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  1. Trickle-Down Election Economics: How Big Money Can Affect Small Races After unsuccessfully challenging Gov. Andrew Cuomo the 2014 Democratic primary, Zephyr Teachout is the Democratic party nominee for a seat on Congress. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
    8 Aug 2016 … At a press event in Kingston, New York, a Hudson Valley community about 90 miles north of Manhattan, the local Democratic congressional candidate, Zephyr Teachout, earlier this month called for a debate. But not with her Republican opponent, John Faso. Continue reading
  2. The new Obama Administration: David Sirota, Thomas Frank, Melissa Harris-Lacewell and Patricia Williams Weigh in Barack Obama holds his right hand in the air as he and Michelle Obama both smile towards a balding man whose back is to the camera while a large crowd watches.
    1 Jan 2009 … Bill Moyers and guests discuss Barack Obama taking office and what this political milestone means for the future. Continue reading
  3. With God on Their Side: Evangelicals in America
    4 Apr 2017 … Evangelicals are a potent force in American political life — they make up nearly a quarter of the population, and in the recent election, 81 percent of white, born-again evangelicals voted for Donald Trump. According to recent surveys, that support Continue reading
  4. ‘My Dad Still Supports My Daughter and Me Because My KFC Job Doesn’t Pay Enough’ Frankie Tisdale is a fast-food worker at KFC, Brooklyn. He has joined protests for a higher minimum wage. (Moyers & Company/Neha Tara Mehta)
    6 Jun 2014 … Frankie Tisdale makes less than $10 per hour working at a KFC in Brooklyn. Last month, he joined global protests for a higher minimum wage. A photo-feature. Continue reading
  5. David Sirota’s Word of the Week: Looting We’re missing billions in taxes each year. That’s partly why our roads and transit systems are falling apart. (Mural by graffiti artist Alec Monopoly / Photo by aisletwentytwo | Flickr CC 2.0)
    5 May 2020 … We don’t call this “looting” because it is being done quietly in nice marbled office buildings in Washington and New York. We don’t call this “looting” because the looters wear designer suits and are very polite as they eagerly steal Continue reading
  6. After Living in Norway, America Feels Backward. Here’s Why.
    1 Jan 2016 … Some years ago, I faced up to the futility of reporting true things about America’s disastrous wars and so I left Afghanistan for another remote mountainous country far away. It was the polar opposite of Afghanistan: a peaceful, prosperous land Continue reading
  7. Are Tiny Houses the Key to Fighting Homelessness? An architect's rendering of Quixote Village in Olympia, Wash. Image courtesy of Panza.
    2 Feb 2014 … Government officials and city planners are beginning to see the tiny-house village as one viable solution for addressing homelessness. Continue reading
  8. Filmmaker David Puttnam (Part One) Sir Richard Attenborough, David Puttnam and Bob Geldof at the BAFTA Film Awards in London, 1988 (Rex Features via AP Images)
    9 Sep 1988 … A conversation with the filmmaker behind The Killing Fields, The Mission and Chariots of Fire explains how he sees American movies as the reflection of a nation at odds with itself. Continue reading
  9. How Did Democrats Become the Party of Elites? Donkey (Photo by Georgia Democrats/ flickr CC 2.0)
    7 Jul 2017 … What's most toxic in American politics today — as it has been throughout our history — is to become the party associated with domineering overlords and supercilious elites who seem to enjoy wielding power over the rest of us. Continue reading
  10. Unsanitized: No Double Dip Recession for the Millions in Depression
    11 Nov 2020 … The pandemic has supercharged inequality. Millions of people suffering aren’t just getting the cold shoulder from Congress; they’re about to get dumped off the “COVID cliff” — a number of relief policies that expire at the end of December. Continue reading