Robert Reich: "Herbert Hoover and Andrew Mellon thought their economic policies would purge the rottenness out of the system and lead to a more moral life. Instead, it purged morality out of the system and lead to a more rotten life for millions of Americans.  And that's exactly what Republicans are offering yet again."

EJ Dionne: "In any athletic contest, winning teams play their own game and force the other side to play that game, too. The same being true in elections, it's remarkable how timidity leads Democrats to fight this year's campaign on Republican terms."

The Guardian: "The state of Virginia this week plans to carry out its first execution of a woman in nearly a century, despite claims that Teresa Lewis has severe learning difficulties."

Christian Science Monitor: "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Mahmoud Abbas plan to meet again Wednesday in Jerusalem for Israeli-Palestinian talks that are threatened by a dispute over settlement building."

Huffington Post: "In a win for President Barack Obama and his political allies, Senate Democrats on Tuesday won a crucial vote to clear the way for a bill to create a $30 billion government fund to help open up lending for credit-starved small businesses."

Washington Post: "President Barack Obama is asking Congress to approve at least $50 billion in long-term investments in the nation's roads, railways and runways."

E.J. Dionne: "All but forgotten is the fact that our nation's extraordinary prosperity from the end of World War II to the 1970s was in significant part the result of union contracts that, in words the right wing hated Barack Obama for saying in 2008, "spread the wealth around." A broad middle class with spending … Continue reading When unions mattered, prosperity was shared

Washington Post: "The Democrats of 1994 had been elected when radio was king, and they had forgotten how to run and how to raise money. Most of today's vulnerable Democrats (such as Virginia's Perriello and Ohio's John Boccieri) are young, hungry and battle-tested."

Rep. Jim McDermott: "We answered their call, and I believe health reform will help American businesses and workers in three primary ways: ensuring small businesses can afford health care for their employees, making certain workers can take home a greater share of their wages, and promoting entrepreneurship."

Roxana Saberi: "For several weeks last year, I shared a cell in Tehran's notorious Evin prison with Mahvash Sabet and Fariba Kamalabadi, two leaders of Iran's minority Bahai faith. I came to see them as my sisters, women whose only crimes were to peacefully practice their religion and resist pressure from their captors to compromise … Continue reading In Iran, shackling the Baha'i torchbearers