by Dave Johnson | Oct 27, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Populist Majority
Democrats should to learn a lesson from this year's election campaigns: Democrats should be Democrats. Democrats should not try to run away from the things Democrats stand for. It doesn't work. Supporting Republicans ideas is not going to win you Republican votes. It...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 27, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism
This should be a banner year for Republicans. To pick up the six seats they need to take control of the Senate, Republicans need only to pocket three open seats in red-state South Dakota, West Virginia, and Montana, and knock off endangered incumbents in states Obama...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 24, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The New York Times' David Brooks writes today in "The Working Nation": " Western economies delivered broad and growing prosperity for the middle class. This nurtured a general faith in political institutions and culminated in the democratic triumphalism of the 1990s."...
by Sam Pizzigati | Oct 24, 2014 | Blog
The latest annual Global Wealth Report from the Credit Suisse Research Institute has everything you would expect from a report on global wealth. And one thing you wouldn’t: a mystery. The media coverage of the new Credit Suisse report hasn’t focused much at all on...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 24, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Calling gay people names is nothing new. We’ve been called many things throughout the ages. But “gremlins”? That’s a new one. The first — and perhaps only — Wingnut WTF prize goes this week to South Carolina Republican congressional...
by Bill Scher | Oct 24, 2014 | Blog
If you have been watching the midterm elections closely, you have seen how Republican candidates are leaning left in order to take control of the Senate, how they are hugging Social Security and avoiding actual policy proposals that would ruin any chance to win votes...
