David Sirota: Senate Health Care Bill Is A 'Handout To The Health Industry'
The Senate health care bill betrays the promise of fundamental "change" Democrats made during the 2008 election. It cloaks a handout to the health ind...
The Senate health care bill betrays the promise of fundamental "change" Democrats made during the 2008 election. It cloaks a handout to the health ind...
Westword | Michael Roberts | Posted 12.10.2009 | Denver
Jay Marvin has been unable to helm the AM 760 morning show since early March due to a life-threatening health crisis we've documented in this space. ...
Mike Lux | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
In a political system like ours dominated by big money and the lobbyists that money hires, democracy requires eternal vigilance, even in years when Democrats control of Congress and the White House.
Michael D. Brown | Posted 11.21.2009 | Denver
We should never refrain from expressing our opinions with emotions and passions for fear that the nut case will hear it wrong and act out violently.
Posted 11.14.2009 | Denver
Watch Romanoff's remarks, courtesy of denverdirect.tv at Wednesday's Denver campaign event in Washington Park: Update: Andrew Romanoff has pic...
dscriber media | dscriber media | Posted 11.14.2009 | Home
Progressive columnist and author David Sirota is telling his friends on Facebook that he's receiving death threats after appearing on CNN to di...
Westword | Westword | Posted 11.11.2009 | Home
Yeah, I hate typing that date, too. Today in Backbeat Online: • Our top 5 Monolith can't-miss acts. • Q&A with Frank Turner. • Q&A ...
Westword | Westword | Posted 11.11.2009 | Home
In April, KOA conservative Mike Rosen and AM 760 liberal David Sirota participated in a debate of President Barack Obama's first hundred da...
David Sirota | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
The White House answers more to Glenn Beck than it does to the progressive base of the Democratic Party that got them into the White House in the first place.
Thomas Frank | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics
What makes the Blue Dogs run? Profit motive. Individual Dogs do far better than garden variety Democrats when it comes to bringing in contributions the insurance and medical industries.
The Media Consortium | Posted 08.28.2009 | Home
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...
Jennifer Nix | Posted 04.02.2009 | Media
I hope you'll take a moment to consider why I think your move with the 10 p.m. program is so important, and why David Sirota is the best candidate for host.
David Sirota | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics
My friend and fellow OpenLeft.com writer Chris Bowers launched a formal campaign to ask MSNBC to consider me for the slot, and now I'm asking for your help.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.20.2009 | Politics
Ugh. This is the sort of day that it's been, that I've found myself slogging through the two sides of a terrifically boring blogfight between Open Le...
Adam Green | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics
I realized at MoveOn that it makes no sense for progressives to raise tons of money for candidates who then spend it inefficiently. We need to help them run effective campaigns and win.
Lee Stranahan | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics
People hear what they want to hear sometimes and the politically charged atmosphere doesn't seem to have lost it's electricity just because No Drama Obama won in a landslide.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics
Liberal commenter David Sirota responds to Obama Deputy Campaign Manager Steve Hildebrand's missive to critics, wondering if Democrats "were elected t...
OurFuture.org | David Sirota | Posted 12.23.2008 | Politics
When I wrote my first column about the "center-right nation" and subsequently launched the "Center-Right Nation Watch" series on this blog I predicted...
Wendy Block | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics
I'm not ready to return to the same non-adrenaline-rush grassroots work that propelled Obama and the Dems to such a decisive victory.
Stephen Herrington | Posted 11.29.2008 | Home
If more people have more money, then more business is done and a small increase in taxes comes right back to you. If you are in the forefront of innovation, more comes to you.
Sarah van Gelder | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics
You've probably been there. It's a family gathering, maybe Thanksgiving or a wedding, and someone starts a political conversation that is as ill-infor...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
A new book by a prominent progressive author contains a rather ironic revelation: CNN's Lou Dobbs -- the disgruntled television voice of anti-immigrat...
USA Today | David Sirota | Posted 12.23.2009 | Politics