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The Working Class Has Spoken. Will Democrats Listen?
Massachusetts voters sent a strong signal to Washington lawmakers Tuesday that they want results—and aren't seeing any. Not on health care reform, not on job creation and not on fixing the nation's economy. Voters also sent another powerful message for Democrats:...
The Two-ness of Being Barack Obama, Pt. 2
The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife,—this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost. He would not Africanize America,...
Wall Street Rumble: A Fight We're All Ready To Have
It does not matter whether today's pronouncement on financial reform by President Obama was prompted by Tuesday's election disaster in Massachusetts or was a long-building unleashing of his inner populist. What matters is the potential for real White House leadership...
It’s Official. Corporations Rule.
People have been wondering for years who runs our country. People or wealthy corporations? Today the Supreme Court settled the debate. Today’s decision, Citizens United v. FEC, tilts the balance of power in the country even farther towards wealthy and corporate...
Monopoly Corporatocracy Replaces Democracy
The Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 to make George W. Bush President allow large corporations to spend as much as needed to place their candidates in office, so that they will pass laws: giving them access to government funds restricting their smaller competitors allowing...
The Two-ness of Being Barack Obama, Pt. 1
...It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a...
A Constitutional Amendment For Public Campaign Financing: Now Is The Time
Whenever I'm discussing with friends the frustrations of the legislative process, the influence of corporate lobbyists invariably comes up. And that usually leads my friends to declare we won't accomplish anything without public financing of political campaigns. I've...
Progressive Breakfast - 1/21/2010
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. Obama Seeks To Summon Spirit Of...
Poll Shouts The Message Massachusetts Voters Were Sending
The numbers in the Research 2000 exit poll released Wednesday by MoveOn.org and Democracy for America speak for themselves: The Massachusetts election was not a call to go back to conservatism. It was, as Robert Borosage on our site said earlier today and as such...
My Thoughts On Massachusetts -- Who Will Make The Case For Government And Democracy?
The blogs and airwaves are full of explanations for the MA Senate special election's outcome, mostly involving people being upset at particulars of the health care bill. But I don't really think that the people who voted were all that well-informed about differences...
