Can Podesta Craft a Transition to a New Progressive Era?
Leaders of presidential transition teams are expected to be discreet, tight-lipped, button-down, servants of power, but not quite so in the case of Jo...
Leaders of presidential transition teams are expected to be discreet, tight-lipped, button-down, servants of power, but not quite so in the case of Jo...
Rob Kall | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics
What do you call someone who unnecessarily puts one of America's biggest industries at serious risk and sells out millions of his country's workers abilities to make an honest living?
Lori Wallach | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics
From the presidential race to both chambers of Congress, successful candidates in 2008 election races ran on a platform of fundamental overhaul of U.S. trade and globalization policies.
Howie Klein | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics
If any member of Congress personifies a willingness to sell out his constituents' economic interests for the sake of special interests, it is Robin Hayes.
Susan Kelley-Stamerra | Posted 09.26.2008 | Home
If women aren't looked after in this election, in this economic environment, the losses will be substantial and lasting.
Eliza Margarita Bates and Cara Zwerling | Posted 09.18.2008 | Home
Over the course of this week, OffTheBus is running a primer on some of the most important foreign policy issues the next president will face. The primer can act as a guide to how candidates Barack Obama and John McCain stand on each issue. Check out the links for more information on these issues. Today, the primer looks at where Obama and McCain stand on Iraq, Afghanistan and trade policy.
Erik Ose | Posted 08.26.2008 | Politics
These contests will help determine whether the party can hold off Republicans' attempts to seize back control of Congress, or add seats to the Democratic majority they gained in 2006.
Nathaniel Bach | Posted 07.21.2008 | Home
Obama's fifty-state strategy is not about his winning these states in this election. It's about "trickle up" politics and grassroots efforts on a national scale, all of which will help sow the seeds of future Democratic majorities.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics
A week ago, if you'd asked most people to say the first thing that popped into their heads when they heard the word "Colombia," you might have gotten: "coffee," "cocaine," or maybe even "kidnappings." Today that list would probably be led by "Clinton."
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics
The entire debate over the Colombia Free Trade Agreement is taking place as if Ronald Reagan were president and it was still "morning in America."
Lori Wallach | Posted 02.22.2008 | Politics
As America's anxiety grows, the economy not only is becoming a preeminent issue of the election, but the candidates are responding to public anxiety about the current model of globalization.
Lori Wallach | Posted 01.25.2008 | Politics
How did a U.S. trade agreement with Peru of all countries become a political hot potato in the recent Congressional Black Caucus CNN debate? With repe...
Gerardo Cajamarca Alarcón | Posted 01.24.2008 | Politics
I would ask U.S. Congressmen, is it ethical for them to sign a treaty with a country whose legislature is infiltrated by partisans of the terrorist paramilitaries.
James P. Hoffa | Posted 12.10.2007 | Business
American workers don't want deals like NAFTA, CAFTA and PNTR. They've seen through the false promises that "free trade" will create more exports, better jobs and better wages.
David Sirota | Posted 11.28.2007 | Politics
As many of you know, this year I have started writing a nationally syndicated weekly newspaper column through Creators Syndicate. From the beginning,...
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 11.27.2007 | Business
Why we would pretend that labor rights can be enforced as a secondary issue in countries around the world--when we can't even enforce basic labor rights here--exposes the true fallacy of so-called "free trade."
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 10.12.2007 | Politics
The Wall Street Journal has an interview today with George Bush that gives great insight into the disinformation, lies and, charitably, cognitive d...
David Sirota | Posted 10.09.2007 | Media
To kick this off, I want to ask readers for some input on my first few columns. I want to try to be the first Open Columnist, if you will - and this is just the beginning.
Robert Naiman | Posted 10.08.2007 | Politics
Congress should hold hearings on allegations that the Bush administration deliberately interfered in the Costa Rican referendum.
Robert Naiman | Posted 10.06.2007 | Politics
If the referendum tomorrow in Costa Rica passes narrowly, it will be entirely plausible that illegal and anti-democratic threats and intimidation from Washington determined the result.
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 10.06.2007 | Politics
It is politically inconceivable that the Democratic majority in Congress -- which voted against CAFTA when it was approved here -- would move to punish Costa Rica for its voters having rejected the same agreement.
Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 10.05.2007 | Politics
The editorial page of the WSJ, the pundits for the plutocrats, twice this week weighed in on what it thinks is good for Costa Rica. They also had a thing or two to say about me.
David Sirota | Posted 10.05.2007 | Politics
Whatever happens with this weekend's vote, what we are seeing in Costa Rica both from our government and voters there is nothing short of monumental.
David Sirota | Posted 10.03.2007 | Politics
It is frustrating being part of the progressive movement these days - truly frustrating. And I say that not because I am on book deadline and exhauste...
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Tom Hayden | Posted 12.30.2008 | Politics