Sally Kohn

  • Published Forgetting Reagan (Blog entry)
    September 13, 2011 - 1:23pm

    Sally Kohn will be a featured speaker at Take Back the American Dream, convening in Washington from Oct. 3 to 5. The following was originally published at The American Prospect.

  • Published Profit on Wall Street, Recession on Main Street (Blog entry)
    August 26, 2011 - 2:47pm

    Sally Kohn will be a featured speaker at the Oct. 3-5 Take Back the American Dream conference. Click here to register.

    In the past few weeks alone, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Cisco Systems and Borders have all announced massive layoffs. Borders is closing its retail stores, auctioning off its holdings and letting go 10,000 employees as, due to online competition, the company is no longer profitable and filed for bankruptcy earlier this year. In contrast, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and Cisco Systems have all posted profits in the last few quarters – in some cases, record highs. Alhough according to the latest data, 9.1% of Americans are unemployed, major US corporations are slashing jobs not out of necessity but out of greed. The revived focus in Washington on creating jobs may be pointless if corporate America no longer needs workers.

  • Shared 15,000 Progressive Activists in Detroit: Why No Media or Respect? (Progressive Opinion)
    June 28, 2010 - 5:13pm

    It’s not surprising that the mainstream media is paying little attention to the 15,000-plus community organizers and progressive activists gathered in Detroit, Michigan this week for the second United States Social Forum. But why is it that the Tea Party—the right-wing edge of the conservative political sphere—exerts a gravitational pull on the Republican party and the conservative mainstream while the leaders and groups of the United States Social Forum, representing the left of the liberal mainstream, are disregarded as marginal and irrelevant—that is, if they’re regarded at all?

  • Published Death Bonds: Watch Big Banks Make A Killing (Literally) (Blog entry)
    September 22, 2009 - 4:54pm

    You'd think some profiteering schemes are too sick even for Wall Street. But think again.

    Wall Street is hoping that health care reform fails so not only will insurance company profits and salaries rise but big banks can get in on the business.

  • Published Death Bonds: Wall Street + Insurance Co. Scam to Kill People, Reap Profits (Blog entry)
    September 8, 2009 - 8:45am

    Any remaining doubt that a for-profit, private monopoly of our nation's health care system is a dangerous idea should be removed by the recent news that Wall Street plans to reap profits from people not living to collect their life insurance policies.

    False accusations of plans for government "death panels" was ironic enough, given that private insurance companies have long entrenched real

  • Published What's In It For Jim? (Blog entry)
    August 12, 2009 - 7:37am

    The insurance industry-planted extremists who have been trying to disrupt health care reform should talk to Jim from St. James, Missouri. Jim's not a paid activist. He's not a spin doctor. He's just a hard-working guy from middle America. And Jim is exactly the kind of person that health insurance reform will help.

  • Published The Bloody Truth Behind Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric (Blog entry)
    June 17, 2009 - 2:16pm

    A week after a white supremacist attacked the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, and on the day that three teenagers are being sentenced in Shenandoa

  • Published Health Care From Your Faucet? (Blog entry)
    June 11, 2009 - 4:51pm

    What do health care reform and drinking water have in common? Just as we spend more than any nation in the developed world on health care, Americans spend over $15 billion a year on bottled water.

    Now bottled water may be expensive and plastic bottles may be bad for our general, planetary health.

  • Published How Japan's Other Hybrid Can Save American Jobs (Blog entry)
    March 31, 2009 - 12:27am


    Co-written with Sanford M. Jacoby. Original version printed Sun, Mar 29 in Seattle Times: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008936833_opinb29jacoby.html?syndication=rss

    Today, President Obama announced that the United States government is effectively taking over General Motors and Chrysler and considering bankruptcy.

  • Published Blue Dogs? Bring On The Purple Cats! (Blog entry)
    March 19, 2009 - 9:23am

    Am I the only one frustrated that now that we finally have a President who looks out for the greater good of average Americans, his own party won’t join the fight to take the country back from special interests?