by Brian Dockstader | Sep 29, 2009 | Blog
For six years the Campaign for America's Future organized the annual Take Back America conference, the largest annual gathering of progressives in the country. At the conference progressives came together to discuss how to improve the country, through goals like...
by Bill Scher | Sep 28, 2009 | Blog
D-Day is tired of the kabuki dance of leaking the end of the public option then denying it publicly, the latest incarnation coming from the Senate Majority Leader's office: Harry Reid pulled the yo-yo trick today. First some anonymous staffers were quoted in the NYT...
by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 28, 2009 | Blog
A conservative world leader and two world-famous economists who challenge conservative world leaders have joined up to call for a totally new global economic yardstick. And they want that yardstick to measure inequality. Sometime early this fall, new statistics are...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 27, 2009 | Blog
Here is a wrap-up on the G20 Summit. On the ground: The thing that stands out in my mind from actually being in Pittsburgh while the summit took place is the way the city reacted. The city was literally deserted, buildings were barricaded as if the Chinese or Russian...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 25, 2009 | Blog
"The fundamental truth about health care in every country is that national values, national character, determine how each system works." Prof. Uwe Reinhardt, Princeton Professor & Health Care Economist "I think health care is a privilege. I wouldn't call it a right."...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 25, 2009 | Blog
The big "Bail Out The People" demonstration marched through Pittsburgh. There were somewhere between 3-5,000 people. They were peaceful. There was a contingent of anarchists, wearing masks of various types, shouting with raised fists which needless to say made the...
