Below this short blog post, you will find a very lengthy description of what victories were won in the Wall Street reform bill, what compromises were made, and what defeats were suffered. It is, on balance, an argument for why we should pass the Wall Street reform bill, and a...

Much of my writing at MyDD has centered around a somewhat nebulous concept known as "the progressive movement." Sometimes, people mistake the progressive movement for the progressive netroots, even though the netroots are simply the subset of a much broader whole. Stretching beyond merely the progressive netroots or the progressive...