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David Sirota is the bestselling author of “Hostile Takeover” (Crown, 2006). He is a senior fellow at the Campaign for America’s Future and a board member of the Progressive States Network—both nonpartisan research organizations. His daily blog can be found at http://www.credoaction.com/sirota.


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2009

11/20 Intelligentsia Against Intelligence

11/12 Where Are the Real Deficit Hawks?

11/05 We Are What We Trade and How We Trade It

10/29 TARP on Steroids

10/22 A Tale of Two Supermen—and Their Drugs

10/15 When Did Olympia Snowe Become Queen of America?

10/08 Night of the Living Deadbeats

10/01 Who’s in Charge: Obama, Congress or the Military?

09/25 Let Blue Dogs Face the Music

09/17 Selective Deficit Disorder

09/10 We’ve Seen This Trigger Before

09/03 Progressives Pay the Price for Confusing a Party With a Movement

08/28 The Science Fiction of Military Marketing

08/21 Freedom From Fear—and the Second Amendment

08/13 Don’t You Forget About John Hughes

08/07 The Me-First, Screw-Everyone-Else Crowd

07/31 Health Care Tyranny by 13 Obstructionists

07/23 The Attack of the 1-Percenters

07/17 China Is Here

06/25 Getting Off the Grid

06/18 Daring to Dream

06/11 All Politics, and Change, Is Still Local

06/04 Whither the Sacred Campaign Promise?

05/28 Fessing Up Has Lost Its Shock Value

05/22 The House That Taxpayers Built

05/15 Health Care’s Enigma in Chief

05/01 With Their Magic Bullet, Dems Have No More Excuses

04/23 News Flash: Populism Is Popular

04/17 Columbine Questions We Still Don’t Ponder

04/10 The Best Investment Money Can Buy

04/02 This Is the Truth on Drugs ... Any Questions?

03/26 Newspapers’ Self-Inflicted Wounds

03/19 A Government of Men, Not Laws

03/12 For Competition Before They Were Against It

03/05 The A Word

02/26 Robin-Hood Republicanism?

02/19 Past the Point of No Return

02/13 Addicted to Fake Outrage

02/06 A Team of Zombies

01/29 Making Him Do It

01/23 The Gulf Between Hope and Change

01/15 Fool Me Once

01/01 FDR Prolonged the Depression? Really?

2008

12/26 Economic Death and Millionaire Taxes

12/19 We Are All Las Vegans Now

12/11 We Told You So

12/05 Those Other Elections

11/28 Our Dear Leader

11/20 Tuning Out the Braindead Megaphone

11/14 Knowing When to Walk Away

11/06 Only One Good Path for the Democrats: Go Big

10/31 Mandate ‘08: Reagan vs. FDR

10/23 McCain Banking on a Confederacy of Dunces

10/17 Signs of an Earthquake in Oregon

10/10 It’s Henry Paulson’s Move

10/02 Saying ‘No Deal’ to This New Deal

09/25 Back in the USSR

09/18 No Time for a Minimalist

09/11 Country First? Hardly

09/04 Making Goliath Walk

08/28 An Unconventional Convention

08/21 The Conquest by Presidentialism

08/15 Will Obama Wave Bayh-Bye to the White House?

08/07 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Denver

07/31 The 5 Best Political Comedies

07/24 Six Little Words

07/17 ‘Centrists’ Running the Asylum

07/10 Anywhere Becomes Everywhere

06/26 This Summer’s Trilogy of Truth

06/19 Countering Race With Class

06/12 An Anti-Clinton for VP

06/05 The Populist Uprising

05/29 The Lamont Lesson

05/22 A Welcome ‘Shareholder Democracy’

05/15 Toward a New Washington Consensus

05/08 Acknowledging the Race Chasm

05/02 The Plague of Potomac Fever

04/24 Matthews vs. McNulty

04/23 Pennsylvania and the Persistence of the Race Chasm

04/17 Colorado Still Sneers at Labor

04/10 The Long, Sorrowful Ludlow Legacy

04/03 Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

03/27 Is Wright Right About Racism?

03/21 New Crisis, Old Isms

03/13 Remembering What Nixon Learned

03/06 Hope in the Time of NAFTA

02/28 The New Permanent Campaign

02/22 A Trade Transformation

02/15 The Candidate of the Permanent Will

02/07 The Democrats’ Class War

01/31 Rocky Mountain Realities

01/24 The Stimulus Swindle

01/17 Digging in the Right Place

01/10 Stay Classy, Mike Huckabee

2007

12/28 The Path to a National Popular Vote

12/20 Fear, Loathing and the Crisis of Confidence

12/13 When Barbarians Take Hostages

12/06 Flying Coach on a Planetary Scale

11/30 Conservative, or Just Plain Corrupt?

11/22 Was Ross Perot Right?

               

               


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