Words have meaning, but the Beltway press is in the process of stripping "populism" of its descriptive value as pundits and reporters continue to misu...
Dan Siegel | Posted 10.06.2009 | Entertainment
With the glimmering hope of the Obama campaign behind us, Moore's film is a wake-up call to renew and expand America's democratic promise.
Anis Shivani | Posted 12.03.2009 | Business
Moore explicitly states that we ought to turn to democracy as the alternative to capitalism. But the opposite of capitalism is not democracy, it is socialism.
Jonathan Weiler | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics
If the slogan of left-wing populism might be "What about us?" the slogan of right-wing populism is "What about me and my kind?"
Chip Berlet | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
There are tens of millions of conservative Christian evangelicals who read, watch, or hear crazy messages on a weekly basis. Stop laughing and start organizing.
Chip Berlet | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
It is neither accurate nor useful to see the current Right wing as one gigantic top-down, corporate run, astroturf, revolt of ignorant wingnuts.
John Feffer | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
Yesterday's satire has become today's headlines. The fine art of argument is dead. In its place, we must endure playground taunts and invective. The temptation to respond in kind is enormous....
Robert Kuttner | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
A little bit of populist retribution is overdue against the people who brought down the system -- and will bring it down again if the hegemony of the traders is not constrained.
Salon | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
Aug. 3, 2009 | Is Sarah Palin America's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? The two differ in many key respects, of course, but it is remarkable how similar they are...
Mike Lux | Posted 07.27.2009 | Business
When you hear the phrase "but jobs are a lagging indicator," let's be clear: that's just another way of saying trickle-down economics.
bloomberg.com | Robert Schmidt | Posted 07.26.2009 | Business
june 25 (Bloomberg) -- Wall Street's largest trade group has started a campaign to counter the "populist" backlash against bankers, enlisting two form...
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.20.2009 | Media
Epithets like "socialist" and "fascist" enable people on the right to bond with each other and -- though they may not acknowledge it -- to alienate everybody else.
Jim Hightower | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics
Everyone's a populist now -- Limbaugh, Palin, Beck -- pretty much anyone claiming to speak for the people. But those people are to populism what near beer is to beer, only not as close.
David Sirota | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics
It's really Orwellian - you can barely find a news story referring to populism that doesn't put the word populism next to a word like "dangerous" or "angry."
Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 05.23.2009 | Business
The American people do not want the unconscionable interest rate increases made "easier to understand" -- we want them reversed.
Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 05.20.2009 | Business
President Obama seems to be hearing the growing outcry against the big bank pirates' declaration of war on the American people through their outrageous increases in credit card interest rates.
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 05.16.2009 | Media
Adriel Hampton joins our hosts Ted Johnson and Maegan Carberry to talk twitter and populism.
Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 05.16.2009 | Business
These rate increases -- some to as high as 29 percent -- are exactly the opposite of what the bad economy needs for recovery.
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics
"I am ashamed at getting my stimulus bill passed so quickly. Republicans, those masters of bipartisanship, offered their sincere efforts to delay this bill for months and, I admit, I ignored them."
Adam Green | Posted 04.27.2009 | Media
David Gregory, instead of calling the public stupid, how about saying on the air that there are, in fact, no "best and brightest" at AIG worth giving bonuses to if they threaten to leave?
Jim Jaffe | Posted 04.26.2009 | Home
Whether that history remains relevant today is the question of the moment. I'm not convinced that we're compelled to disown populism because of its anti-intellectual past.
AP | BEN McCONVILLE | Posted 04.25.2009 | Business
EDINBURGH, Scotland — Vandals attacked the home of the former head of the Royal Bank of Scotland, smashing windows early Wednesday at the house ...
Dave Astor | Posted 04.24.2009 | Comedy
Calming down about the obscene greed of AIG and other corporations weakens pressure on politicians to rein in that greed. It also sets a bad example.
Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.23.2009 | Politics
Such knee-jerk populist rage is precisely what gave populist rage a bad name in the first place, whereby a valid democratic outlook is construed as nothing more than an angry-mob uprising.
Don McNay | Posted 04.20.2009 | Business
There has been talk about appointing a new "Systemic Risk Regulator." This "Super Czar" would oversee all of the financial services industry. We had a "Super Czar" last year. His name was Henry Paulson.
Eric Boehlert | Posted 12.01.2009 | Media