by Bill Scher | Aug 22, 2008 | Blog
Insurance Company Rules were in full effect this week, from New Orleans to Pennsylvania to The Hamptons, as communities rallied to raise funds for ill friends. AmeriCorps volunteer Mark Smith has a hospital bill of more than $90,000, after relocating to help rebuild...
by Bill Scher | Aug 21, 2008 | Blog
The big political news today (so far) is that Sen. John McCain couldn't remember the number of homes he owns.. (Getting a little less attention, his staff then told the Politico that the answer is four, when in fact, it is at least seven and as many as ten.) Democrats...
by Sara Robinson | Aug 20, 2008 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
This blog has been covering the shameful collapse of America's infrastructure on almost a weekly basis, so it should come as no surprise to even our most casual readers that the physical structures and systems that support our entire way of life are in serious...
by Bill Scher | Aug 20, 2008 | Blog
In recent posts, I've shown that conservative talk of an "All of the Above" energy policy flies in the face of repeated conservative actions to defeat anything that significantly i
by Bill Scher | Aug 19, 2008 | Blog
Robert Borosage has asked us on this site—bloggers and commenters alike—to explore "How Do We Seize The Obama Moment?" and substantively advance a bold progressive agenda, after laying out an "inside-outside" activist strategy with Katrina vanden Heuvel in The Nation....
by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 18, 2008 | Blog
On "Meet the Bloggers" Friday, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said that there is a "collapse" of the middle class and that nothing short of a revolution will be needed to reverse it. "What we really need is a political revolution in this country," Sanders said, beginning...
