by Robert Borosage | Jan 20, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision
The annual State of the Union address that President Obama will deliver tonight before the Republican-controlled Congress serves many functions. It provides the president with a chance to boast upon progress made, and to highlight next steps. It frames, particularly...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 15, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Legislators in the new Congress haven’t even cut the curtains for their offices, but it is already clear that the right has no clue and the “center” offers no hope. Republican Mitch McConnell, newly installed as Senate majority leader, announced that his goal is not...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 7, 2015 | Progressive Vision
The Institute for Policy Studies on Wednesday is honoring Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) for his 50 years of service in Congress. This is an edited version of a tribute to Conyers written for that event in Washington. It is difficult to sum up the works of a man whose...
by Robert Borosage | Dec 22, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
After the debilitating defeats of 2014, Democrats face a harsh winter, wandering in a bleak wilderness, trying to find the way out. Redemption will come only if Democrats use this time to rethink their course, and develop new ideas, a clearer sense of their own...
by Robert Borosage | Dec 19, 2014 | Blog, Populist Majority
The debate in the Democratic Party is being framed in much of the mainstream media as a struggle between a “pragmatic center” that wants to “get things done” and an angry populist wing – led by Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Sherrod Brown and others – that...
