Ruth Conniff

How do we get where we want to be—nonprofit national health care—from where we are right now?read more

“Women about one second older than I was and one second earlier in the job market were the ones who filed the suits and did the demonstrations and forced newspapers to start hiring women and promoting them.”read more

Bunning's obstructionist stand epitomizes Republican politics: cruel and out of touch—totally unconcerned about people's suffering.read more

Obama plays it in the safe zone, to the detriment of the unemployed and the uninsured.read more

Tune in to find out what kind of "progress not politics" the ex-Senator makes as he looks for private sector employment. . . . The firm that gave Bayh the most money of all: Goldman Sachs.read more

The banks lobbied Washington so they could write the rules that got us into this crisis. And now they are lobbying Washington to write the rules so they can get us into the next crisis.read more

Obama is making many of the biggest and most expensive governing decisions behind closed doors.read more

"Change has not come fast enough," President Obama acknowledged in his State of the Union address--especially for Americans who are losing their jobs and struggling through the long recession.read more

The polls haven't closed yet, but the finger-pointing has begun.read more

One key difference between the modern-day Pecora Commission and the original is that the current commission lacks a Pecora.read more

"We have used our taxpayer dollars not only to subsidize these banks but also to subsidize the creditors of those banks."read more

Hume's comment could be seen as a way of selling indulgences: join the Christian Right and you, too, can pursue your wild sexual escapades.read more

It's hard to imagine a sizable, progressive campaign to take down Russ Feingold and Bernie Sanders for supporting the so-so health care bill.read more

Obama’s rhetoric about the banks was all illusion. “Frosty” is fine with Wall Street so long as Washington declines to interfere with an unregulated market that wrecks the economy.read more

The importance of this debate may be that it galvanizes more women to stand up to elected officials like Stupak who want to interfere with their health care and dictate what services they can and cannot get because of the moral sensitivities of certain vocal constituents.read more