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Nick Penniman
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Nick Penniman is the executive director of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund. Previous to starting the Fund, he founded the American News Project, an online video muckraking operation. He has also served as the Washington Director of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy (a foundation headed by Bill Moyers), the publisher of The Washington Monthly, the editor of TomPaine.com, the program director of the Campaign for America's Future, and associate editor of the American Prospect magazine. He has served on multiple nonprofit boards, including the Homeless Empowerment Project and the Roosevelt Institution. He graduated from St. Lawrence University with a degree in philosophy. He grew up in St. Louis and currently lives in Maryland with his wife and three children.

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A Day for Democracy's Faithful

4 Comments | Posted January 20, 2009 | 08:09 PM (EST)

I don't believe in a god, but I believe in something equally as improbable and audacious. No, not Obama. American democracy.

There is no higher power, but we have our common power. No heaven, but the rich Earth. And the promise of America.

This is my faith. It saves me,...

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Deer Hunting With Democrats

6 Comments | Posted October 30, 2008 | 04:24 PM (EST)

Much has been surmised about white working-class voters in this election. After the Democratic primaries, in which lower-income whites broke heavily for Hillary, the conventional wisdom in DC was that many of those folks would migrate to McCain. And, surely, some did. But Obama never gave up on them, campaigning...

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