Robert Borosage, co-director of the Campaign for America’s Future, gave these remarks at a press conference this week with victims of the Enron collapse and their supporters, along with attorney […]

Yesterday, the House passed an intelligence bill that included a provision requiring a comprehensive report on how climate change may exacerbate national security threats. This should be obvious and non-controversial. […]

As President Bush touched down in devastated Greensburg, Kan., on Wednesday, I thought back to April 2001, when a white policeman killed a 19-year old black man in Cincinatti, sparking riots. […]

Back in February, presidential hopeful Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., quietly made a bold move. He co-sponsored the “gold standard” of global warming bills, Sanders-Boxer, cutting greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent […]

Over at the Take Back America 2007 blog, I’m posing the question: what can we do to galvanize the grassroots and remove the grip the pharmaceutical industry has on the […]

As President Bush touched down in devastated Greensburg, Kansas today, I thought back to April 2001, when a white policeman killed a 19-year old black man in Cincinatti, sparking riots. […]

Business leaders jumped into the universal health care pool this week, as 36 companies formed the Coalition to Advance Healthcare Reform and called for a system where all individuals are […]

A little sampling of blogger reactions to yesterday’s Senate vote scuttling an attempt to allow cheaper prescription drugs to be imported from Canada. David Sirota: “How Many ‘Free Trade’ Senators […]

I spoke too soon on Friday, when I heralded a Senate vote denying a filibuster on allowing drug imports from Canada, where costs are lower. Yesterday, Big Pharma struck back, […]

There is more evidence that partially privatizing Medicare is currently hurting our seniors. Private insurers already have been given a role in delivering Medicare coverage. In addition to private companies providing […]

More evidence of how partially privatizing Medicare is currently hurting our seniors, in today’s New York Times. Private insurers already have been given a role in delivering Medicare coverage. In […]

Sunday morning news talk show hosts went 0-for-3 this week, failing to ask any of the Weekend Watchdog questions we wanted answered. Here’s what we wanted to know: For House Minority […]

Sunday morning news talk show hosts went 0-for-3 this week, failing to ask any of the Weekend Watchdog questions we wanted answered. Here’s what we wanted to know: For House Minority […]

Sunday morning news talk show hosts went 0-for-3 this week, failing to ask any of the Weekend Watchdog questions we wanted answered. Here’s what we wanted to know: For House Minority […]

Sunday morning news talk show hosts went 0-for-3 this week, failing to ask any of the Weekend Watchdog questions we wanted answered. Here’s what we wanted to know: For House Minority […]

The Sunday show hosts went 0-for-3, failing to ask any of our Weekend Watchdog questions. Even though House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said on Fox News Sunday, “I’m not […]

Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We’ll also include contact information […]

Across the world, the consensus headline out of today’s report (PDF File) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is: stopping global warming is feasible and affordable. The UK Times […]

Ten white guys in dark suits and bright ties to answer questions. Three white guys in dark suits and bright ties to ask them. Stale ideas fit the staid image […]

Senators trying to drive down prescription drug costs failed to break a drug industry-backed conservative filibuster when the issue was empowering Medicare to negotiate. But yesterday, they successfully broke an […]

While we were commemorating the Failure of Conservatism in DC yesterday, what was the blogosphere doing? D-Day saw conservative failure in the melamine scandal: “Conservatives care nothing about government, and […]

The highlight of today’s Failure of Conservatism Conference was the debate between the American Prospect’s Robert Kuttner and the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol, over the question: “Can Conservatives Be Trusted […]

The perversity of conservative failure is that by rendering government incapable or unwilling of doing anything that serves the common good, conservatives have left fewer people willing to trust that […]

Check out video of Campaign for America’s Future Co-Director Robert Borosage, kicking off today’s Failure of Conservatism Conference. “…corruption and incompetence aren’t idiosyncratic to conservatives. They are, in some ways, […]

There was a genteel smackdown between Robert Kuttner of The American Prospect and William Kristol of The Weekly Standard. But beneath the generally gentlemanly exchange between the two intellectual titans, […]

When Rick Perlstein, a senior fellow at the Campaign for America’s Future, wanted to offer an example of how conservatives have gotten government wrong, he talked about chickens. These are […]

Robert L. Borosage launched the Failure of Conservatism conference at the National Press Conference on Thursday with a broad indictment of the conservative movement and with a cautionary note for […]

This article first appeared in the Chicago Tribune. As Republican contenders for the presidential nomination gather for their first debate Thursday night at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, […]

Today is the Failure of Conservatism Conference, hosted by Campaign for America’s Future and The American Prospect, which will seek to make the case that “the failures of the Bush […]

  Today is the Failure of Conservatism Conference , hosted by Campaign for America’s Future and The American Prospect , which will seek to make the case that “the failures of […]

Over at the Take Back America 2007 blog, I shared my experience being helped by the extraordinary Maria Leavey, as nominations are being accepted through May 6 for the new […]

Getting responsible about global warming is another way to speak to the concerns of secular voters (not to mention the religious voters who make up the Creation Care movement). And […]

The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol (part of Thursday’s Big Con Face-Off, RSVP now!) today published online this from Irwin Stelzer, warning fellow conservatives of horrible developments ahead: …part of the […]

Theoretically, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is the sort of candidate that can help conservatives address their secular problem. With his record supporting reproductive freedom and equality for […]

With our Failure of Conservatism Conference coming up on Thursday, it’s a good time to check in on the conservatives’ “Secular Problem.” You may recall that during this year’s Conservative […]

Jonathan Powers remembers well President Bush’s infamous speech four years ago today in front of the “Mission Accomplished” banner on the USS Abraham Lincoln. At the time, Powers was a […]

Jonathan Powers remembers well President Bush’s infamous speech four years ago today in front of the “Mission Accomplished” banner on the USS Abraham Lincoln. At the time, Powers was a captain […]

More than 3.5 million people will receive health insurance and 2.7 million people will receive pension benefits if Congress passes the Employee Free Choice Act, according to a report released […]

More than 3.5 million people will receive health insurance and 2.7 million people will receive pension benefits if Congress passes the Employee Free Choice Act, according to a report released […]

We were hoping to hear some tough questions asked of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain on the Sunday talk shows. For Rice (CBS’ […]