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A Politics for the 99 Percent

Appeared in the June 25, 2012 edition of The Nation. Co-written with Katrina vanden Heuvel. This year will feature the most ideologically polarized election since the Reagan-Carter face-off of 1980. A radical-right Republican Party, backed by big-money interests, has...

Progressive Breakfast

MORNING MESSAGE: They Bought Wisconsin. Don't Let Them Buy America. OurFuture.org's Roger Hickey: "Democracy lost in Wisconsin. Gov. Scott Walker kept his job only after outspending the recall movement 8 to 1. And that doesn’t even count the millions spent by...

They Bought Wisconsin Dont Let Them Buy America

Democracy lost in Wisconsin. Gov. Scott Walker kept his job only after outspending the recall movement 8 to 1. And that doesn’t even count the millions spent by secretive third-party groups. Now, they are trying to buy the November elections. To stop them, you need to...

Future Tense Mourning the Political Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury, whose death at the age of 91 was announced today, played an important role for an entire generation of kids like me. Important? You might even call it "lifesaving." When things around us seemed unbearable, or incomprehensible, or soul-killing, his books...

Who Bought The Wisconsin Election

Scott Walker survived his recall. In case you were wondering whether our democracy is totally fucked, read this about the last minute ads that poured into Wisconsin: CAV describes itself as a "grassroots advocacy organization created by leaders from a wide array of...

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