Author: rootless2

The New York Times outdoes itself in hard hitting financial reporting today, some current and former Goldman executives say Mr. Blankfein has built a money machine that, while it still values its customers, culture and...

During the Presidential primary campaign, Paul Rosenberg’s essays on ideology and “hegemony” provoked nothing more than snickers from me, but he was sort of right. It’s impossible to understand the...

There is a widely held point of view on the “left” blogs based on the theory that (a) the correct political tactic is to lambaste and insult the President and the Democratic leadership in the most virulent language...

Here’s Atrios As Krugman says, to reduce unemployment significantly you need more than “normal” growth, you need turbo-charged growth. And here’s Paul with some obviously false, but totally orthodox...

(cross posted in DKos http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/9/12/780979/-Liberalism-is-deadhow-to-make-progress ) There are three enemies of change in the US: the insurrectionist “conservatives”, the corrupt...