The Voices

The Bush-Cheney regime may be on its last legs, but a new incarnation of right-wing populism is shadowing the near horizon. read more »

tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com — Trapped into making war for laissez faire, conservatives can't reconcile their yearning for a sacred, ordered liberty with their obeisance to every whim of global capital, which is abandoning small-town America and urban America, a capital whose injustices and consumer palliatives are subverting our republican institutions and character.

thenation.com — Never in recent American history has the candidate of a party seeking to maintain its hold on the presidency seen its candidate so aggressively dismiss the legacy of the incumbent commander-in-chief and his allies, while simultaneously committing himself to more of the same.

motherjones.com — Will a new president give back the authority that Bush and Cheney grabbed for the executive? Government officials do not as a rule like to give up power, and President Bush has grabbed plenty of power for the executive branch since 9/11. If the problem is to be fixed — and it is essential that we fix it — it will only be because of sustained and popular pressure for change.

huffingtonpost.com — Nearly a century ago, Congress established the federal Department of Labor to be the advocate and champion for working Americans. Specifically, the department was created to advance three core goals: "to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment." However, under the Bush Presidency, these goals — and the interests of workers — have been under direct assault.

truthout.org — The good news is that nearly two million people were evacuated and spared the direct hit of Gustav on the Gulf Coast. The bad news is that most people have not been allowed to return.

prospect.org — It took liberals 30 years to take conservatism seriously. Now we're obsessed with it.

marketwatch.com — Two years ago conservatives predicted a "permanent majority" lasting "for years, maybe decades." No exit. But the hubris gods had other plans. Now the "final act" of the Reagan Revolution's glory days is being scripted, in grand Shakespearean style, not for 2008 but in 2011.

openleft.com — The Gustav narrative can be about climate change and the need for a progressive sustainable economy, and the first step is to make the case for why our politics can handle problems as big as these hurricanes.

motherjones.com — Where are Katrina evacuee families supposed to go once FEMA kicks them out? A trailer park tale continues.