by Robert Borosage | Jan 7, 2015 | Progressive Vision
The Institute for Policy Studies on Wednesday is honoring Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) for his 50 years of service in Congress. This is an edited version of a tribute to Conyers written for that event in Washington. It is difficult to sum up the works of a man whose...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 5, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision
[fve]http://youtu.be/kOdIqKsv624[/fve] The passing last week of former New York governor Mario Cuomo is prompting many people to revisit his speech at the 1984 Democratic Party convention – a speech as electric and iconic as the 2004 address that propelled a young...
by Bernie Horn | Jan 5, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Progressive Vision
To be a progressive is to seek new laws that advance economic and social justice for all. That endeavor was thoroughly frustrated by the last Congress, and the next one will be worse. On the federal level, progressives had to settle for President Obama’s executive...
by Roger Hickey | Jan 5, 2015 | Blog, Populist Majority, Progressive Vision
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has become the most visible leader of the growing populist movement that is uniting a new majority around an agenda for economic change. But with media visibility comes oversimplified media analysis. For example, a December 24 McClatchy News...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 23, 2014 | Blog, Populist Majority, Progressive Vision
The midterm elections were a wake-up call. Voters had given up on the Democratic party as irrelevant – not really on their side, so they didn't bother to show up at the polls. But there are end-of-year holiday season bright spots for progressives as we think about the...
by Robert Borosage | Dec 22, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
After the debilitating defeats of 2014, Democrats face a harsh winter, wandering in a bleak wilderness, trying to find the way out. Redemption will come only if Democrats use this time to rethink their course, and develop new ideas, a clearer sense of their own...
