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Daily Kos — ... program. It's everyone else's fault. Bill Gates: [My] charity and education: a state of the situation. Roger Simon: Barack Obama has been president for more than a week now, and nothing has changed. Nothing. The stock market is still way down, layoffs continue, and we still don’t have universal health care. Where is the change we can believe in? Nobody told us it was going to take more than a week. Harold Meyerson: A few months ago, Robert Cassidy found himself pondering ...

Days of future past
The Sideshow — Harold Meyerson says some unusual people have suddenly started having some Second Thoughts on Trade: A few months ago, Robert Cassidy found himself pondering whether trade actually benefited the American economy. "I couldn't prove it," he says. "Did it benefit U.S. multinational corporations? Yes. But I cannot prove that it benefits the economy." Such doubts would hardly be news if they came from an established critic of free trade. But Robert Cassidy was the chief U.S. negotiator on China's 1999 market access agreement with the United States -- the document ...