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.
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
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
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
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