by Zach Carter | Jun 10, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
Conference Committee negotiations on Wall Street reform begin today, with several key battles still unresolved. Thanks to intense progressive pressure, those negotiations are going to be televised live. You can watch the sessions on the web right here, using a stream...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 10, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Saying that the Obama "stimulus" was not big enough, conservatives are demanding that the government massively increase deficit spending to create badly-needed jobs. Newt Gingrich, at the conservative media outlet Human Events, calls for an Economic Freedom Act that...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 9, 2010 | Blog
Britain's new Conservative Party prime minister has an idea for ending pay excess in the public sector. Should overpaid execs in the private sector — in the United States — now be starting to shudder? Conservatives politicians have always enjoyed bashing...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 9, 2010 | Blog
Where RIghts went Wrong: What Happened to the Rights Revolution? Palladian Room Breakout Nan Aron Rea Carey Adam Luna Anthony D. Romero Kierra Johnson Anthony Romero, the president of the American Civil Liberties Union, did not mince words earlier today when he...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 9, 2010 | Blog
Most people know Progressive Insurance from its quirky commercials, starring a character named Flo who staffs the checkout counter at an supermarket that sells insurance in neatly labeled boxes. But the leaders of the nation's leading progressive activist...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 8, 2010 | Blog
Life can only be understood backward, said Kierkegaard, but it has to be lived forward. That's the only explanation I can offer for the strange turn of events that led to me becoming an AIG executive, then a progressive writer/blogger, and to my plans to speak...
