Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. March 28, 2008. America can't shop its way to greatness, and this one-time, government-funded shopping spree won't lead us to a sound economy.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. January 4, 2008. The presidency may come down to how well populist messages hold up against Republican "class warfare" rhetoric.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. September 25, 2007. Naomi Klein goes head to head with Alan Greenspan on the Iraq war, Bush's tax cuts, economic populism, crony capitalism and more.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. August 26, 2007. In a dramatic speech, John Edwards fired a major broadside against corporate America and, more significantly, "corporate Democrats," -- the likes of which hasn't been heard from a viable candidate with national appeal in decades.
Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. August 22, 2007. How "reputable" financial firms are using an arsenal of tricks to extract high payments from homeowners, drain their equity and steal their homes.
David Sirota, Working Assets. August 14, 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.
Matt Miller, The Financial Times. August 8, 2007. Over three decades, America's conservative movement has so deftly shifted the boundaries of debate to the right that even modest adjustments to the market system can be cast as the second coming of Marx without anyone blushing.
Mark Weisbrot, McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. March 6, 2007. As President Bush heads south for a seven-day trip to counter the populist political tide in Latin America, he'll discover that Washington's influence has collapsed and is not likely to recover.
Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. October 25, 2006. Criss-crossing the country, I've learned most people are over the red-state/blue-state talk and are aching for politics that matter to them.
