by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 22, 2011
Chris Hedges is a unique commentator on the challenges we face. His honesty is exceptional, his writing outstanding, and his perspective insistent. His two most recent books, Death of the Liberal Class and Empire of Illusion painfully brought into focus the...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 17, 2011
Brene Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past ten years studying vulnerability, courage, authenticity, and shame. She spent the first five years of her decade-long study focusing on shame and...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 16, 2011
Out this week is the newest edition of Whole Terrain, which is published by the Environmental Studies Department of Antioch University, New England. The entire issue focuses on the question of “scale.” While the phrase “think globally, act locally” may...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 15, 2011
Repercussions of the New Tax Law Would Leave 51 Million Americans Worse Off Most liberals and progressive Democrats were angered by the recent extension of the Bush tax cuts for America’s most wealthy. The excuse, offered by the White House and a good number of...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 11, 2011
For close to one-and-a-half hours this week, U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis sat patiently, and deeply engaged, as she listened to the challenges and opportunities that small business faces in a country dominated by the influence of large multinational...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 11, 2011
Yesterday, Matt Madia, a policy analyst at OMB Watch, Robert Weissman, president at Public Citizen, Peter Iwanowicz of the American Lung Association, and I participated in a media briefing to call attention to Representative Darrell Issa’s (R-CA) plans to hold...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 2, 2011
Fighting Democracy and Destroying America’s Economic Future This has been quite a year for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a year of blunders as well as successes. On balance, it appears the chamber is winning more often than it’s losing. My concern is who’s benefiting...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jan 31, 2011
I landed last week in a somewhat unusual place for someone like me: the annual meeting of the American Economics Association (AEA) in Denver. While en route to the event, I realized it was the first time that I can remember that I was attending a conference as a...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jan 28, 2011
This is the time of year when all the pundits, journalists, forecasters and owners of crystal globes issues their predictions. Mine are not very rosy! We’ll spend most of our time playing defense. The Republican majority in the House together with Obama and the...
