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Amanda Terkel

Progressives Turn Up Heat On Mark Zuckerberg

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.16.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Progressive groups are turning up the heat on Mark Zuckerberg's immigration group FWD.us, calling on its backers to pull out in order to...

Amanda Terkel

Progressive Groups Pull Facebook Ads In Protest Of Mark Zuckerberg's Political Strategy

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.07.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A coalition of progressive groups is pulling its ads from Facebook in protest over political positions taken by the organization started...

Michael McAuliff

Progressives Slam Obama Social Security Cut Plan, Threaten Primaries

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 04.08.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Progressive-leaning groups reacted quickly and angrily to news that President Barack Obama is proposing cuts to Social Security, going s...

Lucia Graves

Environmentalists Don't Know What To Do About Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 03.27.2013 | Green

President Obama may approve the controversial Keystone XL pipeline later this year, but that hasn't stopped him from accepting money from activists lo...

Joy Resmovits

Charter School Report Casts Doubt On Obama Education Policy

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 02.01.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- When it comes to charter schools, the bad ones stay bad and the good ones stay good, according to a report on charter school growth rele...

Amanda Terkel

Gun Control Advocates Protest At The NRA's Offices

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 12.17.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Gun control advocates marched to the National Rifle Association's Capitol Hill office on Monday, in an effort to pressure the powerful o...

CREDO's Study of Charter Schools in NJ Leaves Many Unanswered Questions

Julia Sass Rubin, Ph.D. | Posted 12.10.2012 | Home
Julia Sass Rubin, Ph.D.

How can an institution that claims to be academically objective put out a press release that is so misleading about the study's findings?

Sarah Bufkin

Women Cited By Super PAC As Key To Allen West's Defeat

HuffingtonPost.com | Sarah Bufkin | Posted 12.03.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Since his defeat to a 29-year-old political newcomer, the media and political strategists have been speculating as to what happened to R...

Joy Resmovits

New Evidence On Charter Schools

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 11.27.2012 | Home

Students in New Jersey charter schools perform better on average than those same students would in traditional public schools, according to a highly a...

Saki Knafo

Progressive Group Punks Republican Congressman

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 10.27.2012 | Politics

Jeff Wyly, campaign manager for GOP Rep. Dan Lungren's re-election in the Sacramento region of California, sent an email to supporters Friday with wha...

Saki Knafo

The Super PAC For People Who Hate Super PACS

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 10.22.2012 | Politics

Two years ago, the Supreme Court's Citizen United ruling and birth of the super PAC helped the Tea Party Republicans take over Congress. This year, a ...

A Progressive Corporation and Its Campaign to Take Down 10 Tea Party House Members

Pearl Korn | Posted 09.13.2012 | Politics
Pearl Korn

While the conventions and the two men who would be president have been uppermost in our minds for the past two weeks, we should not lose sight of other critical races going on across the country, in particular those in the House of Representatives.

Ryan Grim

Russ Feingold Challenges Pelosi

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.03.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A leading national progressive figure is taking a rare step on Thursday, challenging House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on ...

Ryan Grim

Nancy Pelosi Says She'd Back Simpson-Bowles Plan

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.27.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Two progressive organizations have found themselves in the unusual position of being on the opposite side of House Democratic Leader Nan...

Ryan Grim

Senior Advocates To AARP: 'Americans Don't Want Cuts To Social Security'

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 03.17.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Two separate campaigns have been launched to pressure AARP to stand firm against cuts in Social Security and Medicare benefits. The camp...

Credo: Community Without Conformity

Elizabeth Cunningham | Posted 10.24.2011 | Religion
Elizabeth Cunningham

I still believe in the communion of potluck meals... in the importance of a community's witness and support when you celebrate or mourn. But I question whether we must have uniformity of belief in order to minister to each other.

Will Guzzardi

Charters Ask CPS For More Funding: Will They Get It, And Should They?

HuffingtonPost.com | Will Guzzardi | Posted 10.01.2011 | Chicago

There's a debate smoldering, just out of the media spotlight, behind the scenes of Chicago public policy. It's one that pits some of the city's wealth...

AT&T -- Not My Credo

Wendy Block | Posted 09.27.2011 | Politics
Wendy Block

When I hear that AT&T and Verizon are key players with other multinationals and Republican legislators in a so-far obscure group that advances corporate interests and undermines ours, my thoughts turn...shall we say, vehement.

Amanda Terkel

Online Campaign Targets Employees Of Law Firm Fighting Same-Sex Marriage

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 06.22.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A progressive organization is targeting employees at the law firm King & Spalding with an online campaign aimed at preventing House Spea...

Next Sunday: Protest at Right-Wing Billionaires' Secret Summit near Palm Springs

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Peter Dreier

A broad coalition of consumer, community, labor, environmental, student, civil liberties, and faith-based groups are sponsoring a rally in Rancho Mira...

Victory -- ABC News Drops Andrew Breitbart

James Rucker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
James Rucker

ABC News just announced that they've rescinded their invitation for Andrew Breitbart to be part of their election night coverage. The network had already said Breitbart won't be appearing on the air; now they've told him he's not welcome to appear online either.

Google Goes "Evil"

Adam Green | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Adam Green

Following a conference call with Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg I can now say that Google, a company that I've long admired and currently hold thousands of dollars of stock in, just "went evil."

Gen. Petraeus Goes to War, Mrs. Petraeus Loses to Car Salesman in Congress

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Richard (RJ) Eskow

The argument that "car dealers had nothing to do with the economic crisis" doesn't wash. Reform is designed to prevent the next crisis as much as it is to avoid a repeat of the last one.

Mechanical Morons Unite!

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Michael Sigman

Penetrating the packaging of modern products has precipitated many an emergency-room visit.

"No More Secrecy": Open The Wall Street Negotiations and Empower Voters

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Richard (RJ) Eskow

The White House should use its voice and its influence to push for full transparency in financial reform so that we can watch the lobbying and backroom deals that usually happen behind closed doors.