Thom Hartmann: Creating a Progressive America Thom Hartmann: Creating a Progressive America
Average Americans are watching their country dissolve in front of them, and it will take grassroots mobilization on both the Left and Right to assess and address the systemic dysfu...
Oct 20, 2011 / Video / The Nation and On The Earth Productions
Why a Mortgage Cramdown Bill Is Still the Best Bet to Save the Economy Why a Mortgage Cramdown Bill Is Still the Best Bet to Save the Economy
If all underwater mortgages were written down to market value and refinanced, it would add $71 billion a year to the economy and create 1 million jobs.
Oct 20, 2011 / Alex Ulam
Replace Biden on 2012 Ticket? No, VP’s Populism is Obama’s Best Hope Replace Biden on 2012 Ticket? No, VP’s Populism is Obama’s Best Hope
The vice president actually "gets it." He likes unions and working people. He's on message and the rest of the Obama administration should recognize just how necessary th...
Oct 20, 2011 / Blog / John Nichols
Occupy Wall Street: Cutting Edge, Old-Fashioned Village Occupy Wall Street: Cutting Edge, Old-Fashioned Village
The Occupy Wall Street movement is simultaneously a cutting-edge online force to be reckoned with and an old-fashioned community.
Oct 20, 2011 / Blog / Allison Kilkenny
Is the National Security Complex Too Big To Fail? Is the National Security Complex Too Big To Fail?
Think of Iraq as the AIG of wars, only this bailout is still going on.
Oct 20, 2011 / Tom Engelhardt
Let Them Eat Bill Keller Let Them Eat Bill Keller
Funny, he doesn’t look like Marie Antoinette. But former New York Times Executive Editor Keller displays the arrogance of disoriented royal privilege.
Oct 20, 2011 / Robert Scheer
John Nichols: In Ohio, Are Right-Wingers Tearing Down the Progressive Infrastructure? John Nichols: In Ohio, Are Right-Wingers Tearing Down the Progressive Infrastructure?
As the movement to repeal Governor John Kasich's anti-union legislation gains ground, Republican out-of-state groups are flocking to Ohio to implement campaigns in support of the l...
Oct 19, 2011 / Nation in the News / The Ed Show
Murdoch’s Accountability Moment Murdoch’s Accountability Moment
Rupert Murdoch meets his stockholders Friday amidst rising scrutiny from investors—and perhaps from the Justice Department.
Oct 19, 2011 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
King Versus the Tea Party: From the Poor People’s Campaign to Occupy King Versus the Tea Party: From the Poor People’s Campaign to Occupy
Tea Party Congressman Allen West says of Occupy Wall Street: “Martin Luther King Jr. would not have backed these types of protesters." Kings history, and his ...
Oct 19, 2011 / Blog / John Nichols
OWS to Supercommittee: Accountability, Not Austerity! OWS to Supercommittee: Accountability, Not Austerity!
As the Congressional budget supercommittee deliberates, fiscal hawks are calling for “tough choices.” The 99 percent are demanding economic justice.
Oct 19, 2011 / Editorial / The Editors