William Greider

After 25 Years of Losing to Wall Street, Left-Wing Democrats Are Winning

The rebellion of House Democrats that blocked the president’s trade deal with Asia is more than political humiliation for Barack Obama. It is the start of something far bigger—the revival of the...

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Linda McQuaig

Harper's Voter Suppression Plan: Coming Soon to a Polling Station Near You

Stephen Harper's re-election strategy depends on a lot of you not voting. And if you mess with his plan by showing up at the polling station on Election Day, he's prepared for that, too: he's made it...

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Barbara Ransby

Ella Taught Me: Shattering the Myth of the Leaderless Movement

Who gets to tell the story? This is a question implicit in the work I do as a historian. But the question I have been wrestling with lately is more immediate: Who gets to shape the narrative, define...

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Bill Moyers and Bernard Weisberger

Fast-Track Derails Democracy

Pro-democracy forces won a big victory Friday when they stalled the top-secret Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement backed by the White House and the Republican leadership in Congress. But it’s...

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Lori Wallach

Fast Track Down

The Fast Track trade authority package was rejected Friday because two years of effort by a vast corporate coalition, the White House and GOP leaders -- and weeks of deals swapped for yes votes --...

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Robert Kuttner

The Real Meaning Behind Obama's Trade Defeat

The labor movement won big in the defeat of the trade package Friday. But a lot of the commentators are somewhat mystified. After all, the labor movement is a smaller fraction of the workforce than...

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Paul Buchheit

How to Steal from the Taxpayers While Blaming the Poor

It's a vicious circle of hypocrisy: Americans dependent on the safety net are urged to "get a job" by the same free-market system that pays them too little to avoid being dependent on the safety net...

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