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.
For all the positive steps Obama's America seems poised to take, the aspirations still seem too confined by old conceptions of how things must work.
Posted on Jun 22, 2009
Taking steps to realistic health care reform begins at the state level.
Posted on Jun 12, 2009
President Obama has reneged on many of his campaign promises. Why are we letting him get away with it?
Posted on Jun 8, 2009
How Political Elites Have Made Single Payer "Politically Impossible"
Posted on May 11, 2009
Pigs are supposed to be the smartest domestic animal. But they clearly have trouble when charged with managing capitalism.
Posted on May 9, 2009
It all depends on how Democrats use him.
Posted on May 1, 2009
Populism is becoming the dominant paradigm, and that has the Establishment frightened.
Posted on Apr 25, 2009
Our entire way of life -- from our exploitative economy to our foreign policy -- is violent.
Posted on Apr 20, 2009
Take a lesson from corporate America's newest surefire money-making strategy: graft.
Posted on Apr 11, 2009
Some politicians are starting to acknowledge the tragic absurdity of the war on drugs. But we have a long way to go.
Posted on Apr 4, 2009
For the GOP to acknowledge the contradiction in their position would undermine the insurance industry that's filling their campaign coffers.
Posted on Mar 16, 2009
If we don't quickly wake up and turn things around, we will be left to mutter Col. Kurtz's despondent whisper: "The horror ... the horror."
Posted on Mar 9, 2009
Obama put corporate raider Steve Rattner in charge of overseeing the auto industry and his "plan" seems to be to crush the autoworkers.
Posted on Mar 1, 2009
Obama's penchant for symbolism took him to a locale that indicates how rough our path will be as we scale our mammoth economic problems.
Posted on Feb 21, 2009
As the Phelps 'scandal' proves yet again, our narcotic of choice -- creating controversy where none exists -- packs a punch.
Posted on Feb 16, 2009
Every patriot should be concerned about the intensifying efforts to supplant democracy with something far more authoritarian: "American czarism."
Posted on Jan 24, 2009
Hope is winning smiles and poignant one-liners. Change is all the grinding work that comes with challenging power and enacting transformative laws.
Posted on Jan 23, 2009
For starters: The Treasury says it doesn't need the money.
Posted on Jan 14, 2009
Will we finally accept the public policy and lifestyle changes that the real world now requires? Or will "Viva Las Vegas" always be America's motto?
Posted on Dec 27, 2008
The answer is yes ... now here's what to do about it.
Posted on Dec 18, 2008
Our bipartisan political Establishment and sycophantic Punditburo have been wrong on the economy over and over again.
Posted on Dec 13, 2008
Obama aide Steve Hildebrand explicitly attacks "the left wing of the Democratic Party" with Fox News-style talking points.
Posted on Dec 9, 2008
In our nation, presidential pooches are front-page stories. Local democracy is, at best, filler surrounding classified ads and comic strips.
Posted on Dec 6, 2008
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
1
