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Weekly Pulse: Healthcare Reform After Kennedy

The Media Consortium | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics


The Media Consortium

If the Democrats want healthcare reform, they are going to have to go it alone. Let's hope they pass a bill that would make Sen. Kennedy proud.

Forget Glenn Beck: The Problem is Murdoch

Adele Stan | Posted 09.20.2009 | Media


Adele Stan

Color of Change has done a remarkable thing: One by one, they have moved Beck's advertisers to pull their ads, the latest being Walmart. No small feat. But I'm not sure how much Beck's bosses really care.

Weekly Pulse: Public Option on Life Support

The Media Consortium | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics


The Media Consortium

The White House is sorely mistaken if it thinks that the public option belongs in the "nice but not necessary" category. Without it, there's little hope of containing costs or reigning in the power of insurance companies.

Weekly Pulse: Mob Scene

The Media Consortium | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics


The Media Consortium

Republicans and their allies are pressuring Democratic healthcare reformers at townhall meetings around the country. Addie Stan has a blockbuster piece in AlterNet that exposes the network behind the mobs.

Weekly Audit: Why the Rich Can't Afford to Get Richer

The Media Consortium | Posted 08.28.2009 | Home


The Media Consortium

by Zach Carter, TMC MediaWire Blogger If we want our economy to be strong and stable, we have to start thinking about it as a product of community--n...

Weekly Immigration Wire: It's a Multicultural World, After All

The Media Consortium | Posted 08.23.2009 | World


The Media Consortium

In an increasingly connected world, our immigration policy impacts the health and well-being of many peoples and economies.

Weekly Pulse: The Rocky Road to Reform

The Media Consortium | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics


The Media Consortium

Obama must have been disappointed when the non-partisan CBO announced last week that the Dem's healthcare bills won't cut spending, as he won't sign a bill that doesn't contain cost cuts.

Is Whole Foods Market Just Another Evil Corporation?

Christiana Wyly | Posted 06.28.2009 | New York


Christiana Wyly

Whether history decides that WFM's stance against unions is wise or misguided, this single issue hardly outweighs the tremendous good that it has done for the culture of sustainability.

McCain Undone By Affect And Temperament
McCain NewsLadder

The Media Consortium | Posted 11.16.2008 | Home


The Media Consortium

Special Debate Edition In the much-anticipated final presidential debate of the 2008 campaign season, the man who landed the greatest number of punch...

It's Singles Week - Someone Tell Newsweek There Are 100 Million of Us and We Vote

Bella DePaulo | Posted 10.22.2008 | Media


Bella DePaulo

This week, September 21-27, is National Singles Week. If you think it is unnecessary to do a bit of consciousness-raising about people who are single ...

Meet the Bloggers: Henry Rollins and Paul Waldman Spurn the Media's Love for McCain

Robert Greenwald | Posted 10.07.2008 | Media


Robert Greenwald

2008-09-07-meetblogg.jpg Make no mistake, FOX is willing to do whatever it takes to advance their conservative agenda. They will lie, smear, and distort to their hearts' content.

I've Written a Book I'd Like You to Read ...a note from Michael Moore

Michael Moore | Posted 09.25.2008 | Home


Michael Moore

Friends, This morning my new book officially goes on sale. It has a fancy title: "Mike's Election Guide." It's cheap ($11.19 on Amazon). It's got a c...

Squealing on the Left At Obama's Back Flips

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Some are disappointed with him because they had an inflated, starry-eyed hope that he was the man who would magically undue Bush's wreckage. This expectation was unfair to Obama.