by Richard Eskow | May 23, 2014 | Blog, Financial Reform
In 10th century Japan a "pillow book" was a form of diary, a place to gather notes, lists and other scraps of paper and reflect upon them before retiring to bed. A "court lady" to the Empress used hers to depict life in the royal household, and today "The Pillow Book...
by Elizabeth Warren | May 22, 2014 | Blog, Populist Majority, The New Populism
[fve]http://youtu.be/tUTtbvo5_Zc[/fve] This speech was prepared for delivery today at The New Populism conference in Washington. Thank you, Bob Borosage and Roger Hickey for all your hard work, for inviting me here today, and for featuring my book, "A Fighting...
by Robert Borosage | May 22, 2014 | Blog, Populist Majority, The New Populism
These remarks were prepared for delivery at The New Populism Conference in Washington, May 22, 2014. What is the new populism? The Princeton dictionary defines populism as “a political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle...
by Bill Scher | May 21, 2014 | Blog
[fve]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X8M5ei35zM[/fve] As we near the congressional summer session, three factors are driving the possibility of immigration reform: 1. Anti-immigrant forces have failed to win any victories in the Republican primaries. 2. Democrats and...
by Dave Johnson | May 21, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Populist Majority, The New Populism
Word is there's an economic recovery going on. But approximately 99 percent of us have no reason to believe that. The public sees that the government bailed out the biggest banks and that the "recovery" is going really well for a very few people. But most Americans...
by Sam Pizzigati | May 20, 2014 | Blog, Economy
These haven’t been the best of times for the young men and women attending America’s colleges and universities. Or for the faculty who teach them. Those students are graduating, if they can afford to get that far, with levels of debt that would have seemed...
