by Richard Eskow | Jan 22, 2015 | Blog, Populist Majority, Progressive Vision
Today's American right is burdened with a highly specialized and hyper-amplified sense of outrage. That outrage was triggered during this week's State of the Union speech, especially by the president's off-the-cuff response to a group of Republicans who sarcastically...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 19, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision
(Previously published, with some revisions) Here it comes again. This holiday weekend we'll see a lot of media coverage of Martin Luther King, Jr. But we'll hear very little about who he really was - a brave and visionary leader whose vision is as relevant today as...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 16, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
It's tough to be disabled in America. It's tough anywhere, of course. But, as Rebecca Vallas notes: "According to the OECD, the U.S. disability benefit system is the most restrictive and least generous of all member countries, except for Korea." And nowhere else in...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 14, 2015 | Blog, Retirement Security
President Obama will deliver his State of the Union speech next Tuesday amid a new flurry of Republican attacks on Social Security. Will he stand firm and defend the popular program, or step aside and let the attacks continue? Changing The Rules No wonder Republicans...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 12, 2015 | Blog, Populist Majority, The New Populism
“Americans don't want angry, defensive figures running for president,” Democratic operative Will Marshall told McClatchy's David Lightman this week. But who, precisely, is angry and defensive? As the pushback to Wall Street's influence on government grows stronger, it...