Will the Pope's complicity with a military dictatorship that tortured thousands of Argentines receive the same attention as the Vatican's sexual abuse scandal? Not likely, in part because the tortures in question were inflicted in one country, Argentina, rather than globally, as in the case of sexual abuse.

The correct counterpart to the unbridled ambition of the Ryan budget isn’t the cautious plan released by the Senate Democrats. It’s the “Back to Work” budget released by the House Progressives.

‘If this is success, we’re in a heap of trouble,’ says USW Pres. Gerard

WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 14, 2013) – Leo W. Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers (USW) issued the following statement today in advance of tomorrow’s one-year anniversary of the implementation of the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement.

We have to start somewhere.

Senators Ted Cruz and Rand Paul have introduced a bill, S. 505, that would prohibit drone killings of U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they do not represent an imminent threat. 

Washington, D.C. – Leaders of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, including Co-Chairs Reps. Raúl M. Grijalva and Keith Ellison and Budget Taskforce members Reps. Jim McDermott, Jan Schakowsky, Barbara Lee and Mark Pocan, today released their fiscal year 2014 budget alternative, the Back to Work Budget, which creates almost 7 million jobs over the first year and reduces the deficit by $4.4 trillion over the next 10 years.

7 million new jobs in one year

$4.4 trillion in deficit reduction

We're in a jobs crisis that isn't going away. Millions of hard-working American families are falling behind, and the richest 1 percent is taking home a bigger chunk of our nation's gains every year.