by Dave Johnson | Dec 12, 2011 | Blog
I am in DC covering the Take Back the Capitol "99 in DC" events. On Tuesday I wrote about the efforts of unemployed people and others to get in to talk to their senators and representatives. (Watch some of them tell their stories.) On Wednesday they marched to “K...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 12, 2011 | Blog
Last week’s Take Back the Capitol action brought two or three thousand unemployed people to the capitol. These representatives of the 99% went to the offices of 99 Senators and Representatives who now represent the 1%, where they were ignored and doors were closed on...
by admin | Dec 12, 2011 | Blog
James Fallows: Before the episode recedes fully from the news, please read this item, by Jonathan Cohn on Thursday evening, about the extraordinary step the Senate Republicans took that day. Cohn says that the Republican minority's success in blocking a vote on...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 11, 2011 | Blog
(If the video doesn't appear on your browser, it's available here) Was on Current TV's The Young Turks with Cenk Uygur the other day, appearing with the crew and participating in a "Power Panel" discussion with Glenn Greenwald and Paul Waldman. The...
by Sam Pizzigati | Dec 11, 2011 | Blog, Economy
One puts on football pageants. Another makes millions on a virtual farm. From Too Much, the Institute for Policy Studies inequality weekly, we present the year's ten most avaricious. All ten remind us just how much needs to change, economically and politically, in...
by Terrance Heath | Dec 9, 2011 | Blog
Just in time for the holidays, conservatives are presenting their latest gift to America's political discourse. Not satisfied with having creating and popularizing climate change denialism, and not even inequality denialism, it looks like conservatives are applying...
