by Dave Johnson | Sep 30, 2014 | Blog
You may have heard that there is an oil and gas "boom" happening in the US. You might not know that there is a ban on exporting our own oil. This ban is good for the country but bad for oil companies. And the oil industry is attempting an end run around Congress to do...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 30, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Trade
Our 2010 Reagan Revolution Home To Roost series, especially the post Reagan Revolution Home To Roost — In Charts described the beginning of the great decoupling of the American economy from the middle class. The summary: Conservative policies transformed the United...
by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 28, 2014 | Blog, Economy
What is it going to take to save the planet from environmental devastation? Sheer people power? We certainly saw that on the eve of last week’s United Nations Climate Summit in New York. Some 400,000 marchers packed the streets of Manhattan. Millions more rallied that...
by Bill Scher | Sep 26, 2014 | Blog
Earlier this month I observed, over at Real Clear Politics, that Republicans have been leaning left to survive the midterm elections, belying notions of a conservative-fueled Republican wave. And on this site my colleague Isaiah J. Poole noted that the GOP has been...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 26, 2014 | Blog, Financial Reform
The payday lending industry has up to now escaped comprehensive regulation from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but the agency is currently working to change that – and payday lenders aren't expected to let that happen without a vicious fight. That's why...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 26, 2014 | Blog, Populist Majority, Winning Issues for 2014
[fve]http://youtu.be/QxLnH6jp7eE?list=UUcnNWp-tx3-FaCWV4pMFTAg[/fve] Last week on The Zero Hour we talked about the upcoming election with Celinda Lake, a leading strategist for progressive organizations and liberal Democratic candidates. The conversation was...
