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...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 29, 2010 | Blog
New data — for 2008 — have revealed a shrinking gap between the rich and the rest of us. But the nation's top high-income tracker isn't celebrating. And neither should we. Will the Great Recession, once the dust settles, leave the United States less unequal? A...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 28, 2010 | Blog
There's a battle going on between those who are defending Social Security - that is to say, the "good guys" - and those like economist Alice Rivlin and Wall Street banker/giveaway king Neel Kashkari, who would cut it. The attackers pretend to see nuances that don't...
