by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 30, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The free market made us do it. Ask members of any American corporate board of directors why they pay their CEO so much and you’ll get some variation on this market-inevitability theme. To compete effectively in the world economy, Corporate America’s argument goes, we...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 30, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Gender Justice
The Prime Minister of Morocco recently compared women to “lanterns” or “chandeliers,” saying that “when women went to work outside, the light went out of their homes.” His remarks, which ran counter to Morocco’s constitutionally-guaranteed rights for women, promptly...
by Harvey J Kaye | Jun 29, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
In his New York Times column last Friday, "The Spiritual Recession" (June 27, 2014), conservative David Brooks posed the same question he essentially first posed seventeen years ago in "A Return to National Greatness: A Manifesto for a Lost Creed" (Weekly Standard,...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 27, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Mississippi Republican Sen. Thad Cochran defeated primary challenger Chris McDaniel with the help of black Democrats, and the tea party exploded with rage. Now, to quote Nina Simone, “Everybody Knows About Mississippi, Goddam!” It all started strangely enough. The...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 27, 2014 | Blog, Populist Majority
A recent Pew Research Center poll on political attitudes and polarization that is making the rounds, "Beyond Red vs. Blue: The Political Typology," shows something that Democratic politicians should pay attention to this election season, because conservatives...
by Harvey J Kaye | Jun 27, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
From Thomas Paine's pamphlet "Common Sense" and Jefferson's Declaration of Independence to FDR's "Four Freedoms" and MLK's "I Have a Dream" speeches, democratic words have inspired us to make America freer, more equal, and more democratic. Hoping that they continue to...
