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The combined percentage of voters of who deem Obama's agenda "just about right" or "not liberal enough" is 58% -- roughly parallel to Obama's overall approval rating of 54%. That's the center-left governing majority.
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics
How could any American, any human, stand by as another is brutally raped? How could other Americans join in, jeer, take photos and videos with their c...
Avital Binshtock | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green
We know her as Blossom, that spunky adolescent on that eponymous sitcom. But since the series ended in 1995, Mayim Bialik, now 33, has truly blossomed.
Wade Norris | Posted 10.16.2009 | Denver
There is more than football to like about Kyle Orton. His environmental conscience.
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
News cycles thrive on controversy and the extreme, so those elements of our country are continuing to get more and more airtime.
David Horton | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
As a biologist I tend to observe the behavior of conservatives in the way that I would observe bird behavior, or the behavior of, say, skunks.
Jim Selman | Posted 07.23.2009 | Living
Last week was not a good week for the planet and I've been taking it personally.
Carol M. Swain | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics
(Sunday, May 31, 2009) - President Obama is a masterful politician who uses his intellect and popularity to confuse supporters and distractors. His m...
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.20.2009 | Media
Epithets like "socialist" and "fascist" enable people on the right to bond with each other and -- though they may not acknowledge it -- to alienate everybody else.
Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 06.09.2009 | Politics
Obama will want his nominee at the very least to be as "liberal" as Souter, Breyer, Ginsburg and Stevens. He will not want to make an error on this.
Jim Wallis | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics
A new generation of Evangelical Christians launched The Two Futures Project whose mission is "for the abolition of all nuclear weapons."
Lanny Davis | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics
The shrinkage is primarily due to two facts about the current Religious-Right dominated Republican Party: unpopular ideas and bad attitudes.
Bill Shireman | Posted 05.05.2009 | Politics
The Iowa decision illustrates that progress is possible when principled people on the left and right set aside their cultural preferences, and examine their beliefs at a deeper level.
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.30.2009 | Media
Due to a genetic deformity among conservatives, they are seemingly born without being able to spot irony in all its delicious forms.
Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 04.13.2009 | Media
The first two Presidents on 24 were Black men. The first was assassinated and the second was responsible for allowing nuclear bombs into the country, causing mass destruction.
Justin Callaway | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics
I used to joke helplessly that I'd be better off working for less in a menial retail job with good benefits once you weigh my hourly rate with the high out-of-pocket cost of my lack of benefits.
Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 03.15.2009 | World
Can somebody spell the words, "advertisers" and "boycott," and then can the congregation give me a resounding, amen?
Jim Jaffe | Posted 03.27.2009 | Home
Public consensus takes a long time to get. But it is worth waiting for if the goal is a lasting result.
Jim Wallis | Posted 02.19.2009 | Living
The day after the inauguration, I will be joining religious leaders at the National Prayer Service for our new president. I will pray that this new era can change the image of religion in our country.
Sahil Kapur | Posted 01.16.2009 | Green
Both groups are convinced they possess a uniquely superior grasp of reality. Facts and evidence are muffled by their messianic quest to inform society of its delusions and inadequacies.
Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics
While keeping major progressive reforms such as health care, the economy and Iraq in his sites, Obama's choices for his administration have been pragmatic and, gasp, a bit moderate.
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.
Aram Khayatpour | Posted 12.19.2008 | Media
During the presidential campaign season, media coverage of McCain was 57% negative and 14% positive while the coverage of Obama was 29% negative and 36% positive.
Nathaniel Frank | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics
What does a gay, white liberal feel upon the election of the world's first African-American president at the moment America's biggest, bluest state votes to rip away my right to marry?
David Horton | Posted 12.10.2008 | Politics
If an Obama presidency is going to mean anything it should mean a return to reality based decision making, not some kind of spurious process by which ideological decisions are made in the face of evidence.
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Bill Scher | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics