by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 4, 2015 | Economy
As former Department of Labor Secretary Robert Reich says in the above video, there's a lot to like about California, including the fact that it is electorally a solidly blue state with many good progressive elected officials. But what's bad about California is that...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 4, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Progressive Vision
Has the American left lost sight of the big picture? While liberals have been fighting line-item battles against the Republican right, government itself has been changing – and slowly disappearing. Are we winning some battles (not so many, come to think of it) but...
by Leo Gerard | Feb 3, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy
The people of Greece rebelled last week against the perverse notion that they should continue to endure biting austerity in a vain attempt to cure a condition that they are not solely responsible for creating. Sounds familiar, right? It’s like American workers forced...
by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 3, 2015 | Blog, Economy
Sometimes facts can fly. All around the world. Over the last year or so, no one has been flying facts more effectively than the folks at Oxfam, the activist global charity. A year ago, an Oxfam report revealed that the world’s 85 richest billionaires had as much...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 3, 2015 | Blog, Economy
Washington's upcoming budget battle could become the next front in the war against austerity. That's the bank-friendly economic ideology whose forces now span the globe: Europe has the Germans, and we have the Republicans. But who in this country will take the role of...
by Michael Winship | Feb 2, 2015 | Blog, Economy
My friend Craig Zobel just premiered his new movie at the Sundance Film Festival. Z for Zachariah is based on a young adult novel from the seventies about a post-apocalyptic world and a woman who lives on a farm in a remote valley. A geographic anomaly, the valley has...
