by Richard Eskow | Nov 12, 2013 | Blog
“There’s something happening here/what it is ain’t exactly clear …” When Steve Stills wrote the dystopian anthem “For What It’s Worth” in 1966, it resonated with listeners who understood that great if half-hidden transformations were underway. There’s been a turn...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 11, 2013 | Blog
It’s not easy to maintain a civil tone while describing the magnitude of the misbehavior among executives at Wall Street’s largest institutions. To criticize bankers is to describe large-scale wrongdoing, mass-produced outrages that lead to widespread misery. It can’t...
by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 10, 2013 | Blog
Americans are gaining, ever so slowly, a more accurate picture of just how wide the gap has stretched between the nation's most fabulously privileged and everyone else. How unequal have workplaces in the United States become? Our best answer happens to come...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 8, 2013 | Blog
The headline jobs number of the Bureau of Labor Statistics October jobs report --204,000 new jobs – is higher than expected, given that the report covers the time of the government shutdown. Although the report notes that furloughed federal workers were largely...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 6, 2013 | Blog
Everyone is reading the tea leaves to understand what the Virginia or New York City or New Jersey elections might mean in 2014 and 2016. Does Christie's election mean Republican "moderates" are ascendant? Does Bill de Blasio's election show that progressives are the...
by Bill Scher | Nov 6, 2013 | Blog
Tonight at 6:30 PM in Washington, DC progressives inlcuding Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Van Jones and Rep. Donna Edwards will gather to honor grassroots champions, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Leo Gerard and Margery Tabankin at the Celebrating America's Future 2013...
