"Words that make actions speak louder."
I got my first job while I was in high school through a small community organization run by Willie J. Hardy who operated out of what legendary Washington Post writer William Raspberry described as a “tiny, hopelessly cluttered quonset hut.”
We interview Rick Perlstein, a former writer for the Campaign for America’s Future who now writes for The Nation, about his detailed and deeply troubling two-part examination of President Obama’s nominee to be Commerce secretary. Penny Pritzker.
Among African-American voters there are a significant segment that has complained for years that their votes are taken for granted by the Democratic party. It is the bloc whose unity around Barack Obama propelled him into the White House.
Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter Hedrick Smith is definitely on a mission these days, barnstorming the country not only to promote his latest book, “Who Stole the American Dream?,” but to help us change the focus of the Washington political debate from debt and deficits to restoring the economic prosperity of working-class Americans. […]
Adele Stan, the Washington editor of AlterNet, says that as crazy and extreme as some of what is said and done at the Conservative Political Action Conference seems to be, progressives should still be concerned about the ability of conservatives to win the political narrative. She explains why in my interview with her after her […]
We were hoping that the Senate Banking Committee would give Mary Jo White, President Obama’s choice to be chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, a tough grilling at today’s confirmation hearing. What we got most often instead looked more like a friendly backyard grill party. She is “a diehard Yankees fan” who “likes to crack […]
The group Fix the Debt has been at it again, releasing another proposal designed to divert the nation’s attention to the so-called “debt crisis,” while the more pressing jobs crisis and poor-and-middle-class-squeeze crisis goes unaddressed. Watch here as opponents to Fix The Debt’s baloney counter with a different message.
The Campaign for America’s Future ‘s Roger Hickey today joins a long list of leaders who are calling on President Obama to name Heidi Hartmann, the founder and president of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, to be the next Secretary of Labor. “The next Secretary of Labor must be a visionary leader dedicated to […]
The fight for filibuster reform does not stop with what MSNBC talk show host Ed Schultz on Thursday dubbed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s “fail-ibuster.” Communications Workers of America President Larry Cohen told Schultz that “we have to continue that fight.” Cohen said there are real consequences to the decision by Reid to agree to […]
One of the most maddening features of the current fiscal cliff/fiscal swindle debate is that the chattering class rarely acknowledges the people who have already fallen off the cliff: 5 million Americans who have been unemployed for more than 27 weeks. The roughly 7 million people who aren’t even counted as unemployed because even though […]