kincannon: Wendy Davis is a "Looker," "Hooker," and a "Whore"
- Montana GOP Candidate Calls Hillary Clinton The 'Anti-Christ'
- Harry Reid slams Koch brothers—"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid slammed the Koch brothers' political activities Thursday, accusing the influential conservatives of trying to 'buy the country.'"
- Koch-Tied Groups Funded GOP Effort to Mess With Electoral College Rules
- GOP aide charged with illegal voting
- Jon Stewart confronts Pelosi on money in politics, delivers best interview in recent memory—"That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you do the news."
- Miami TV Station Ticks Off Florida GOP With 'Reprehensive Party' Graphic
- MSNBC President Apologizes To RNC Chair For Tweet, Fires Staffer—"The tweet that started it all suggested that conservatives would hate the image of an 'adorable new #Cheerios ad w/ biracial family.'"
- Study: Watching Only Fox News Makes You Less Informed Than Watching No News At All
- Fox News once again most and least trusted name in news
- My personal Fox News nightmare: Inside a month of self-induced torture—"I'm a card-carrying member of the ACLU. Here's what happened when I watched 3 hours of Fox every day for a month." Salon
