by Larry Cohen | May 19, 2015 | Democracy, Progressive Vision
More than 500 active leaders from 56 organizations spent Saturday at Iowa State University in general sessions and workshops uniting around issues and strategies at the Working Families Summit. I had been to Iowa in previous presidential election years as presidential...
by Jim Hightower | Apr 1, 2015 | Current Issues, Democracy
Being a Congress critter isn’t the cushy job many people assume. After all, they must draft laws, organize hearings, write speeches, round up votes, and do all sorts of other things. Oh, wait… my mistake. Members have staff to do all that, including telling the...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 31, 2015 | Blog, Current Issues, Democracy, Financial Reform
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is supposed to "protect investors." But what happens when a company is dishing the company's cash out to politicians, political parties and political "charities"? Apparently, investors/shareholders don't get to find out...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 31, 2015 | Blog, Democracy, Populist Majority
For presidential wannabes, the money primary has already begun, as aspirants troop from one gathering of the wealthy to another. Jeb – “my own man” – Bush hasn’t announced formally yet, but is expected to do well on the Republican side, tapping his family's deep well...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 18, 2015 | Blog, Democracy
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE6df-5tPEw] Interview excerpt with Ryan Grim on The Zero Hour Merriam-Webster's first definition of "corruption" is "impairment of integrity, virtue, or moral principle." Another is "a departure from the original or from what...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 5, 2015 | Democracy
Don't think of the ceremonies that will take place this weekend on the 50th anniversary of the voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. as a commemoration of a victory won. Let's use them instead as a call to renew fight for voting rights that are being...
