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From Media Blitz to Women's Conference: Has Maria Shriver Discerned a Watershed Moment?

Marianne Schnall | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Women, Valerie Jarrett, Activism, The Shriver Report, Working Mothers, A Woman's Nation, John Podesta, Gloria Steinem, Working Women, David Gregory, Obama, California Women's Conference, Maria Shriver, The Women's Conference, Family Leave, Living News

This week, California's First Lady will use the findings to engage participants in her annual conference on women.

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Shriver Report: Get Married, Have Kids, Then We'll Speak to Your Issues

Bella DePaulo | Posted 10.24.2009 | Living

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I'll highlight some remarkable and conventional-wisdom-defying findings from the report that were published but never headlined.

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HealthCare Focus: Quality versus Cost

Philip Lee Miller | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Frontline, World Health Organization, John Podesta, American Medical Association, Frank Luntz, Kaiser Permanente, Barack Obama, Charlie Rose, Health-Maintenance-Organizations, US News & World Report, Politics News

Service, expertise, and time. Those are the real challenges of the Healthcare debate.

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'Leaders and Laggards' Vanishes, a Good Development

Gerald Bracey | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: School Criticism, "Leaders and Laggards, Chamber of Commerce, John Podesta, Center for American Progress, Politics News

Two and a half years ago, The U. S. Chamber of Commerce and The Center for American Progress released a report on the condition of education in the U. S. It was the typical scare tactic, the educational form of 'Death Panels.'

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Reframe the Conversation: Health Care Insurance Reform is a Basic Human Rights Issue

Michelle Kraus | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senator Max Baucus, Political Pundits, Pundits, Meet-Up, President Obama, Media, Center for American Progress, Obama Health Care, Barack Obama, Human Rights, John Podesta, Former President Jimmy Carter, Health Care Reform, Media News, Health Care, Joan Blades, Move On, Obama Health Care Reform, Politics News

We can't just let the kooks rule the day or threaten violence with their words. Don't leave Speaker Pelosi fearing for political violence in the streets because we have not done our job.

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Poisonous Atmosphere Keeping Obama From Appointing Judges

The New Yorker | Jeffrey Toobin | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

The Obama Administration wanted to send a message with the President's first nomination to a federal court. "There was a real conscious decision to us...

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Health Care Is a Done Deal if You Read Between the Lines

Michael Wolff | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Wolff, Peter Baker, John Podesta, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Democratic Party, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Barack Obama, Politics News

If we assume that Podesta represents certain powers that be in the Democratic Party, are those powers writing off the president?

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Podesta: Obama Has To "Punch Through," Respond To Health Care Lies

Bloomberg | Roger Runningen | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Podesta Health Care Legislation, John Podesta Health Care, Podesta Health Care, Podesta, John Podesta, John Podesta Obama, Podesta Obama, Politics News

President Barack Obama must be more forceful in confronting health-care critics and take a clear position soon on crucial elements of the proposed leg...

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Holbrooke's Projects Long Occupation of Afghanistan, Pakistan

Tom Hayden | Posted 09.14.2009 | World

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Center for American Progress, John Podesta, Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, World News

The conference on Afghanistan with Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, sponsored by the Center for American Progress on August 12 turned into a disappointing press conference

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Clinton Consulted With Republicans, Neocons On Big Foreign Policy Speech

The Plum Line | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has consulted with a surprisingly diverse ideological bunch in the course of creating the major foreign policy spee...

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John Podesta Also Key Player In The Kitchen

Politico | Marian Burros | Posted 08.10.2009 | Style

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John Podesta may be best known as one of Washington's consummate inside players. But he is also his family's chief cook, grocery shopper and, apparent...

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Why Wal-Mart's Health Care Letter Matters

Doug Schoen | Posted 08.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Medicare, Service Employees International Union, Center for American Progress, John Podesta, Mike Duke, Wal-Mart, President Obama, Andy Stern, Business News

The company made famous for low prices just helped further solidify cost control as a requirement for entry in the health care debate.

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White House Staffers Concede "Frustration" On Gay Rights

Think Progress | Posted 07.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Defense of Marriage Act, Obama Gay Rights, Obama Doma, Obama Doma Defence, John Podesta, Lisa Brown, Ron Klain, White House Gay Rights, Politics News

Last night, Center for American Progress President and CEO John Podesta moderated a panel at the American Constitution Society convention that include...

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MoveOn Ad Calls For Bybee's Impeachment

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.31.2009 | Politics

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Weighing further into the debate over the use of torture by the Bush administration, MoveOn.org released a video on Thursday calling for the impeachme...

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Corporate Sponsors Won't Stand for Bill O'Reilly's Ambush Journalism

ZP Heller | Posted 04.26.2009 | Media

Read More: Fox News, Jennifer Moore, Think Progress, Bill O'Reilly, Amanda Terkel, Capital One, Rape, John Podesta, Media News

Last night, O'Reilly called Think Progress "insects," said Center for American Progress CEO John Podesta was "driving the hate industry," and that blogger Amanda Terkel was "harming a rape victim and her family."

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It's Not About Political Parties

T. Boone Pickens | Posted 04.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, T. Boone Pickens, Oil Imports, Hbo, Democrats, Democratic Party, National Clean Energy Summit, Whoopi Goldberg, Bill Maher, The-Pickens-Plan, Richard Nixon, John Podesta, 2008 Presidential Race, Oil, Harry Reid, Republican Party, Republicans, Green News

Ending our country's addiction to foreign oil isn't about being a Republican or about the Democratic Party. It's about America.

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Obama Faces Democratic Opposition To Social Security Cuts

New York Times | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics

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President Obama is eager to seek a bipartisan solution to ensure the long-term solvency of Social Security, people who have spoken with him say, but h...

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Solving the Global Food Crisis: The Case for a "Poverty Czar"

Bruce Friedrich | Posted 03.01.2009 | World

Read More: Oecd, Global Poverty, Robert Zoellick, Chatham House, John Podesta, Food Crisis, United Nations, World Bank, Richard Holbrooke, George MItchell, Jacques Diouf, Nicholas Kristof, Paul Krugman, Hillary Clinton, Oxfam, Barack Obama, Gates Foundation, India, Poverty, Biofuels, Afghanistan, Pakistan, US Aid, Haiti Poverty, Middle East, Us Aid to Pakistan, Haiti, Food, Hunger in the United States, China, World News

Addressing global poverty at its roots means recognizing that the most significant factors driving up food costs are the diversion of crops to biofuels and the growing demand for meat.

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Podesta Gives His First Interview

Think Progress | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

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Yesterday, ThinkProgress provided our readers an opportunity to ask John Podesta questions pertaining to his service on the Obama transition team. You...

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Scritti Politti: Inauguration Day, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Obama's Inauguration, John Yoo, John Podesta, Blackberry, Department of Justice, Robert Gibbs, Barack Obama, Media News

Inauguration Day! It's still quite young. But, however you choose to celebrate tonight, get home safe. And for everyone heading out to a hoity-toit...

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Podesta: Rivals In Obamaland "Iced Out"

Chicago Sun Times | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rahm Emanuel Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, John Podesta, Chicago, Obama Administration, Obama Transition, Barack Obama, Barack Obama Administration, Politics News

President-elect Barack Obama will be able to do things at "warp speed that no other president has been able to do in a long time," John Podesta, the c...

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Obama's Stimulus Package

The Progress Report | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Economic Stimulus Package, Economy, Center for American Progress, John Podesta, Obama Stimulus Plan, Obama Stimulus Package, Obama Stimulus, Stimulus Package, Obama Stimulus Package 2009, Politics News

Today, President-elect Obama is moving forward with what he has billed as his top priority: an economic stimulus package called the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan."

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Obama & Transparency: Walking the Talk

ProPublica | Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics

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President-elect Barack Obama's transition team seems to be following through with its promise of transparency by posting documents from its meetings with industry and advocacy groups.

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