How Progressives Can Move Obama to the Left
I'm positive that Obama thinks that he's doing his best to bring about as much change as he can within the limits of this system. But is he a true progressive or a corporatist sell out?
I'm positive that Obama thinks that he's doing his best to bring about as much change as he can within the limits of this system. But is he a true progressive or a corporatist sell out?
New York Times | BRIAN STELTER | Posted 11.21.2009 | Media
Glenn Beck, the popular and outspoken Fox News host, says he wants to go beyond broadcasting his opinions and start rallying his political base -- for...
Hannah Fisher | Posted 11.17.2009 | World
Political speeches in Britain now contain little more than empty repetition, all substance is lacking. The British public has lost respect and will not start listening until a new breed of politician arises.
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
No matter what healthcare bill passes, it is not going to remain static. It is going to be revisited again and again over the next few decades. That's how lawmaking works.
Rob Kall | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Limbaugh, Beck and Palin tap the energy and emotions of the masses and flame their biases and bigotry. The web and the media have changed the rules. The grassroots are connected like never before.
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
I think as people continue to see so much of politics as usual in this town -- partisan bickering and big money buying votes -- they are increasingly likely to vote against whatever represents the old politics for them.
Tim Ellis | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
Is conservatism good for America? The answer depends largely on what you mean by conservatism -- and what you mean by "good for America."
Cenk Uygur | Posted 10.23.2009 | Media
Does anyone really believe that ACORN is the top story? Every day? Or is it possible that is Fox's obvious, ham-handed way of attacking the president daily? I can't believe we're having this argument.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 11.29.2009 | Media
Roger Ailes understands what other TV executives miss. He remembers that P.T. Barnum built his business around high-wire acts and circus freaks.
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
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.
Edward Murray | Posted 11.10.2009 | Comedy
Average Conservative Blogger responds to readers' questions.
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
News cycles thrive on controversy and the extreme, so those elements of our country are continuing to get more and more airtime.
Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
Rev. Watkins, what you and your ilk are doing is the antithesis of Christianity and Christ's teachings.
Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
After attending the Sestak-Toomey debate in Allentown this week I struck up a conversation about medical malpractice with one of the people who questioned the two senate candidates during the forum.
Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 10.16.2009 | Home
The Gospel reading at Kennedy's funeral was a sharp stick in the eye of the Congresspeople sitting in the pews.
Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
We need the government to create the environment where small business can make a buck, just like Adam Smith would have wanted it.
Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
I just don't get it. You get a guy in the White House who is offering business the biggest tax break of our lifetimes, and he gets snubbed by every right-winger.
Aemilia Scott | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics
In the films, Batman is all about doing the dirty work that the public needs, but doesn't necessarily want. Sound familiar?
Robin Lakoff | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics
Liberals have devised ways to help the economically impoverished. Now we have to figure out what to do about the discursively impoverished.
Steve Garcia | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
If Puerto Rico becomes a state it would add 2 senators and 7 representatives to Congress; we can expect these members to come from the conservatives that hold office in the "state" legislature.
David Horton | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
As a biologist I tend to observe the behavior of conservatives in the way that I would observe bird behavior, or the behavior of, say, skunks.
Jim Wallis | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
In the story of creation in Genesis we see that the image of God is best reflected not through sameness, but through the breadth that exists within the grand diversity of creation.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 07.31.2009 | Media
About an hour's drive from where I live, a miserable 60-year old man by the name of Donnie Baker murdered two Chilean college students and wounded fiv...
Jim Selman | Posted 07.23.2009 | Living
Last week was not a good week for the planet and I've been taking it personally.
Politico | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics
The Club for Growth, the bane of Republican moderates, has taken another shot at Florida GOP Gov. Charlie Crist, this time nominating him for its Comr...
Cenk Uygur | Posted 12.24.2009 | Politics