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DLC: The New Black! The Second Coming of Expansion Packs

Theodore Bergquist | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media


Theodore Bergquist

There's been a lot of talk about downloadable content for video games recently. There is no doubt that we are in the midst of a significant, fast growing trend here.

Obama's Best Frenemy

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics


Glenn Hurowitz

Obama put his persuasive power on hold while he got sucked into an insider negotiation with Congressional centrists -- and has been unable to make a morally compelling case for his agenda.

Al From and the Founding of Today's Majority Democratic Party

Lanny Davis | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics


Lanny Davis

Mr. Clinton turned to Mr. From and said: "I would never have become president if it wasn't for you."

Will Obama's Presidency End the Progressive Movement?

Rupert Russell | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics


Rupert Russell

Progressive billionaires, bloggers and grassroots activists mobilized less against a conservative president than a complicit mainstream media and a Bush-enabling Democratic establishment.

Happy Birthday James Carville. Now Retire.

Pete Cenedella | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics


Pete Cenedella

This is a birthday card to James Carville, on a day when polls show most Americans rejecting the negative campaigns and the spin-mongering that he has...

Business-Friendly Democratic Party Platform Reflects Interests Of Party Leaders

Brad Parker | Posted 10.11.2008 | Home


Brad Parker

In its successive drafts, the DNC party platform moved from progressive to liberal to conservative, offering clear evidence that the Democratic Leadership Council and its corporate cronies still control the Democratic Party apparatus.

The Men Who Made Me Love Hillary

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 09.09.2008 | Politics


Glenn Hurowitz

Unfortunately, the coterie of cautious centrists being touted by the Obama campaign as short-listers for the vice presidential nod are hardly up to the task of taking on the Republican attack machine.

87.5% of "Family" & DLC Affiliated Senate Democrats Voted Yes on FISA

Bruce Wilson | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics


Bruce Wilson

In early July 2008 Senate Republicans voted, with astounding conformity, in favor of the controversial electronic surveillance FISA bill update that w...

Obama Snubs Once-Powerful DLC

Politico | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics


Obama skipped the Democratic Leadership Council's "National Conversation" this weekend, even thought it was a block from Obama's Chicago campaign head...

Winning to Change or Changing to Win: Obama and the Progressive Dilemma

Marshall Grossman | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics


Marshall Grossman

Those of us who want real change must hold with one hand to the absolute necessity of an Obama victory and with the other to the possibility that pragmatic cynicism may be precisely not the road to achieve victory.

Hey Kids, Let's Fire Steny Hoyer

Marshall Grossman | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics


Marshall Grossman

So why, when in more and more districts, a vote to fund the war is a greater threat to incumbency than a vote to end it, do Hoyer and Pelosi still carry Bush's brackish water?

Obama's Win: How it Will Change the Leadership and Future of the Democratic Party

Rob Kall | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics


Rob Kall

The end Clintonian control of the Democratic Party will be a time with many opportunities for people and organizations to jump into the openings in the power hierarchy that is forming.