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The Pillow Book of Tim Geithner
"The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon" is considered an invaluable record of a pampered and long-vanished Japanese imperial court. Someday we may look at former Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's memoir "Stress Test" the same way.
The New Populism Is A Fight For America's Values
The game is rigged. The rich and the powerful have lobbyists, lobbyists and lawyers and plenty of friends in Congress. Now we can whine about it. We can whimper. Or we can fight back. Me? I’m fighting back.
Progressive Breakfast
The New Populism Conference, With Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders, Today 9 AM to 5:30 PM Click to watch livestream of the New Populism Conference, and check out conference agenda at ourfuture.org/thenewpopulismconference. Conference will be free to...
What Is The New Populism?
The new populism stands in the grand American tradition of opposition to financial aristocracies. It is founded in today's reality. Its reform agenda gains broad support. And it is growing, challenging the limits of both parties.
The GOP Death Panel
The death panels are real and they’ve been found! But it’s not President Obama or some evil communist plot that’s putting politics over lives - it’s Republicans. Republicans have created their own death panels.
We Are In a Crisis — a Moral Crisis
Like justice, caring for the vulnerable, embracing the stranger, healing the sick, protecting workers, fairness to all members of the human family, and educating children should never be relegated to the margins of our social consciousness.
Norquist v. Ingraham and the Momentum for Immigration Reform
Grover Norquist visited Laura Ingraham's radio show, then chastised her and her allies because "they throw around ‘amnesty’ in criticizing every single reform that we’re looking at." The left is united and the right is divided.
Progressive Breakfast
Bernie '16? Salon's Jim Newell makes the case: "At the least, he could play a vital role in setting Clinton’s policy agenda before she moves on to the general election ... The biggest question facing Hillary Clinton heading into 2016, aside from whether she actually...
Full Employment: The First Principle Of New Populism
There is simply no reason whatsoever that we can't have full employment – except for policies that are intentionally keeping us from having full employment. Our New Populism conference will make that a central theme.
Why Democrats Need Bernie Sanders to Run for President
Sen. Bernie Sanders may actually run for president. Assuming he rejects the Naderish option of running as an independent, a Sanders run could be excellent news for Democrats — in the next presidential race and beyond.
