by Dave McGill
This is no longer a sputtering recovery. It is an economy in a nosedive with jobs as its centerpiece. The dimensions of the new collapse are exploding the myths that have been spouted by the elitist economists who claim to represent the “conventional wisdom” of the day. Of course, nearly all these particular [...]

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by Dave McGill
Rove is back and it’s not good news for the Democrats as they look forward to the mid-term elections.

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by Dave McGill
The California election on Tuesday gave us an unusually pure, almost laboratory-like, view of the grip that corporations have on our electoral process. No, this isn’t about the $82 million, of her own money, that Meg Whitman spent to buy the right to be the Republican candidate for governor. Not that [...]

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by Bernard Weiner, The Crisis Papers
Like a lot of progressives, I’ve been puzzling over the Tea Party phenomenon. Many on the left choose to believe that the hundreds and sometimes thousands who attend the group’s rallies are the same old extreme rightwingers who always have been around — usually content to remain isolated individuals [...]

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by Dave McGill
It’s still a long, long way to November and much can happen in the interim. The Republicans are counting on a healthcare backlash. However, the “salesman-in chief,” is out there expounding the measure’s benefits to the middle class and, by election time, it may just be yesterday’s news.

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