by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 2, 2010 | Blog
Let's try to get more precise. America's super rich aren't 'buying' our elections. They're making an 'investment' in prosperity. Their own. And so what have Americans learned from the now-concluded 2010 mid-term election campaign, aside from the existence of an Aqua...
by Alan Jenkins | Nov 2, 2010 | Blog
Whatever the results this Election Day, it’s clear that visionary progressive ideas will be less welcome at the start of the next Congress. And that’s saying something, given their track record in this Congress. But with that reality comes a new opportunity: the...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 1, 2010 | Blog
As an election strategy conservatives blocked or watered down everything they could that might help the economy, hoping voters would blame the President's party for job losses. Tomorrow we will learn if this strategy succeeded. But Wednesday can we start doing things...
by Zach Carter | Nov 1, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
Tom Perriello always knew it would be hard to hold his seat in Congress. The progressive Democrat from Albemarle County, Va. represents a district designed to nullify liberal votes with a wide swath of conservative countryside. He was elected in 2008, riding President...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 1, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
Perspective's hard to come by in the heat of the moment, but it's already clear that this week's election is profoundly important. The forces of small-"d" democracy are up against a cabal of ultra-powerful financiers who, in an unending quest for greater wealth and...
