Stories by David Sirota
David Sirota is a nationally syndicated weekly newspaper columnist for Creators Syndicate. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Hostile Takeover: How Big Money and Corruption Conquered Our Government and How We Take It Back (Crown 2006). He is also a senior fellow at the Campaign for America's Future and a board member of the Progressive States Network. His second book, The Uprising, is due in the Spring of 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
The Democrats' timidity on economic justice may end up guaranteeing no real 'change' at all.
Posted on Feb 8, 2008
As the candidates look to the West, a series of myths have developed about Western politics.
Posted on Feb 1, 2008
Leading figures of both parties seem eager to help limit the debate over "stimulus" and make the final package a corporate goodie bag.
Posted on Jan 25, 2008
There is a simple fix for our ailing healthcare system, and it has the right-wing in a panic.
Posted on Jan 18, 2008
If you don't live in a "battleground" like Florida or Ohio whose statewide vote is perpetually up for grabs, you are ignored.
Posted on Dec 28, 2007
The 'paranoid style' in American politics is grounded in a profound disconnect between ordinary Americans and the political class.
Posted on Dec 21, 2007
Brutes like billionaire equity guru Henry Kravis haven't amassed such treasure by playing nice.
Posted on Dec 14, 2007
Investor deals protect foreign capital at the price of sovereignty.
Posted on Dec 5, 2007
The issue of illegal immigration is a con job to draw attention away from the corporate profiteers who are buying influence in Washington.
Posted on Nov 24, 2007
They don't call it the "silly season" for nothing: Hillary will vote for more of the same failed trade model she opposes; Obama attacks Clinton for supporting the same deal he does.
Posted on Nov 15, 2007
Beltway Democrats are too often a part of the problem.
Posted on Oct 3, 2007
Mike Huckabee has a populist economic message that may be shunned by the Money Party in Washington, but likely has an appeal among rank-and-file working-class Republican voters.
Posted on Aug 14, 2007
Democrats who were sent to Congress in the tide-turning election of 2006 are selling out the economic populism that got them elected in the first place.
Posted on Jul 18, 2007
In the lead up to and wake of Bill Moyers' much-anticipated mega-dunk on the Washington press corps this week, we are seeing the ugliest side of Beltway culture -- sophistry and damage control.
Posted on Apr 27, 2007
From calling opposition to the Iraq war a 'fringe' position, to endorsing sham environmentalism, to defending the low taxation of billionaires,
The New York Times and the political establishment aren't in sync with the majority of Americans.
Posted on Mar 5, 2007
How can we expect the media and politicians to be a watchdog if its leading analysts and news framers face no public sanctions when they disrespect the truth or give credence to fringe ideologies?
Posted on Jan 20, 2007
It will be interesting to watch D.C.'s chickenhawk pundit class lecture a Marine veteran and Vietnam war hero about why we should not prevent a military escalation that troops on the ground say they don't want.
Posted on Jan 4, 2007
A list of the Democrats who are going to lead the fight for health care, fair trade and labor issues in the New Congress and the Democrats who will fight them.
Posted on Dec 4, 2006
D.C.'s "culture of corruption" has very little to do with lobbyist gifts and everything to do with the Big Money bribery that is today's campaign finance system.
Posted on Nov 23, 2006
Voters in Connecticut in the end went for Joe Lieberman. But Ned Lamont's insurgent anti-war campaign was a step forward for progressive forces building for the future.
Posted on Nov 13, 2006
The Dems have gotten used to kicking their party base in the face, and the situation is ready to explode. No matter what happens Tuesday, progressives are sure to shake things up in 2007.
Posted on Nov 6, 2006
Republicans are brazenly calling for indefinite deployments of huge troop forces in Iraq -- if only the press would come out and report it that way.
Posted on Aug 28, 2006
Ned Lamont's crushing defeat of Joe Lieberman in the Connecticut Senate primary shows that voters are hungry for change -- but Lieberman still fights for politics as usual.
Posted on Aug 9, 2006
Republicans running for re-election believe the American public will swallow another batch of lies and distortions about 9/11 -- but this time, Democrats are pushing back.
Posted on Jul 28, 2006
In an excerpt from his book 'Hostile Takeover,' Sirota reveals how the same politicians who preach about the 'culture of life' are too addicted to health industry cash to care about people who can't afford to see a doctor.
Posted on May 22, 2006
The Democrats' policy of doing nothing as the Republican Party keeps tripping over itself is a recipe for continued political failure and irrelevance.
Posted on Oct 19, 2005
Washington is nothing more than a bordello -- where politicians are the prostitutes, lobbyists are the customers, and the door spins faster as the two switch places.
Posted on Oct 14, 2005
The Katrina catastrophe proves that conservatives' tax-cut zealotry has left America vulnerable to disaster.
Posted on Oct 4, 2005
The revelation of Deep Throat is a reminder of the moribund state of investigative journalism; ironically, it's the career path of Watergate hero Bob Woodward that provides the parallel.
Posted on Jun 2, 2005
In considering Rob Portman's nomination to the position of trade representative, the Senate will have a unique opportunity to seriously analyze where America's trade policy has gone wrong.
Posted on Mar 23, 2005
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