by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 12, 2012 | Blog
The fight to overturn the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling and to undo its effects on our democracy is now being ratcheted up as a spectrum of progressive organizations are cooperating on multiple fronts. The groups, which include the Campaign for America's...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 12, 2012 | Blog
Great economic cataclysms have in the past knocked the super rich off their stride. Our Great Recession's deep pockets, stunning new income data show, are bucking the historical tide. We can wait all we want, but sometimes history never gets around to repeating....
by Bill Scher | Mar 12, 2012 | Blog
From progressive activists to mortgage bankers to Wall Street traders, the drumbeat is getting louder and louder for Federal Housing Finance Agency Acting Director Edward DeMarco to end his resistance and act to end the housing crisis by allowing principal to be...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 12, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Perhaps my reaction to the latest unemployment statistics is colored by the fact that I'm reading them in Africa, far from the comfortable familiarity of Washington, New York, and California. There's nothing like the songs of unfamiliar birds as the sun rises over the...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 9, 2012 | Blog
Conservatives love Small Town America™. They extol its virtues all the time. Too bad conservative economics is wiping Small Town America™ off the map. Move over ! Two years ago, I wrote that Colorado Springs was a conservative "Utopia," for its rejection of tax...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 9, 2012 | Blog
Just what is this Koch Industries? Should it be called a "company?" If so we need to re-think the idea of what a company and a business is supposed to be. Even the brother of Koch Industries owners David and Charles Koch called the company an "organized crime"...
