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  • Published How Do We Seize The Obama Moment? (Blog entry)
    August 17, 2008 - 6:11pm

    progressive-moment-button2.gifIt's more than ten weeks before voters choose their next president, but progressives should start thinking now about strategy for a Barack Obama presidency. How do we make sure our priorities are Obama's priorities, and how do we get those priorities addressed in a political landscape where resistance to change will still be intense? For the next two weeks, we want you to join us in a dialogue on these questions that we hope will help us claim a progressive mandate for change after the election. The dialogue starts with this article, excerpted from the September 1 cover story in The Nation. Add your comments, and watch for other articles from our senior fellows and other progressive leaders.

  • Published The Great Corporate Tax Heist (Blog entry)
    August 12, 2008 - 3:01pm

    Remember the old Steve Martin routine on how to make a million dollars and not pay taxes: "First, make a million dollars... Second, don't pay taxes." Turns out Martin's joke is standard operating procedure for corporations in the United States — only, in comparison, Martin was a piker.

  • Published The Audacity of Contempt (Blog entry)
    August 5, 2008 - 6:31pm

    Take gas prices, the most pressing issue on the minds of Americans. Offer a blatant ploy that in fact won't help — but will profit Big Oil. Pocket over a million dollars in contributions from oil executives and use the money to put up an ad promising to take on Big Oil. Sen. John McCain seems intent on proving that it is possible to scorn Americans into voting for him.

  • Published The Roots of Obstruction (Blog entry)
    July 30, 2008 - 10:11am
    Like Rodney Dangerfield, this Congress doesn't get much respect. Americans rate it slightly above sludge, but below George Bush, the least admired president in the history of polling. But take another look. The reputation of the Congress would be very different had the Republican minority and George Bush not orchestrated a systematic campaign of obstruction to bottle up any progress.
  • Published Your Health Care May Decide The 2008 Election (Blog entry)
    July 23, 2008 - 11:02am

    Americans will begin to tune into the election again around the conventions. And in the fall, they'll start to take a closer look at who the candidates are and what they believe. Iraq will be big no doubt; the economy bigger. But health care may just be the pothole that cracks up Sen. John McCain's Straight Talk Express.

  • Published Wall Street Socialism (Blog entry)
    July 16, 2008 - 10:38am

    This weekend, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, former head of the Goldman Sachs investment house, provided us with a perfect demonstration of Wall Street socialism. Everything about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has been nationalized—except the profits and the pay scales of their executives.

  • Published They Rob You With a Fountain Pen (Blog entry)
    July 11, 2008 - 11:39am

    Look out folks, you’re about to get fleeced. We’re getting sent the bill for the bankers’ bacchanalia. They had the party, made off with the dough, and we’re going to end up paying the price.

  • Published McCain Pledges Allegiance to NAFTA (Blog entry)
    July 1, 2008 - 4:16pm

    Arizona Sen. John McCain continues his rousing campaign tour of the swing states of NAFTA this week. He will celebrate July 3 in Mexico City after a jaunt through Colombia to pledge support for the pending free trade accord with that center of cocaine trade. He surely will increase his margin over Illinois Sen. Barack Obama among business elites in Mexico and Canada.

  • Published Time for a Grand Inquest into Bush's High Crimes (Blog entry)
    June 25, 2008 - 9:09am

    Ruling impeachment off the table hasn't hurt congressional Democrats politically. But the constitutional implications are far more disturbing. According to the leading case on presidential powers, if Bush's extreme assertions of power are not challenged by the Congress, they end up not simply creating new law, they could end up rewriting the Constitution itself.

  • Published A New U.S. Strategy in the Global Economy? (Blog entry)
    June 18, 2008 - 1:43am

    America's banker isn't happy. China's leaders blame Washington's "warped conception" of market deregulation for the financial crisis that is rattling the world economy. Perfect. The Bush administration is so lame, it is getting lectures from the communist governors of China on how best to regulate the market.

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