Watch Long Island For the New Right Wing Groundswell
Today we will see the crawl, but next year we will see the running. The bouillabaisse of discontent has been churning, and this year's minority will be a movement looking to step up.
Today we will see the crawl, but next year we will see the running. The bouillabaisse of discontent has been churning, and this year's minority will be a movement looking to step up.
Nancy Wadsworth | Posted 10.13.2009 | Denver
In my division at DU of over 70 professors, I can count the number of tenure-track faculty of color on one hand. In DU's service and maintenance position ranks, the demographics are reversed.
Michael D. Brown | Posted 11.21.2009 | Denver
We should never refrain from expressing our opinions with emotions and passions for fear that the nut case will hear it wrong and act out violently.
AP | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics
STATELINE, Nev. -- Former Vice President Dan Quayle gives President Barack Obama high marks for surrounding himself with quality advisers on national ...
Cedric Perrier | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics
In the last six months alone, we have begun to see the rise of the electronic electorate and with it a real prospect for the growth of Referendum politics.
Mike Lux | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
We need progressive groups in regular in-depth policy meetings with the administration, even if that means they have to soft-pedal their criticisms some of the time to keep that access.
Martha St Jean | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics
The Bush torture memos have provided more questions than answers. Where were the "reasonable observers" who should have given dissenting viewpoints based on legal and moral ramifications?
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics
The inconsistent standards by which Gingrich, Cheney and Republicans are judging Obama are troubling.
Rupert Russell | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics
Pundits have criticized last week's announcements on the new bank bailout and Afghanistan. Yet, a crack up of the Democratic coalition or fracturing of the progressive movement it is not.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics
First President Obama wasn't "black enough" for the black left. Then he was "too centrist" in his appointments for the white left. Then he wasn't gay friendly enough. Now he is President.
Rupert Russell | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics
Progressive billionaires, bloggers and grassroots activists mobilized less against a conservative president than a complicit mainstream media and a Bush-enabling Democratic establishment.
Omri Marcus | Posted 02.07.2009 | World
Here is a short guide to the various characters you will find in the Tel Aviv bubble these days, including Mr. Right Wing, Mr. Left Wing, The Escapist, and The Conspiracy Theory Guy.
Marty Kaplan | Posted 01.22.2009 | Politics
As the country went to the polls this past fall, the meme that America is a "center-right" country surged. I have some data to add to that debate, and it drives a final stake into the center-right talking-point.
Chris Weigant | Posted 01.03.2009 | Politics
Obama is going to do something to absolutely enrage leftists, progressives, and the few remaining Americans who actually call themselves liberals; and, furthermore, he's going to do it within his first 100 days in office.
Deanne Stillman | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics
"Fellow citizens," George Bush said last night, "if the Hanoi Hilton could not break John McCain's resolve to do what is best for his country, you can...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
My problem isn't that Obama doesn't always agree with me. My problem is that he has started to not always agree with himself -- falling prey instead to the Conventional Wisdom sirens.
Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama dealt a bit in platitudes during the primaries so that he'd have less to disassociate himself from once he had the nomination in hand. But he held back on a few whoppers, too.
B.D. Gallof | Posted 11.03.2009 | New York