by Dave Johnson | Jul 30, 2010 | Blog
Our current economic model depends on ever-increasing consumption. This model worked during the early industrial revolution worked because it filled existing needs: Farmers depending on horses needed tractors. Kitchens needed gas stoves and refrigerators, etc....
by Richard Eskow | Jul 30, 2010 | Blog
Mort Zuckerman's recent opinion piece in the Financial Times, "Obama needs to stop baiting business," is a tawdry, sorry spectacle. Paul Krugman's already explained how Zuckerman, the publisher of US News & World Report and the New York Daily News, distorted the...
by Sara Robinson | Jul 29, 2010 | Blog
The beat goes on. In the nearly two weeks since I wrote Part I of this series, an armed gunman was arrested en route to assaulting an obscure progressive foundation in San Francisco -- one that's often been at the center of Glenn Beck's blackboard (which has become...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 29, 2010 | Blog
More than 60 organizations that represent more than 60 million Americans are banding together to deliver a straightforward message to politicians this fall: Don't mess with Social Security. "Don't turn Social Security in the scapegoat for the deficit," said AFSCME...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 29, 2010 | Blog
Dear Senate Majority Leader, you are letting the public down. We, the People need you to get things done but everything is being blocked by a minority. The public doesn't understand that everything is being filibustered, so they are not applying the pressure that...
by Bill Scher | Jul 29, 2010 | Blog
Earlier this week, NYTimes.com highlighted the above Bloggingheads.tv clip of Conor Friedersdorf and myself discussing the effectiveness of, in Conor's words, the attitude of parts of both conservative and progressive movements to treat politics as "war" with...
