I write to you this morning from my parents house in Pennsylvania, after being up late last night appearing on CNN to discuss the role of the Internet...
Last night at the Strand Bookstore in New York City, a terrific panel discussed the uprising's impact on the current presidential campaign - and what ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - What you see here is a slide from the audiovisual presentation about THE UPRISING that I unveiled yesterday at a Campaign for Ameri...
Dobbs epitomizes both the positive potential of today's populist uprising to change our country's economic policies, and the negative potential to stoke anti-immigrant and xenophobic sentiment.
Obama can use his vice presidential selection to state that indeed the era of Clintonism is over, and the era of the uprising is on.
One of the things I've been finding when talking to groups is a palpable anger at our current trade and globalization policies -- an anger from both progressives and conservatives that I meet.
For a generation or so, the Right has dynamically adapted its reactionary ideas to sound like a populist, anti-establishment, for-the-little-guy agenda.
Somehow, mentioning McCain's statement that he's OK with America being in Iraq for 10,000 years is billed as unfair by the media, and laughed at by Republican strategists.
If Obama talks out of both sides of his mouth about NAFTA, he will fail to represent the uprising and take advantage of this populist moment -- and he will likely lose the election.
Earlier this week, I wrote a short dispatch about Barack Obama dancing around the issue of trade -- an issue at the heart of the populist uprising on ...
Per the last few posts, I debated my latest newspaper column on McCain and NAFTA on Fox Business. Watch it here: Progressives have a strong case to...
This is an ongoing series from the national tour for THE UPRISING. You can order The Uprising at Amazon.com or through your local independent bookstor...
LOUISVILLE, KY - I spent yesterday in Ohio's three biggest cities - Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati. With the Buckeye State among the hardest hit b...
We tend to complain a lot about not having progressive voices in the media, and yet we watch how the conservative movement rams their voices into the ...
A few weeks back, I wrote a New York Times magazine article about the populist uprising against unbridled oil and gas drilling in the Mountain West. T...
So by Obama's own admission, when he casts an anti-progressive vote on civil liberties, we shouldn't whip up wild fantasies about him supposedly doing it because he actually is progressive the issue.
My time in professional politics and journalism leads me to think that conceit, ambition, arrogance and greed have been exacerbated by television, the 24 hour news, starf*cker-ism, and the rise of the Internet.
