"Words that make actions speak louder."
A Sunday conference and a Monday march in Washington is designed to further a “pro-equality populism,” with an increase in the minimum wage and closing corporate tax loopholes as immediate demands.
The latest report that middle-income households are falling behind the counterparts in some other developed countries should embolden Democratic candidates to offer bolder, progressive populist prescriptions.
There is a growing populist resistance to the conservative extremist agenda, and Saturday’s Moral March on Raleigh was designed to launch the next phase of a nationwide push-back against tea-party Republicans.
Watch this segment of “The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann” in which Robert Borosage and Richard Eskow discuss progressive politics in the wake of the retirement of long-time California Rep. Henry Waxman.
It’s an appropriate day to make a broader, more audacious statement about what every American should expect from our economy, and thus what our government should do to uphold those basis expectations.
The Rev. William Barber II explains why he is calling people around the country to join a Feb. 8 “moral march” on Raleigh, N.C.: “In order to change America, you have to change the South.”
Terry McAuliffe’s win in Virginia, even though it was a decisive defeat of a tea party hero, doesn’t offer a template for rebuilding the electoral framework for progressive reform. That’s the real challenge of 2014 and beyond.
This lifelong organizer and supporter of progressive causes will get a “thank you” for work spanning five decades at the Campaign for America’s Future 2013 Awards Gala.
A Democracy Corps report challenges progressives to present a narrative and a set of values that speak broadly to the economic anxieties that most Americans share.
President Obama gave a speech that hit many of the right themes but failed to light a fire because its chemistry was not up to the demands of the moment. But, at the end, it is not the quality of the president’s rhetoric that matters.