by Richard Eskow | Aug 12, 2014 | Blog, Populist Majority, Winning Issues for 2014
They say that one swallow doesn’t make a summer, and one Politico story certainly doesn’t make a campaign season. But if a recent article there is correct – if the Democratic Party’s strategy this year really is “Running as a Dem (while) sounding like a Republican” –...
by Bill Scher | Aug 11, 2014 | Blog
At The Week today I argued "Why the GOP Should Tank the Midterms." In short, Republicans not ready for prime time. They were too divided to govern one house of the Congress without constantly humiliating themselves, so how do you think running two will do? Much of...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 11, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
No surprise, Americans are in a foul temper. In an August NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, 71 percent considered the country on the wrong track. Nearly half thought the economy was still in recession. Over three-fourths were not confident their children’s generation will...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 8, 2014 | Blog
Problem: Your right-wing brother-in-law is plugged into the FOX-Limbaugh lie machine, and keeps sending you emails about "Obama spending" and "Obama deficits" and how the "stimulus" just made things worse. Solution: Here are three "reality-based" charts to send to...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 8, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
You don't get to be an actor by being shy, so it should not have surprised me that Olivia Russell would do something attention-getting while she was serving me and a guest earlier this week at the Carolina Kitchen, a small chain restaurant in Washington's Brentwood...
by Bill Scher | Aug 8, 2014 | Blog
Three Republican Senators up for re-election this year, Sens. Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Susan Collins (Maine) and Lamar Alexander (Tenn.) voted for the bipartisan immigration reform bill despised by the anti-immigrant right-wing. And as of last night's victory by Sen....
