by Terrance Heath | Apr 30, 2012 | Blog
Depending on your point of view, the results on austerity are in. The roll call European countries with shrunken economies, mired in recession, is identical to the list of European countries yoked to austerity economics — Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Spain, Greece (of...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 30, 2012 | Blog
Two Occupy movement volunteers, a Chicago community organizer, an Atlanta health care activist and a crusader against "prison-based gerrymandering" have been nominated for the annual Maria Leavey Tribute Award, which honors an unsung progressive hero. The deserving...
by Bill Scher | Apr 30, 2012 | Uncategorized
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Higher...
by Sam Pizzigati | Apr 29, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
Bits and bytes would be doing a lot more to help make our lives less nasty, brutish, and short if we shared wealth as routinely as bandwidth. From San Francisco, a new lesson in that reality. A brick factory makes 10,000 bricks a day. But then the factory happens on a...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 28, 2012 | Blog
Today's false equivalence award goes to Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein for their Washington Post op-ed titled, Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem. This false equivalence award is noteworthy, as the authors claim to be writing about false...
