My political journey since the election of Barack Obama
I have always identified as a Democrat. When I heard Barack Obama speak at the Democratic convention in 2004, I blurted out to the person I was with that he would be our first African-Amercan...
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Democratic Party to take moral stand in support of gay marriage
In unanimous decision on July 29, the drafting committee for the Democratic National Convention embraced marriage equality as part of the platform for the 2012 Convention. The next step will be for the...
View ArticleLawrence O’Donnell: Why liberals need to support conservative Democrats
Lawrence O’Donnell is an American political analyst, journalist, actor, producer, writer, and host of The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, a weeknight MSNBC opinion and news program. Before his work...
View ArticleA Democratic platform progressives can believe in
The Democratic Party yesterday approved a progressive party platform that stands up for Medicare, Social Security, the right to organize, and marriage equality, The contrast with the reactionary...
View ArticleStudy debunks Romney myth of makers and takers
Political scientists Suzanne Mettler and John Sides provide the numbers that debunk the Romney view that 53% of the population are hardworking, independent, and proudly individualistic “makers,” while...
View ArticleProgress: Women, minorities make up majorities in newly elected government
“The Democratic Caucus will bring to the 113th Congress the first Caucus where the majority is women and minorities. Our new Caucus will celebrate the great diversity and strength of our nation,” Nancy...
View ArticleLame duck: Obama’s not-so-grand bargain
According to a leaked memo provided by Bob Woodward on last Sunday’s Meet the Press with David Gregory, Obama’s first try at a “Grand Bargain” was abysmal. You can read the Grand Bargain memo in its...
View Article“State-wrecked: the corruption of capitalism in America”
That’s the title of David A. Stockman’s March 31 opinion piece in the New York Times. Stockman is a Republican and former budget director for the Reagan administration (1981 to 1985). His most accurate...
View ArticleJeffrey Sachs: “We have a corrupt politics to the core”
In a recent talk at the Philadelphia Federal Reserve at a conference titled “Fixing the Banking system for Good,” Jeffrey Sachs, economist, Columbia University Professor, and respected D.C. insider had...
View ArticleFrank Rich and Joe Stiglitz on income inequality
On a recent segment of the Rachel Maddow Show, Rachel interviewed two guests at one time, something she rarely does. The guests, Frank Rich and Joseph Stiglitz, both point the finger at corporate...
View ArticleSenator Sanders holds town halls on the Danish “solidarity” system
“I won’t dispute for one second the problems of a system that demands immense amount of fund-raisers by its legislators,” Jim Himes—a Democrat from Connecticut who supported the bankers’ recent bills...
View ArticleRush Holt, New Jersey progressive running for Senate, backs single payer
Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ), considered by many to be one of the smartest members of Congress, is running for New Jersey’s open senate seat in a primary against Wall Street and hedge fund backed Democrat...
View ArticleDear Senator Warren, we need you to be president
The title of Noam Scheiber’s November cover story in the New Republic is: “Hillary’s Nightmare: A Democratic Party That Realizes Its Soul Lies with Elizabeth Warren.” The Democratic Party lost its soul...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren confronts Wall Street Democrats
Recently, Elizabeth Warren delivered a speech from the floor of the Senate. Her purpose was to condemn Obama’s “Grand Bargain” proposal to use a chained consumer price index (CPI) to cut cost of living...
View ArticleCutting cable and MSNBC along with it
I’m not alone in being burned out on MSNBC. The complaints vary from “there’s too much opinion and not enough news,” to “I’m tired of the shrill, manic delivery of MSNBC hosts like Rachel Maddow,...
View ArticleDemocrats need to be more welcoming to candidates: 2014 election edition
Last Tuesday, when my husband showed up in our state capital to file his candidacy for U.S. Congress–in a district where no other Democrat is willing to try–he was received with indifference at the...
View ArticleGlobal derivatives markets 20 percent larger than before the crash
What’s a derivative? The word “derivative” may ring a bell because Wall Street speculation in “innovative financial instruments” such as derivatives, helped tank the economy 2008. Mayra Rodriques...
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Dangerous beliefs: US moral superiority and our right to world hegemony
[by Madonna Gauding] In the windowless rooms of American corporate media, the assumption of U.S. hegemony is echoed on the alphabet TV channels and in the main U.S. government propaganda source—the New...
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RIP Democratic Party: The best of the 2014 election post-mortems
The average American lost big in the midterm election yesterday when their last, best, if imperfect, hope, the Democratic party, was, in legislative terms at least, buried. There’s lots of reasons why...
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Midterms: Democratic Party didn’t give people a reason to vote
It’s absolutely true that Mitch McConnell and the Republicans obstructed every Democratic initiative. On the other hand, Democrats didn’t give people a reason to go to the polls. Why should Democrats...
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