Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Meanwhile, the corporate lobbies stay right where they are, outlasting all the populist hysteria.
Eric AltermanLiberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right's aura of God-given self-confidence.
Eric AltermanCertainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.
Eric AltermanThe ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.
Eric Alterman