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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 Must Dare To Be Revolutionary

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

We Don't Have to Wait for Obama to Make Sure Everyone Has Better Health Care

Taking steps to realistic health care reform begins at the state level.
Posted on Jun 12, 2009

Obama's Broken Promises

President Obama has reneged on many of his campaign promises. Why are we letting him get away with it?
Posted on Jun 8, 2009

Obama for Single-Payer Before He Was Against It.

How Political Elites Have Made Single Payer "Politically Impossible"
Posted on May 11, 2009

Capitalist Pigs: What the Wall Street Meltdown and Swine Flu Have in Common

Pigs are supposed to be the smartest domestic animal. But they clearly have trouble when charged with managing capitalism.
Posted on May 9, 2009

Is Arlen Specter the Democrats' Magic Bullet?

It all depends on how Democrats use him.
Posted on May 1, 2009

Newsflash: Populism Is Popular

Populism is becoming the dominant paradigm, and that has the Establishment frightened.
Posted on Apr 25, 2009

Is There Any Wonder Some People Snap Like in Binghamton and at Columbine?

Our entire way of life -- from our exploitative economy to our foreign policy -- is violent.
Posted on Apr 20, 2009

Get Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams!

Take a lesson from corporate America's newest surefire money-making strategy: graft.
Posted on Apr 11, 2009

This Is Your Government on Drugs

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

Competition in Health Care: Republicans Were For It, Before They Were Against It

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

It's the End of the World As We Know It

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

Is Obama's Car Czar Plotting to Crush the Auto Unions?

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 Choice to Sign the Stimulus Bill in Denver Reflects the Steep, Jagged Road Ahead

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

We Are a Nation of Junkies Hooked on Media-Fabricated Outrage

As the Phelps 'scandal' proves yet again, our narcotic of choice -- creating controversy where none exists -- packs a punch.
Posted on Feb 16, 2009

America Is Moving Toward Czarism and Away from Democracy

Every patriot should be concerned about the intensifying efforts to supplant democracy with something far more authoritarian: "American czarism."
Posted on Jan 24, 2009

Can Obama Close the Gulf Between Hope and Change?

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

Four Reasons to Oppose the Bush-Obama Request for the Rest of the $700 Billion Bailout

For starters: The Treasury says it doesn't need the money.
Posted on Jan 14, 2009

Leaving Las Vegas: Are Americans Ready to Put Cataclysmic Consumption and Hedonism Behind Them?

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

Did America Get Punk'd on the Bailout?

The answer is yes ... now here's what to do about it.
Posted on Dec 18, 2008

A Message for America's Ruling Class: We Told You So

Our bipartisan political Establishment and sycophantic Punditburo have been wrong on the economy over and over again.
Posted on Dec 13, 2008

What's with Obama's Deputy Telling Progressives to Pipe Down?

Obama aide Steve Hildebrand explicitly attacks "the left wing of the Democratic Party" with Fox News-style talking points.
Posted on Dec 9, 2008

Media Fixate on the Obama Family Dog, Ignore Local Elections

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

Why Are We Shocked By Obama's Centrism?

Obama's 'grass-roots' movement revolves around him, not progressive issues.
Posted on Nov 28, 2008

Watch out for Obama's Team Selling Conservative Policies as Progressive Politics

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

Health Care Game-Changer Underway?

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

Why Obama Shouldn't Listen to the Media Noise Machine

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 Playing Chicken With Detroit in Last-Gasp Effort to Demoralize the Dems

Bush has his thumb on the Democratic Party's most divisive issue.
Posted on Nov 14, 2008

What Should Democrats Do Now?

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

FDR vs. Reagan

The final stretch of the Presidential race has become an ideological proxy war between Ronald Reagan and Franklin Roosevelt.
Posted on Oct 31, 2008

Is John McCain Stupid, or Does He Think We Are?

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

Senate Race Upset-orama: Political Earthquake Hits Oregon

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

Henry Paulson: Good Businessman or Very Bad Communist?

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

The Bailout: How Capitalism Killed Democracy

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 Fiscally Insane Bailout Bill Might Not Pass -- Here Are 5 Reasons It Shouldn't

The scheme would force taxpayers to absorb the pain, while Wall Street execs reap the gain.
Posted on Sep 29, 2008

Wall Street Bailout Takes Us Back to the U.S.S.R

Lawmakers are pushing kleptocratic socialism -- a system where the objective is theft.
Posted on Sep 26, 2008

What Obama Is Doing Wrong

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

Country First? Not for Republicans

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

In Fight Over Law Securing Workers' Right to Organize, Corporations Bill Themselves as Underdogs

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

The Democratic Convention Was Anything But Conventional

This year's Democratic convention may have helped forge a new progressive movement.
Posted on Aug 29, 2008

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