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How Can Anti-Choice Lawmakers Oppose Public Policies That Would Reduce Abortion?

M. Tracey Brooks | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
M. Tracey Brooks

Anti-choice elected officials, who work against keeping abortion safe, legal and accessible, are often the same lawmakers who vote down legislation that is critical to strengthening society.

A Nation of Pilot Projects?

Mike Signer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Mike Signer

On cutting-edge infrastructure issues such as solar, will we continue to be a nation of pilot projects? Or will we take any quantum leaps and achieve actual national policy?

If You Feed Them They Breed -- And Other Dehumanizing Conservative Idiocy We Should Ignore

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Dave Johnson

Conservatives are throwing out every argument against helping the economy to see if any of them stick. The latest nonsense they are spreading is that helping the unemployed keeps them from finding jobs.

In The Public Interest: Fixing Our "Shiny New Toys"

Phineas Baxandall | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Phineas Baxandall

Every parent knows this one - you walk into a room and see your child playing carelessly with a new toy. Invariably, you warn: "If you break that, I'm...

Enlisting Goldman in Our Recovery

Michael Likosky | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Michael Likosky

We must modernize the rules governing our financial institutions swiftly so that we can turn to a more pressing matter - how to move capital into our ...

Lions, Cheetahs and More: The Potential for Doing Business in Africa

Vijaya Ramachandran | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Vijaya Ramachandran

Throughout Africa, government policies to improve macroeconomic conditions, end conflict, and create better business environments have had a significant impact in the region.

Want a Dream Job? Easy - Just Personalize Your Own...

Gil Laroya | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Gil Laroya

With the current downturn in the world economy, we all find ourselves redefining what we consider a dream job. What used to be easy pickin's, is now s...

DK Matai | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
DK Matai

Editor's Note: This post has been removed from the Huffington Post....

Your Best Investment

Tim Ellis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Tim Ellis

Congratulations! Today is your opportunity to make one of the most important and meaningful investments available. We are confident that this prospec...

Conservatives Call For Massive Deficits To Create JOBS

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Dave Johnson

This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture. I am a Fellow with CAF. Saying that the Obama "sti...

The Power of Networks: Effecting Greater Impact in the Social Change Movement

Ellen Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Ellen Friedman

At a recent conference, activists discussed how the future of social change movement rests in how we network our individual efforts with one another to create more coordinated and unified action.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood: "We've Made Some Progress, But We Need to Do More"

Cynthia Gordy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Cynthia Gordy

Since signing the Recovery Act last year, President Barack Obama has touted the law's funding for transportation and infrastructure as an efficient wa...

Ten Million Jobs Needed - Ten Million Jobs That Need Doing

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Dave Johnson

It's called the infrastructure deficit. Right around 1981 we stopped improving the country's infrastructure and even started to defer maintaining it. We started "living off the seed corn." Now it is all catching up to us.

Reagan Revolution Home To Roost: America Is Crumbling

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Dave Johnson

The money that should have been invested in maintaining and modernizing our infrastructure instead has gone to a few wealthy people at the top of the food chain. And now we're collectively crumbling.

Stimulus Shifts To Reverse -- Where Is The Congress?

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Dave Johnson

This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture. I am a Fellow with CAF. The stimulus is running ou...

The Green They Steal, the Greed They Wear ...a St. Patrick's Day Lamentation

Michael Moore | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Michael Moore

Wall Street owns "our" Congress lock, stock and big barrel o' campaign cash. What we call the "democratic process" is mostly a sham, pretty words that get repeated in the hopes we will all still fall for it.

Mass Transit and a Public Works Pilgrimage to Hoover Dam

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Joel Epstein

Hoover Dam, transportation and Los Angeles -- for me it's all about well conceived infrastructure and a vision of what is possible.

Govt Spending: JOBS Today, Payoffs For Years To Come

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Dave Johnson

This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture as part of the Making It In America project. I am a ...

Village Green: Constructing a City Around the Concept of Happiness

F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
F. Kaid Benfield

“With our limited resources, we have to invent other ways to measure success. This might mean that all kids have access to sports facilit...

Progressives and the Deficit

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Robert Creamer

It would be easy for progressives -- even with the best of intentions -- to fumble the growing debate on the federal deficit. Here are six rules for how to approach the issue in the months ahead.

Recovery Act in Action: Tracking the Ripples

Jared Bernstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Jared Bernstein

Thanks to the Recovery Act, there are hundreds of thousands of teachers in classrooms, police on the beat, construction workers fixing our infrastructure, engineers building the the smart grid, and much more.

Cost Of Tax Cuts Catching Up To Us

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Dave Johnson

The consequences of decades of cutbacks are arriving. The rest of the world leaps ahead of us. It's not going to get any better until we start asking corporations and the wealthy to pitch in and pay back

Rebuilding America From Ore to Assembly

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Joel Epstein

We need to start thinking and acting differently if we want to extricate ourselves from the malaise that ails us. A public works project here in LA is an excellent start.

Friedman on Competitiveness: Identifies Problem, Offers Exactly Wrong Solution

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Dave Johnson

America's habit of deferring maintenance on its infrastructure goes beyond crumbling buildings and slow trains -- in the long term, we'll fall behind the rest of the world in our ability to compete economically.

Preaching to the Choir: Metro and 30/10 Revisited

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Joel Epstein

With a tip of my Metro cap to Bob Dylan for his special telling of the sacrifice of Isaac, over the weekend I took a virtual drive out on Highway 61. ...