by Bill Scher | Jan 25, 2010 | Blog
Today, Harold Ford Jr., Democratic Leadership Council president, "Morning Joe" pundit, and now early applicant for the Martha Coakley Award For Spectacular Senatorial Flameouts, laid out his 2010 vision in the New York Times ope
by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 24, 2010 | Blog
A relative handful of Americans, a key congressional panel forecasts, will take home more this year than half the nation's taxpayers combined. Americans worried about the ever-intensifying concentration of wealth at America’s economic summit have been focusing...
by Eric Lotke | Jan 23, 2010 | Blog
You know by now about the Supreme Court decision, Citizens United v. FEC. Corporations are people, and corporate spending on political campaigns is the same as free speech. Here’s what Barack Obama said in Audacity of Hope, when he was halfway between a community...
by Sara Robinson | Jan 22, 2010 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
My little series on the turn of the decade (which started last week) was originally conceived as a two-parter: a look back to the past, and a look ahead to the future. That changed a bit this week, when the present rose up and made itself known in a very big way....
by Dave Johnson | Jan 22, 2010 | Blog
Mostly I'm posting this because of the cool picture. I mean, just look at this thing: Tesla Motors lands $465M loan with feds to build Palo Alto plant Tesla Motors and the U.S. Department of Energy on Thursday signed a landmark $465 million loan agreement that will...
