Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. November 19, 2009. Lock our lawmakers in a room with the brilliant Dr. Elizabeth Warren until they start enacting policy that helps working people.
Maribel Hastings, America's Voice. November 16, 2009. Organized anti-immigrant groups range from extremist neo-Nazi organizations to respected Washington, D.C.-based think tanks.
Amy Traub, DMI Blog AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. October 30, 2009. The exploitation of undocumented immigrants threatens the wages, benefits and working conditions for all workers, but we're not addressing the root problem.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. October 20, 2009. Now that the FCC is articulating its commitment to a free and open Internet, watch the ISPs freak out.
Marshall Fitz, Center for American Progress. September 16, 2009. Hardliners have made clear that they will pursue any means—including false claims and ad hominem attacks—to derail both health care and immigration reform.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. September 10, 2009. By most indications, the left was pleased with last night's address, and the right wasn't. But what about Ben Nelson and Olympia Snowe?
Mike Lux, Open Left AlterNet: PEEK. September 3, 2009. The traditional media has talked itself into believing certain things about the fight over health care reform, often without any serious evidence.
Rob Johnson, NewDeal 2.0. August 31, 2009. By refusing to stand up to the finance oligarchs, the Obama Admistration fed the cynics and dissipated the opportunity for real change.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. August 19, 2009. The president's hands-off approach to reform has backfired, as overhaul of the health care system falls prey to wrangling in Congress.
Guy T. Saperstein, AlterNet. August 5, 2009. By every objective measure, the United States has a second-rate health care system -- and the only way to fix it is to create a public option.
Erica Werner, The Associated Press July 21, 2009. "The American people understand that the status quo is unacceptable," Obama said in a Rose Garden appearance.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. July 20, 2009. Republicans don't want Obama to be the president who finally delivers the overhaul Americans have been waiting for over the last several decades.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. July 15, 2009. When the White House signaled that the president would spend this week investing time and attention on health care reform, officials weren't kidding.
Suman Raghunathan, New America Media. June 29, 2009. It's “Game On!” for many reform advocates. But the various sides have already started spelling out what they will and will not accept.
Marcia Greenberger, RH Reality Check AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. May 14, 2009. Our current health care system fails to meet the needs of far too many women.
David Sirota, Open Left AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. April 25, 2009. Real reform - genuinely humane and tolerant immigration reform - is one that will help lift everyone up.