by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 7, 2012 | Blog
There were rumblings that Thursday's Netroots Nation keynote address by Eric Schneiderman, the New York attorney general and the head of an Obama administration task force on Wall Street fraud, was going to be disrupted by protestors. And indeed, as Schneiderman began...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 7, 2012 | Blog
I'm at the Netroots Nation 2012 conference in Providence. The weather has been pretty good, a brief rainshower but otherwise sunny and pleasant day. There are panels all day, breakout sessions on various topics, state caucuses, parties, lunches, dinners, parties,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 7, 2012 | Blog
There is some good news in the fight for homeowners and against the big banks. Homeowners who are facing foreclosures because of unfair and often illegal practices by the major financial Goliaths are learning how to organize, how to shame bank executives and how to...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 7, 2012 | Blog
Appeared in the June 25, 2012 edition of The Nation. Co-written with Katrina vanden Heuvel. This year will feature the most ideologically polarized election since the Reagan-Carter face-off of 1980. A radical-right Republican Party, backed by big-money interests, has...
by Roger Hickey | Jun 7, 2012 | Blog
Democracy lost in Wisconsin. Gov. Scott Walker kept his job only after outspending the recall movement 8 to 1. And that doesn’t even count the millions spent by secretive third-party groups. Now, they are trying to buy the November elections. To stop them, you need to...
