Stories by David Sirota
David Sirota is a best-selling author whose newest book, "The Uprising," was just released this month. He is a fellow at the Campaign for America's Future and a board member of the Progressive States Network -- both nonpartisan organizations. His blog is at www.credoaction.com/sirota.
Obama's 'grass-roots' movement revolves around him, not progressive issues.
Posted on Nov 28, 2008
Obama's early list of names for his staff doesn't bode well for all the progressive policy promises Obama made during the campaign.
Posted on Nov 26, 2008
America is a decidedly center-left nation, especially on the issue of health care. Obama now has a budget imperative to reform it immediately.
Posted on Nov 25, 2008
The media are telling Obama to ditch the agenda he won on and appease electorally humiliated Republicans. This is the last thing he should do.
Posted on Nov 21, 2008
Bush has his thumb on the Democratic Party's most divisive issue.
Posted on Nov 14, 2008
Americans envision enormous progress in the months ahead, and Democrats will have no one to blame for failure but themselves.
Posted on Nov 7, 2008
The final stretch of the Presidential race has become an ideological proxy war between Ronald Reagan and Franklin Roosevelt.
Posted on Oct 31, 2008
That's the question, as he slams Obama for his plan to lower taxes on the middle class and raise them on the super-rich.
Posted on Oct 24, 2008
The ritzy elitist GOP senator from Oregon is the latest to find himself behind in the polls to a populist Democratic challenger.
Posted on Oct 20, 2008
Is Paulson looking to socialize risk and privatize gain? The answer could be the difference between economic disaster and recovery.
Posted on Oct 10, 2008
We now face market forces uninhibited by democratic governance. The bailout is an aggressive attempt to trade democracy for autocracy.
Posted on Oct 4, 2008
The scheme would force taxpayers to absorb the pain, while Wall Street execs reap the gain.
Posted on Sep 29, 2008
Lawmakers are pushing kleptocratic socialism -- a system where the objective is theft.
Posted on Sep 26, 2008
Obama is eschewing the populism that could undermine the royalist Right and fix the economy. And the GOP is filling the resulting void.
Posted on Sep 19, 2008
As the RNC revealed, jingoism, partisanship, and Bible-thumping social conservatism seem to have priority over 'country' in the conservative mindset.
Posted on Sep 12, 2008
Corporate honchos and bought-off lawmakers are trying to kill a proposal that makes it easier to join a union.
Posted on Sep 5, 2008
This year's Democratic convention may have helped forge a new progressive movement.
Posted on Aug 29, 2008
Yet the media fixate on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, neglecting local elections and issue-based organizing.
Posted on Aug 22, 2008
Bayh doesn't have a single significant accomplishment to his name -- a miraculous achievement, even by Washington's do-nothing standards.
Posted on Aug 15, 2008
From energy policy to health care reform, the West is where America's political future will be forged.
Posted on Aug 8, 2008
Many filmic treatments of Washington present a more hard-edged political reality than most of today's so-called journalism.
Posted on Aug 1, 2008
When labor rights are protected, wages go up. It's time to make union-membership a civil right.
Posted on Jul 24, 2008
If Obama counters the GOP's race-baiting by promoting working-class interests and a fairer trade agenda, he will win the White House.
Posted on Jul 24, 2008
Washington's pundits and politicians have waged an ongoing propaganda campaign to pass off crazy, fringe politics as reasonable and mainstream.
Posted on Jul 18, 2008
Across America, local culture has been supplanted by fast food and sub-par Will Smith movies. No wonder people don't care about hometown issues.
Posted on Jul 11, 2008
Three books tackle issues rarely explored by the media: McCain's flip-flopping, America's political divide and the real story behind globalization.
Posted on Jun 27, 2008
If the anti-war movement can't find a way to hold Dem politicians accountable, then don't expect anything more than the status quo.
Posted on Jun 5, 2008
Democrats face an anti-war uprising -- one that is beginning to act like a mature movement in putting its agenda before party.
Posted on May 30, 2008
Company shareholders should use their economic leverage to force corporations to adopt environmentally friendly practices.
Posted on May 23, 2008
When will U.S. politicians recognize that NAFTA is bad for everyone?
Posted on May 16, 2008
The pervasive racism that taints our political discourse will persist until we recognize and reject it.
Posted on May 9, 2008
Washington has been debilitated by a horrible disease -- one that inhibits emotions like compassion and integrity.
Posted on May 2, 2008
The media elite pretend there are not two Americas but only one: theirs.
Posted on Apr 24, 2008
The government's policy toward unions is marked by the same political cowardice and worker repression that brought on the Ludlow Massacre.
Posted on Apr 18, 2008
"I'll admit it: I used to admire John McCain."
Posted on Apr 4, 2008
Once again, the Fed is using a crisis to enrich corporate interests.
Posted on Mar 21, 2008
Conservatives are ignoring history's teachings and resurrecting Nixon's failed strategy of going after working people.
Posted on Mar 14, 2008
This epoch of globalization has become an era of media-driven insouciance.
Posted on Mar 7, 2008
Shrewdly, Barack Obama is promising to transform trade policies so that they do not encourage outsourcing.
Posted on Feb 22, 2008
The media and political establishments keep floating the idea of Michael Bloomberg's candidacy, showing just how much change frightens the status quo.
Posted on Feb 16, 2008
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