David Sirota

David Sirota is a senior editor at In These Times and author of the bestselling books The Uprising and Hostile Takeover. He hosts the morning show on AM760 in Colorado and blogs at OpenLeft.com. E-mail him at ds@davidsirota.com.

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,, 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.

Articles by David Sirota

• The Case for Choosing Life
  February 5, 2010
• Our Addiction to Disaster Porn
  January 30, 2010
• Democratic Corporatism Brings Reagan Back from the Grave
  January 23, 2010
• Right Is Not Center, But 2010 Resembles 1984
  January 15, 2010
• Why Year One Matters
  January 4, 2010
• The Decade's Top Ten Quotations
  January 1, 2010
• Hope Is Not Change
  December 28, 2009
• What Happens When We Can't Trust the Verifiers?
  December 25, 2009
• The 'Candidate vs. President' Canard
  December 19, 2009
• Political Moral Hazard
  December 12, 2009
• Colbert Conservatism
  November 26, 2009
• Intelligentsia Against Intelligence
  November 20, 2009
• Where Are the Real Deficit Hawks?
  November 14, 2009
• We Are What We Trade and How We Trade It
  November 7, 2009
• TARP on Steroids
  October 31, 2009
• A Party With No Punch
  October 26, 2009
• A Tale of Two Supermen
  October 24, 2009
• Say It Ain't Snowe
  October 17, 2009
• The Zombie Zeitgeist
  October 10, 2009
• Mad Men 2.0
  October 5, 2009
• Who Are 'The Deciders'?
  October 3, 2009
• Country Club Etiquette Trumps Legislative Results
  September 26, 2009
• Selective Deficit Disorder
  September 19, 2009
• We've Seen This Trigger Before
  September 12, 2009
• A Party Is Not a Movement
  September 5, 2009
• The Science Fiction of Military Marketing
  August 28, 2009
• Freedom from Fear
  August 21, 2009
• Don't You Forget About Him
  August 16, 2009
• Healthcare's 13 Tyrants
  August 14, 2009
• The Me-First, Screw-Everyone-Else Crowd
  August 8, 2009
• The Attack of the 1-Percenters
  July 25, 2009
• China Is Here
  July 18, 2009
• Getting Off the Grid
  June 26, 2009
• Daring to Dream
  June 20, 2009
• All Politics, And Change, Is Still Local
  June 13, 2009
• Whither the Sacred Campaign Promise?
  June 5, 2009
• Democracy Needs a Bailout
  May 29, 2009
• Teabags vs. Douchebags
  May 27, 2009
• The House That Taxpayers Built
  May 22, 2009
• Healthcare’s Enigma-In-Chief
  May 15, 2009
• Piggish Capitalism
  May 8, 2009
• With Their Magic Bullet, Dems Have No More Excuses
  May 1, 2009
• ‘Reform’ To Nowhere
  April 27, 2009
• Newsflash: Populism Is Popular
  April 24, 2009
• Columbine Questions We Still Don’t Ponder
  April 17, 2009
• The Best Investment Money Can Buy!
  April 10, 2009
• This Is the Truth on Drugs…Any Questions?
  April 3, 2009
• From Newspaper to Commercial Paper
  March 27, 2009
• A Government of Men, Not Laws
  March 20, 2009
• Measuring Electoral Success
  March 17, 2009
• Road Tripping Through Whitopia
  March 11, 2009
• The A Word
  March 6, 2009
• Past the Point of No Return
  February 20, 2009
• Fake Outrage Junkies
  February 13, 2009
• Team of Zombies
  February 6, 2009
• Making Him Do It
  January 30, 2009
• The Difference Between Hope and Change
  January 23, 2009
• That Old Saying in Tennessee
  January 16, 2009
• Mind the Gap
  January 9, 2009
• Economic Death and Millionaire Taxes
  December 27, 2008
• We Told You So
  December 12, 2008
• Those Other Elections
  December 5, 2008
• Tuning Out the Braindead Megaphone
  November 21, 2008
• Mandate for Change
  November 19, 2008
• Knowing When To Walk Away
  November 14, 2008
• McCain Banking on a Confederacy of Dunces
  October 24, 2008
• Signs of an Earthquake in Oregon
  October 17, 2008
• Remembering Those Other American Dreams
  October 15, 2008
• Crony Communist or Businessman?
  October 10, 2008
• Saying “No Deal” to This New Deal
  October 3, 2008
• Turning a Wall Street Giveaway Into a Rescue for All Americans
  October 1, 2008
• Back in the U.S.S.R.
  September 26, 2008
• The $700 Billion Questions
  September 22, 2008
• No Time For A Minimalist
  September 19, 2008
• 22 to Know
  September 18, 2008
• Country First
  September 12, 2008
• Making Goliath Walk
  September 9, 2008
• An Unconventional Convention
  August 29, 2008
• Will Obama Wave Bayh Bye to the White House?
  August 15, 2008
• A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to Denver
  August 8, 2008
• Sanity From The Silver Screen
  August 1, 2008
• Six Little Words To Fix America's Wage Crisis
  July 25, 2008
• 'Centrists' Running the Asylum
  July 18, 2008
• Anywhere Becomes Everywhere
  July 11, 2008
• 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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