by Richard Eskow | Jun 17, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision
We live on. Whether you believe in an afterlife or not, we live on. We live on in the memories of those we leave behind. We live on in words, in gestures, in glances, in anything that changes the heart of another person forever. We live on in loved ones and in...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 16, 2016 | Blog, Retirement Security
Years ago a political scientist said that the mass media can't influence what people think, but it can influence what people think about. Today it does both. If you’re a billionaire who wants to manipulate public opinion, that means you’ll keep feeding it stories that...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 7, 2016 | Blog
Not so long ago, Social Security was endangered by a “bipartisan” consensus that sought to cut its benefits – already lower than those of comparable countries – as part of a “grand bargain.” President Obama even put a slow-motion benefit cut into one of his proposed...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 5, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision
In the end, Muhammad Ali wasn't just the most important athlete of his time. And he wasn't just a world-changing activist. He was even more than those things: he was a unified human being. His occupation was inseparable from his aspirations, his spiritual ideals...
by Richard Eskow | May 16, 2016 | Blog, Economy
A new study by the Pew Research Center spurred a rash of headlines last week about “the dying middle class." But the word “dying” might be more appropriate if we were watching the regrettable but inevitable effects of natural forces at work. We're not. We're...
