Do-Nothing Congress—Our current Congress, upon returning to work after a five-week summer vacation, could follow the lead of Congresses past and whisk through a flurry of bills before leaving town for another month in the run-up to the November midterm elections. But if the last year is any indication, it won’t. The House of Representatives, […]

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Editor’s Note: David Sirota is an occasional contributor to these pages and the author of a recent bestseller, Hostile Takeover, about the big money corruption that is perverting our democratic system of government. With the prospects good for the Democrats to regain control of at least one chamber of Congress, come November, Sirota says there is […]

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Fields of Nativism—As the nation was consumed by terror threats and by war in the Middle East, conservative Republicans were talking about . . . illegal immigration. House Republicans used the August congressional recess to hold 21 field hearings in 13 states, 15 of which just happened to be in battleground districts for the ’06 […]

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Wanted: A Foreign Policy—Since the Bush administration decided to abandon its doctrine of pre-emptive military force in the wreckage and rubble of Iraq, conservative hawks have begun labeling President Bush “weak,” “soft,” and “Clintonian.” The cover of Time heralded “the end of cowboy diplomacy.” The establishment journal Foreign Affairs echoed this with “The End of the Bush Revolution.” All […]

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In the 1980s Chevrolet proclaimed itself the “Heartbeat of America.” Today, many would say that the American auto industry barely has a pulse. Last November, General Motors (owner of the Chevy brand) announced that it was cutting 25,000 jobs and closing up to 12 factories by 2008. The news came one month after auto-parts giant […]

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