David Sirota

David Sirota is a senior editor at In These Times and a bestselling author whose newest book, “The Uprising,” was released in May 2008. He is a fellow at the Campaign for America’s Future and a board member of the Progressive States Network — both nonpartisan organizations. His blog is at www.credoaction.com/sirota.

David Sirota, who graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in 1998, is at the center of the national debate about the future of the Democratic Party. As a political strategist, Sirota has helped populist Democrats win elections in some of the most conservative parts of America. As a writer, he has worked to expose how our government has been corrupted by Big Money.

Sirota has served as the press secretary for Independent Rep. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, as the spokesman for the U.S. House Appropriations Committee Democrats, and as a fellow at the Center for American Progress. He most recently served as a senior strategist helping Brian Schweitzer become Montana’s first Democratic governor in sixteen years. In addition to serving as a senior editor at In These Times, Sirota is a regular contributor to The Nation and The American Prospect, the blogger for Working Assets, a twice-weekly guest on “The Al Franken Show,” and the co-chairperson of the Progressive Legislative Action Network. He has been a guest on, among others, National Public Radio, CNN, MSNBC and the Colbert Report. Additionally, his work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun, and the Charlotte Observer. Sirota lives in Helena, Montana, with his wife Emily.

Articles by David Sirota

• The Free Trade Heretic
  July 4, 2008
• This Summer's Trilogy of Truth
  June 27, 2008
• Countering Race With Class
  June 20, 2008
• An Anti-Clinton For VP
  June 13, 2008
• The Populist Uprising
  June 6, 2008
• The Lamont Lesson
  May 30, 2008
• Labor and Delivery
  May 28, 2008
• Why Democrats Won’t Stop the War
  May 26, 2008
• A Different Kind of Democracy
  May 23, 2008
• Toward A New Washington Consensus
  May 16, 2008
• Acknowledging the Race Chasm
  May 9, 2008
• The Plague of Potomac Fever
  May 2, 2008
• Matthews Vs. McNulty
  April 25, 2008
• The Ludlow Legacy At Home
  April 18, 2008
• Confessions of an Economic Hitman
  April 4, 2008
• The Upside of Nationalism
  April 4, 2008
• The Clinton Firewall
  March 31, 2008
• Is Wright Right About Racism?
  March 28, 2008
• New Housing Crisis, Old Isms
  March 21, 2008
• Remembering What Nixon Learned
  March 14, 2008
• Hope in the Time of NAFTA
  March 7, 2008
• The New Permanent Campaign
  February 29, 2008
• A Trade Transformation
  February 22, 2008
• It's Also the Congress, Stupid
  February 20, 2008
• The Candidate of the Permanent Will
  February 15, 2008
• The Democrats' Class War
  February 8, 2008
• Rocky Mountain Realities
  February 1, 2008
• The Stimulus Swindle
  January 25, 2008
• Digging in the Right Place
  January 18, 2008
• Stay Classy, Huckabee
  January 11, 2008
• Kissing up to K Street
  July 2, 2007
• Democracy Haters
  March 27, 2007
• Embracing Populism
  November 28, 2006
• Learning From Lamont
  November 10, 2006
• Dueling Democrats
  October 30, 2006
• The Prairie Populist: Byron Dorgan
  September 13, 2006
• Legislating Under the Influence
  July 10, 2006
• Careless Industry
  May 1, 2006
• The Seinfeld Strategy
  April 14, 2006
• A Primary Concern
  April 10, 2006
• Will the Dems Step Up in the New Year?
  December 23, 2005
• This Is the Race
  November 21, 2005
• Partisan War Syndrome
  October 17, 2005
• Hurricanes Rain on Bushs Tax Cut Parade
  September 27, 2005
• Precipitating Disasters: A Timeline
  September 27, 2005
• Fear, Loathing and the GOP
  April 18, 2005
• Green + Red = Blue
  December 14, 2004
• You Call This a Democracy?
  September 28, 2004
• When Left is Right
  July 14, 2004
• When Ignorance Isnt Bliss
  June 8, 2004
• Being Dick Cheney
  May 27, 2004
• Its the Stupidity, Stupid
  April 21, 2004

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