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I have been thinking a lot about the incomparable Julian Bond the last couple of days, but as he would no doubt be saying, in spite of...

A leading Republican regulator, SEC Commissioner Michael Piwowar, said in a speech to Cato recently that the goal of the Securities and...

I wrote on Friday about the way the modern conservative movement, and the Republican party which is owned by it, have devolved into a...

My careful and objective analysis, based on 35 years in political life, is that ALEC is one of the sleaziest organizations in modern...

So the fast track plan to pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership has run into a new wrinkle after an amendment passed in the Senate debate:...

Regulatory agencies do a ton of hearings and other discussions and events that don’t get a lot of attention at the time, but turn out, in...

The trade debate is a thoroughly engrossing saga full of intriguing story lines, as both parties find themselves in civil wars as the...

There is a lot of great thinking about policy that is driving progressive movement organizing right now. While policy discussion in the...

This letter from Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown sets the perfect tone for the debate on the TPP. It is respectful while at the same...

At the Stop Fast Track Rally yesterday, AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka talked about the White House trying to undermine labor solidarity...

Elizabeth Warren has given her fair share of great speeches, and has written some outstanding legislation on reforming Wall Street, but...

It is easy to get discouraged about the American political scene. Billionaires and big business keep spending absurd amounts on buying up...

The progressive community lost one of its toughest and smartest fighters yesterday. Larry died in a car crash on a trip to Florida, and...

“He has pulled down the princes from from their thrones and exalted the lowly. The hungry he has filled with good things, the rich sent...

There is a lot of talk in Democratic party circles about populism (which among Democrats is generally of a more progressive nature) vs...

Wall Street lobbyists have snuck into the budget package an amendment that would repeal the part of Dodd-Frank that reins in the...

Hedge fund CEOs and various kinds of slick venture capitalists see tapping the public education “market” — the pool of public dollars...

Okay, so the elections were really awful. We have a lot of very serious work to do in the progressive movement. But sometimes when things...

Seeing as how it is just three weeks prior to the elections, I very rarely would write about anything else right now, but I just have to...

One area where a lot of us populist progressives agree with at least the rhetoric of the Tea Party is the issue of subsidies to big...