Scott Brown is living the dream and New England politics are still adjusting to the new reality. The same swing voters who fueled the blue tide that crested over Connecticut and New Hampshire in response to Bush now view their own creation as a disastrous flood, and are uprooting their...

Larry Summers and Tim Geithner deserve our gratitude. If you have a job, it may very well have been saved by abilities and experience specific only to them. According to most economists, we could very well be living in the post-apocalyptic chaos of a full-blown global depression if the right...

Progressive cynicism is, unfortunately, not an oxymoron.

My previous post that listed five reasons why a confrontation with the president won't achieve progressive goals received a heavy battery of comments. Of those who disagreed - and there were lots - two basic arguments emerged.

One, from the Nader school,...

CommonDreams.org is among progressive groups calling for a confrontation with President Obama. Five reasons why we should think twice.

CommonDreams.org, the prominent progressive news and opinion website, recently sent an email fundraising appeal with the subject, "It's time for a confrontation." Signed by Executive Director Craig Brown, it begins,...