by Sam Pizzigati | Aug 13, 2009 | Blog
By every measure that matters, relatively equal nations far outperform nations where income and wealth concentrate at the top. A powerful new analysis from the UK explores these contrasts — and explains them. Huge numbers of people in the United States hold...
by Leo Gerard | Aug 13, 2009 | Blog
They came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 13, 2009 | Blog
Recently, Mike Lux posed a question to GOP leadership: What will it take you condemn the hatefulness? Glenn Beck has said Barack Obama hates white people, and jokes about assassinating the Speaker of the House. Rush Limbaugh makes repeated and extended comparisons...
by Brian Dockstader | Aug 11, 2009 | Blog
O Sarah Palin, the gift that keeps on giving, no matter how earnestly we say, "no, really, we insist, we've had enough." We said this after Dr. Palin's informative essay, penned in the Washington Post about the big hoax of global warming and why we should do nothing...
by Sara Robinson | Aug 11, 2009 | Blog
Writing about fascism for an American audience is always a fraught business. Invariably, a third of the readers will dismiss the topic (and your faithful blogger's basic sanity) out of hand. Either they've got their own definition of fascism and whatever's going on...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 11, 2009 | Blog
Campaign for America’s Future has released a report, Pittsburgh —The Rest of the Story (pdf file, 12 pages). This report tells the story of "Pittsburgh's transition from the old to the new." A lot is happening in Pittsburgh this summer and fall. Netroots Nation is...
