by Richard Eskow | Jun 8, 2014 | Blog, Democracy
[fve]http://youtu.be/OMxwFn_YCgE[/fve] A few months back the filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin got some bad news. The PBS funding that they had counted on to complete their documentary on campaign financing was being withdrawn. This setback came not long after PBS...
by Alan Jenkins | May 16, 2014 | Blog, Democracy
Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling doubled down on bigotry this week, disparaging NBA icon Magic Johnson for his HIV-positive status, and saying that Johnson and other African-American entrepreneurs have done little to assist the Black community. Sterling’s...
by Robert Borosage | Apr 21, 2014 | Blog, Democracy
We are headed into a national reckoning. To paraphrase the unlamented Donald Rumsfeld, there are the known knowns and the known unknowns. We know that America is reaching new levels of extreme inequality. We know that from the founders on, our wisest leaders cautioned...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 8, 2014 | Democracy
The billionaire-hugging right-wingers on the Supreme Court, who began poisoning the American political process in 2010 with their Citizens United decision, dumped a truckload more Zyklon B into voting booths last week with their McCutcheon ruling. While in Citizens...
by Bill Moyers | Apr 4, 2014 | Democracy
Fortunately for any of us who believe this country should be about fair play and justice, Saru Jayaraman [co-director of Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, which has helped organize fast-food-worker protests for higher wages] and those waiters, busboys, and...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 3, 2014 | Blog, Democracy
The Supreme Court’s McCutcheon ruling will be remembered as a decisive battle in a determined and wealthy minority’s war against the popular will. It is not the first such battle, nor will it be the last. And the people will continue to lose – unless and until the...
