Boeing: Taking Taxpayer Dollars and Breaking Promises
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...
Who Should the Democrats Support in South Dakota? The Democrat
There is some chatter amongst some D.C. Democrats that it really doesn’t matter in the South Dakota Senate race which of the two...
Strange Things Happening in the Plains States
In the 1880s and 1890s, a prairie wildfire swept through American politics. The generation of pioneers that had taken the risk to head...
Four Weeks Out: What Will Be the Narrative of Election 2014?
Almost every election year has a driving narrative that determines how voters (and, just as importantly, those who choose not to vote)...
The Koch Agenda and the Republican Party: Why Won’t They Answer the Question?
It is no wonder why the Koch brothers always hold their political retreats with their fellow billionaires and multimillionaires in highly...
Creative Tension: Hillary and the Progressive Movement
When I worked in the Clinton White House, our first big blowout of a fight was the 1993 budget battle. We ended winning every vote by the...
The Narrative of the Koch Brothers Tapes: The Debate We Have to Have
The Koch brothers secret conference tapes have by now generated well over 100 national media stories, cable news segments, local TV clips...
Why Won’t McConnell Answer the Question?
Incredible, yet highly predictable new video out today from Lauren Windsor at The Undercurrent (disclosure: my organization, American...
The 47 Percent on Steroids, With a Hit of Koch
It appears from what Mitch McConnell said at the opening of his speech to the Koch brothers’ secret conference in June, that he found the...
The Meaning of the Koch Brothers Tapes: “I Don’t Know Where We’d Be Without You”
One of the classic strategies for politicians caught saying embarrassing things is to use the old “there’s nothing to see here, keep...
