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Jamie Court: Lessons in Populism from California
November 10, 2010"Democrats are more concerned with raising money than raising hell," says Jamie Court, author of The Progressive's Guide to Raising Hell. Meanwhile, he argues, ballot measures in California were victories for populism, for campaigns against big oil and big corporate money (and self-financed billionaire candidates). With Republicans back in control of the house, Court says, Democrats are going to have to learn something from California.Jamie Court, Reese Erlich, and Crime and Punishment
November 9, 2010"Democrats are more concerned with raising money than raising hell," says Jamie Court, author of The Progressive's Guide to Raising Hell. Meanwhile, he argues, ballot measures in California were victories for populism, for campaigns against big oil and big corporate money (and self-financed billionaire candidates). With Republicans back in control of the house, Court says, Democrats are going to have to learn something from California.Lizz Winstead: The Candidate Said What?
October 6, 2010Election 2010: it just keeps getting weirder. Now that the primaries are mostly over, a motley crew of Tea Partiers and abstinenceaholics are taking aim at Congress, and some of what they have to say is hilarious--or would be, if these weren't the nominees of one of the two major parties in the U.S., and the other party hadn't managed to alienate a good chunk of its base.Lizz Winstead, and Ben Jealous at One Nation
October 5, 2010Election 2010: it just keeps getting weirder. Now that the primaries are mostly over, a motley crew of Tea Partiers and abstinenceaholics are taking aim at Congress, and some of what they have to say is hilarious--or would be, if these weren't the nominees of one of the two major parties in the U.S., and the other party hadn't managed to alienate a good chunk of its base.Cary Harrison, Big Oil's Destruction, and Palin Meets Thatcher
June 16, 2010Our politics are all about emotion over intellect, says radio host Cary Harrison. From billionaires winning Republican primaries by pretending to be fighting for the common man to Chevron distributing fans at gay pride events, it certainly seems like something is missing. Common sense? Or is it just the money is stacked to one side? And on a completely different note, just what happened with Gen. Petraeus at that Senate Armed Services Committee hearing?Cary Harrison: Politics, PR and Petraeus
June 15, 2010Our politics are all about emotion over intellect, says radio host Cary Harrison. From billionaires winning Republican primaries by pretending to be fighting for the common man to Chevron distributing fans at gay pride events, it certainly seems like something is missing. Common sense? Or is it just the money is stacked to one side? And on a completely different note, just what happened with Gen. Petraeus at that Senate Armed Services Committee hearing?Katrina vanden Heuvel & Melissa Harris-Lacewell: The Year of the Woman?
June 15, 2010The victories of Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman in California, Sharron Angle in Nevada, and Nikki Haley in South Carolina in last week's primaries are being hailed as a victory for women. Yet do conservative, anti-government women's candidacies spell gains for women nationwide? Or will the cuts they threaten to make to government programs hurt more women than their candidacies help?Year of the Woman, Jeremy Scahill, and the World Cup
June 14, 2010The victories of Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman in California, Sharron Angle in Nevada, and Nikki Haley in South Carolina in last week's primaries are being hailed as a victory for women. Yet do conservative, anti-government women's candidacies spell gains for women nationwide? Or will the cuts they threaten to make to government programs hurt more women than their candidacies help?Bernie Sanders, Drones and War, and FauxFeminists
June 10, 2010"We have to deal with the deficit in a progressive way," says Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. Instead of cutting services in the name of some myth of austerity, Sanders suggests cutting tax loopholes and subsidies to oil companies in a new bill he just put forth in the Senate. The money we take in making oil companies pay their fair share could pay for extending unemployment benefits and health care.The F Word: The Pain Of FauxFeminist Populism
June 10, 2010"I feel your pain" -- how many times are we going to hear that between now and the midterm elections? Republicans and Democrats all know that the economy weighs first on people's minds, and they all pay lip service at least to the idea of doing something for Main Street. What's ahead -- months of millionaires making pledges?
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