Stories by Joshua Holland
Joshua Holland is an AlterNet staff writer.
While we deliberate major economic transformation, there are good ideas waiting on the shelf right now the new president can green light.
Posted on Nov 29, 2008
When the Big Three's best Rep. lost a key committee spot, their share prices dropped. That's not just business as usual, it's a sign of corruption.
Posted on Nov 21, 2008
The Bush-Paulson plan isn't doing anything to address the underlying problems threatening America's economic future.
Posted on Nov 15, 2008
Outside of a few social issues, Americans are firmly in the progressive camp, but that hasn't prevented a lot of bloviating to the contrary.
Posted on Nov 10, 2008
The country is shifting; new groups of voters are expected to come to the polls, and battles are raging over key ballot initiatives.
Posted on Nov 4, 2008
Dems are riding a wave into Congress this election, and a few key victories in the South could make a huge difference for progressive causes.
Posted on Nov 3, 2008
McCain wants to be the great "re-distributor": He takes money from poor people and sends it upward.
Posted on Oct 31, 2008
Many of the promises the candidates make on the stump would have trouble passing muster with the WTO -- that's the whole point of "free trade" deals.
Posted on Oct 30, 2008
Pragmatism doesn't mean leaving your core principles at the door.
Posted on Oct 28, 2008
For a tenth of the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we could help rescue the "nuts and bolts" economy in which most Americans work and live.
Posted on Oct 24, 2008
Van Jones talks about a new vision for America in which progressives go from protest to governance.
Posted on Oct 23, 2008
Deregulation brought us hugely "leveraged" investments, and they brought us panicked markets and pain.
Posted on Oct 22, 2008
The titans of high finance are trying desperately to shift blame for the crisis onto others, but this dead cat lies squarely on their doorstep.
Posted on Oct 18, 2008
A survey of what some of the best thinkers believe we're facing in the coming months and years -- and the best ways to prevent complete disaster.
Posted on Oct 11, 2008
You don't need a crystal ball -- history is repeating itself.
Posted on Oct 7, 2008
Experts discuss the politics of the bailout's defeat in the House, the fundamentals of the plan and where we might go from here.
Posted on Oct 1, 2008
Their revolt was anything but an act of courage to protect American families.
Posted on Sep 30, 2008
It would keep families in their homes and loosen credit markets without rewarding Wall Street's wheeler-dealers for their recklessness.
Posted on Sep 28, 2008
It's 'empire spending,' not 'defense spending.'
Posted on Sep 26, 2008
Bush wants to fleece us for hundreds of billions in the financial crisis, but that's just the first layer of a more fundamental economic problem.
Posted on Sep 22, 2008
If you've been on an emotional roller coaster, you might want to disembark.
Posted on Sep 20, 2008
McCain's plan makes little sense until one grasps that it's designed to improve Corporate America's bottom line rather than Americans' health.
Posted on Sep 17, 2008
Americans are ready for deep and substantive change -- will Obama deliver what they seek?
Posted on Sep 13, 2008
A poll of 16,000 people in 17 countries reveals the damage done to the credibility of the United States by the Bush administration.
Posted on Sep 11, 2008
Even though Obama says he'll cut taxes for 95 percent of Americans, Gallup records 53 percent thinking he'll raise them.
Posted on Aug 26, 2008
But his overall record is a mixed-bag for progressives.
Posted on Aug 23, 2008
Big business has prepared a war chest of at least $150 million to stop progressive economic legislation that would seriously tax the rich.
Posted on Aug 8, 2008
Officially, "stagflation" is a thing of the past, but a deeper look reveals a different, very painful reality for most Americans.
Posted on Jul 31, 2008
Cusack's anti-war polemic,
War, Inc., continues to defy expectations, despite the traditional media's dismissive reception.
Posted on Jul 12, 2008
Progressive immigration reformers need to do a better job framing their proposals.
Posted on Jul 7, 2008
Redefining the word "immigrant" is an attempt to differentiate between those they hate and their own grandparents.
Posted on Jun 2, 2008
The idea that the government isn't trying to enforce its immigration laws is hogwash -- the problem is that it's all it's doing.
Posted on May 22, 2008
Forced drugging. Abuse. Death. That's what workplace-based immigration enforcement without deeper reform looks like.
Posted on May 21, 2008
An interview with Cusack about his latest film,
War Inc., which takes the outsourcing of military operations to the absurd.
Posted on May 19, 2008
Tough-minded immigration policies keep backfiring, and the debate over them obscures the question of what really works and what doesn't.
Posted on May 13, 2008
A perfect example of short-sighted public policy.
Posted on May 6, 2008
We must focus on the unregulated and substandard jobs that migrant workers fill, rather than on the individuals who work them.
Posted on May 1, 2008
What separates Carter from the neocons is his genuine desire to negotiate a Middle East peace settlement, and that means talking to everyone.
Posted on Apr 21, 2008
Using a mixture of cultural ignorance, incompetence and a touch of cronyism, the U.S has turned a patriotic nation against itself.
Posted on Apr 15, 2008
The two Dems lie every time they discuss Iraq on the campaign trail, but the media refuse to call them on it.
Posted on Apr 5, 2008
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