Sally Kohn, Director of the Movement Vision Lab at the Center for Community Change and Marshall Ganz, a lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government discuss lessons for organizers from the Obama campaign as well as the challenges and opportunities grassroots activists face when a candidate

Tea parties. They're everywhere. Or at least you'd think they are if you turned on your TV this week. But what does the coverage--FOX news and otherwise--tell us about the media's interests? And are we getting any smarter when it comes to analyzing the financial crisis? Many would say no. And the media aren't exactly helping.

Tea parties. They're everywhere. Or at least you'd think they are if you turned on your TV this week. But what does the coverage--FOX news and otherwise--tell us about the media's interests? And are we getting any smarter when it comes to analyzing the financial crisis? Many would say no. And the media aren't exactly helping.

The presidential campaign had more than a smattering of it. The economic crisis is breeding lots more. Crazy talk comparing Barack Obama to Hitler went mainstream April 15th. It's nasty and it could get worse. But there is something Barack Obama could do about it.

Tax day becomes protest day but is it populism or a top down GOP strategy? Arun Gupta editor and writer for the Indypendent and Zephyr Rain Teachout a visiting assistant professor at Duke Law School on opposition to Obama’s budget and tax policies and why populist pressure is missing the mark.

Eyal Press, Marjorie Fine of the Center for Community Change, Talia Schank of Community Voices Heard, and Katherine Acey of the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice discuss the fate of nonprofits in a world of falling profits.

More than 200 police officers carried out a pre-emptive raid in England early on Monday, arresting 114 people thought to be preparing a protest at the Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottinghamshire. On Tuesday it emerged that while those detainees were being held, officers raided homes around the UK, seizing computer equipment and mobile phone records.

Tax day becomes protest day but is it populism or a top down GOP strategy? Arun Gupta and Zephyr Rain Teachout on opposition to Obama’s budget and tax policies and why populist pressure is missing the mark. Environmental activists arrested in England. And the fate of nonprofits. Can they weather the financial storm?

2008 was a rough year for many of us - unemployment skyrocketed, millions of homes were foreclosed upon, businesses around the nation shuttered. But for that beleagured wealthy minority -- the CEOs? Not so much.

By Lindsay Beyerstein Of all the hurdles facing healthcare reform in 2009, the U.S. Senate is arguably the most formidable. But the prospects for passing a healthcare bill this year have brightened noticeably over the past few days, thanks to a senate seat pickup in Minnesota, solidifying support for the budget reconciliation strategy, and tentative overtures towards bipartisanship from key Republicans.