REVOLT RAGES ON
KEY DEMOCRAT JOINS PROTEST AGAINST OBAMA

Stephen Gyllenhaal, 05/24/12

Stirring the pot...

I made a comedy movie to go with this election cycle. But to be honest, I can't claim I was prescient about just how comedic the political scene would become. Or how tragic. And nothing fits better with tragedy than comedy.

Marlo Thomas, 05/24/12

Award-winning actress, author, and activist

Here are some of the women who left an indelible mark during their time in the White House.

Randy Turner, 05/24/12

English teacher

As a teacher who has students write research papers on the American Civil Rights Movement, I was stunned to find out that I am on the wrong side of the great civil rights issue of our time. It has to be true. Mitt Romney says so.

Dolores Huerta, 05/24/12

Co-Founder of United Farm Workers, President of the Dolores Huerta Foundation, Board Member of People For the American Way

A better country for immigrants is a better country for all. A better country for gays and lesbians is a better country for all. We're all in this together.

Rep. Jim McGovern, 05/24/12

U.S. Representative from Massachusetts' 3rd District

Defenders of Citizens United and the corporate rights doctrine that underlies it must be getting nervous. Why else would George Will resort to arguing that the amendment I have introduced is "comparable" to condoning infanticide?

Steve Dubb, 05/24/12

Research Director, Democracy Collaborative

As resistance has grown to America's widening gulf between the "1 percent" and the rest of the population, something new has exploded in America's communities; "community wealth building" is an explicit strategy to democratize the ownership of wealth from the ground up.

Robert Reich, 05/24/12

Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley; Author, 'Beyond Outrage'

Mitt Romney epitomizes the unfairness of the American economy in this new Gilded Age. For that same reason, Romney is the quintessence of an economic approach shown to be anti-growth and anti-jobs. The president needs to tell this to the American people.

Michael J. Petrilli, 05/24/12

Executive Vice President, Thomas B. Fordham Institute

Today, there's not a single Republican in the House of Representatives willing to defend federal accountability mandates. The GOP conversation has shifted to transparency. What a difference a decade makes.

Eric T. Schneiderman, 05/24/12

New York Attorney General

Nothing less than the integrity of our democracy is at stake. That's why New York is leading a bipartisan coalition of twenty-two states and the District of Columbia in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold state restrictions on corporate campaign spending in the wake of Citizens United.

Richard Zombeck, 05/24/12

Founder, Home Preservation Network

A wrap-up of stories and posts you might have missed or overlooked -- the ones below the fold: There's been more than the usual static from the Federal Reserve Banks this month.

Eric Alterman, 05/24/12

Distinguished Professor of English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York

The United States finds itself in an odd political predicament. One of its two major political parties is increasingly dominated by a faction of people that simply denies those aspects of reality it finds to be inconvenient.

David Isenberg, 05/24/12

Author, 'Shadow Force: Private Security Contractors in Iraq'

Since advocates argue that of private contractors frequently act just as meritoriously and valorously as regular military personnel, excluding contractors from receiving medals means contractors are not seen as part of an honored class.

Edward Flattau, 05/24/12

Environmental newspaper columnist

Which environmental policies reflect the real Mitt Romney? Those he displayed as Massachusetts governor, or the ones that the Republican Party is asking him to embrace as a presidential candidate?

Bob Cesca, 05/23/12

Host of The Bob & Chez Show, Media Producer

Arguably the biggest lie coming from the Republicans and the Romney campaign is that President Obama is a tax and spend liberal who's directly and personally responsible for record deficits and a crushing national debt.

Jess Coleman, 05/24/12

Student, New York City Lab School

It's amazing what you can gain from lying. It can get you in jail or lose you a few friends. But done the right way, lying can mislead an entire country -- and maybe even get you elected president.

Robert Weissman, 05/23/12

President, Public Citizen

It's going to take some time to suss out exactly what happened with the Facebook IPO, but step back and consider the broader implications. They are staggering.

Chris Weigant, 05/23/12

Political writer and blogger at ChrisWeigant.com

Republicans in the New York state government are attempting to pass a law that would ban anonymous comments online. Even if they actually passed the act, once it arrived in a federal court it would be tossed out in a "New York minute" (as they say).