Month: September 2008

The Promise of Opportunity

Taking another look at "New Progressive Voices," a collection of essays outlining a new long-term, progressive vision for America, today we turn to our Executive Director, Alan Jenkins’, contribution. The piece...

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Congressional Strategery

If you tell someone that you don’t have the power to do something, it’s hard to convince them that you can accomplish it with more power. In all my time blogging, this simple concept has been more misunderstood than...

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We appear to be screwed.

“No one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.” — Herbert Hoover, 1928 Let’s talk about McCain, Obama, The American Taxpayers, the Bailout of Wall Street and why we are...

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Quotes of the Day (Bailout Ed.)

From Bob Herbert of the New York “Not a Journalistic Organization” Times, on the man Newsweek magazine lauds as the “Captain of Wall Street” and praises as the “right man at the right time.”...

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