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Yes. Making Mitt Romney pay more in capital gains taxes would both help slow the alarming growth of inequality in the U.S. and, if offset by a decrease in the corporate tax rate, help keep capital and investment within our borders.

The CFPB is the law of the land. The agency was created last year when the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was passed by Congress and signed by the president. This is how laws are made. It says so in the Constitution. A minority of senators can't decide on their own to nullify the law. And tellingly, few are raising the objection that Richard Cordray is unqualified for the post. In fact, he has received glowing and bipartisan support, especially from those he worked when he served as attorney general for Ohio.

It's not a good sign when even the most obvious truths cannot be spoken on the campaign trail.

Deport 11 million illegal immigrants? Can Newt Gingrich really be the only Republican presidential candidate who understands that this would be impossible?

Not only would it cost tens of billions of dollars and divert resources from many far more pressing law enforcement priorities, but even the toughest of presidents would soon back off as the media images of mass round-ups beamed around the world—that really is not the kind of country most Americans want to be or live in.

... "His ability to impact the region has definitely diminished," says Randa Slim, a Middle East scholar at the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think tank. "Because of this realization that the Assad regime is not going to be here to stay, players in the region including Hezbollah, Hamas, and PKK, have to start hedging their bets and reconsidering their interests." ...

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Occupy Wall Street is not the next Tea Party movement. Broadly speaking, it has many of the same sentiments that led to the creation of the Tea Party--frustration and anger at a system that is failing many of its citizens, desire for a better way of life, and the belief that ordinary Americans can bring about change to the status quo. Yet Occupy Wall Street is a movement based solely on emotions, dreams, and ideas--perhaps well-intentioned ideas, but not tangible ones that can actually lead to revolutionary change.

Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, says that you could still look at corporate tax reform or eliminating some tax deductions under this deal, but the types of comprehensive tax reform envisioned by the ...

"This is something that's gaining momentum in Washington," says Marc Goldwein, policy director for the Center for a Responsible Fiscal Budget, which supports the idea. "It has a deep fiscal impact at a time when we're desperately seeking ...

Hartung, the director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation, recently spoke with US News about his new book, Prophets of War: ...

Journalist and social critic Evgeny Morozov says the idea that the Internet can be used by the West to promote democracy in repressive regimes is simplistic. ...

By now it is obvious that the Establishment was snookered on Obamacare. The political impact of that miscalculation will be felt today, as voters repudiate the Democrats who supported the legislation. But what will happen next on healthcare? Right now, the Establishment seems clueless, and yet fortunately, insurgent Establishmentarians, led by Maria Shriver and Sandra Day O'Connor, are breaking with elite orthodoxy, offering a better healthcare solution.