Brent Budowsky

Now here comes Grover Norquist, who compares the senior senator from New York to members of the political party of Heinrich Himmler and Adolf Eichmann.

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) believes that when the land of the free and the home of the brave gives an American the gift...

As Memorial Day approaches, I think about a time long ago when three young wounded warriors came home from a war that saved our nation from fascism to rebuild our nation from the ravages of world war and depression.

Their names were Bob, Dan and Phil, and they became the...

Across the nation and around the world there is a great populist wave that is challenging the injustice of the elites and the inequities of politics and finance, and at this moment, in our land, it is time for the true champions of the 99 percent to launch the largest...

Word on the street is Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Democrats will launch a major battle supporting pay equity for the women of America that could be a defining moment in the 2012 campaign.

Republican leaders complain about the phrase "war against women" that has been...

The increasingly likely victory of Francois Hollande in the French presidential election would be the shot for economic justice and jobs that will be heard around the world. It would be the repudiation by one of the world's leading nations of the unjust economics of the 1 percent that is...

Elizabeth Warren is different. She is the Ted Williams of the battle on behalf of the men and women who are correctly called the 99 percent, from the heartland to the homeless, who want nothing more than a good job, a fair deal and a nation that fully lives up...

We progressives have a dream: to elect leaders who inspire and mobilize men and women, throughout America and around the world, to realize the great aspirations of the two historical waves of our time, the Female Century and the Populist Century.

My suggestion is this: re-elect Barack Obama in 2012...

With Mitt Romney's "conservative" opponents destroyed by his lavishly financed onslaught of personal attacks against them, the great general-election question about the man called a weathervane by some, and the "Etch a Sketch" candidate by others, is this:

When will Mitt Romney next betray the right? When will he weathervane...

As the Supreme Court considers the health care law -- and in so doing, possibly dominates a national election for the third time since since 2000 -- Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) warns that a wave of corruption and scandal will result from the earlier high court decision in...

A century from now, presidents and students will be reflecting on the fate of freedom and the exchange of ideas that unfold on C-SPAN today, and can be viewed on C-SPAN video archives that tell the story of democracy and America in news cycles measured in minutes, hours, years, decades...

This week, former Vice President Al Gore called for an Occupy Democracy movement using the Internet to escalate the battle against the corruption of democracy. Meanwhile, the New York Times ran a major story describing how GOP super PAC mega-donors are far surpassing their Democratic competitors...

It was a banner week for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), who is brilliantly leading the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. The GOP continues its war against birth control and pay equity for women. Rick Santorum continues his crusade against the separation of...

President Obama can boldly reshape American politics and decisively revive the American economy by challenging oil speculators with an aggressive drawdown of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, sending Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Riyadh to urge a dramatic increase in Saudi oil production, fighting for a temporary surtax on speculative...

I was going to write a column today titled "Mitch Daniels on deck," but after watching a few minutes of the latest GOP debate, I turned off political television, turned on the Knicks-Hawks game, and did some thinking about Jeremy Lin.

I would argue, notwithstanding the endless echo chamber of...

This week we lost one of the great journalists of our age, Anthony Shadid, who died far too young, after doing so very much. Shadid was made from special stuff, the stuff of the foreign correspondent, and in recent years he brought real lives and big truths about great events...

In a sign of how far the conservative movement has fallen, Mitt Romney, the Jay Gatsby of the 2012 campaign, told the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) the magnificent lie that he was a "severely conservative" governor of Massachusetts. The CPAC delegates then voted for Romney as their presidential vision...

Because the Supreme Court majority launched a direct attack on American democracy in the Citizens United decision by allowing unlimited and undisclosed campaign donations, which reversed more than a century of judicial precedent and directly violated the pledge to respect precedent by Chief Justice John Roberts during his confirmation hearings,...

President Obama will receive great credit from historians and many voters in November for his triumph reviving the American auto industry, and making Made in America a badge of honor for this key sector of the national economy.

It is a useful moment to consider the career of a great...

While President Obama lifts his presidency to champion the cause of jobs that are made in the USA, his Republican opponents stake their plans for power, to a degree that no great party in the history of the republic has ever attempted, on the prospect of the American economy failing.

This is a story about three great women and two historic waves that embody the political, social, cultural, economic and consumer waves that are transforming America and the world in real time.

The three women are:

The first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, is one of the most...