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Tom Friedman Explains Causes Of America's 'Sub-Optimal Solutions' (VIDEO)

Posted 11.22.2009 | Media


New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman is worried that America is producing "sub-optimal solutions" to big problems like global warming, an educa...

FBI Watch List Includes 400,000 People

Washington Post | Walter Pincus | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics


During a 12-month period ended in March this year, for example, the U.S. intelligence community suggested on a daily basis that 1,600 people qualified...

Goodbye/Hello 14 "Burning The Ships "

Patt Cottingham | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics


Patt Cottingham

In 1519 the Spanish Conquistador Hernando Cortez anchored his 11 ships off the Yucatan Peninsula. Thousands of miles of ocean separated him from Spa...

What!? Racism Still in America?

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics


Jim Wallis

I see racial sub-texts in the intensity of the attacks on Obama -- not in the disagreements per se, but in the viciousness of the rhetoric.

President Obama, my Response to Your Fourth of July Letter

Linda Milazzo | Posted 08.04.2009 | Politics


Linda Milazzo

I request that the President provide those who participate in our democracy every protection granted by our Constitution to challenge those policies with which we disagree.

Your Government Needs You

Michael Markarian | Posted 02.28.2009 | Politics


Michael Markarian

Thousands of citizens across the country will participate in 2009 Humane Lobby Day, and will ask their state legislators to support bills dealing with important animal-related policy reforms.

All Hope is Local: Quit Whining and Run for Office

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics


Allison Kilkenny

Real change will begin Nov. 5th, and positive change will only occur if Progressives begin to shape politics first locally, and then spread outward to create national reform.

Channel This Election Fervor Into Helping the Country

Brian Ross | Posted 11.29.2008 | Home


Brian Ross

When the dust settles Tuesday, the lunatic fringe on both sides of the aisle will crawl back into their burrows, and the rest of us will be left to repair the damage done by the Bush Administration.

Could You Pass The New Citizenship Test?

The New York Times | Julia Preston | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Patrick Henry and Francis Scott Key are out, but Susan B. Anthony and Nancy Pelosi are in. The White House was cut, but New York and Sept. 11 made the...