Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

Reagan promised everyone a seven-course dinner. Ours turned out to be a possum and a six-pack.

America's drug war is so stupid that if you pay close attention to just how stupid it is -- it'll drive you to use drugs.

Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses.

The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

Banks don't commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won't ever stop if they don't have to pay for their crimes.

You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.