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Editing the Bible

Mike Lux | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Progressivism, Conservative Movement, Jesus, Holy Bible, Liberalism, Conservapedia, Politics News
Mike Lux

The folks at Conservapedia are re-translating the Bible to make it fit better with conservative ideology. Now there are no suggestions about what's to be done with all those inconvenient references to the poor.

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Norman Podhoretz's Jewish Question

Jonathan Weiler | Posted 10.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Jews, Norman Podhoretz, Liberalism, Media News
Jonathan Weiler

It's Podhoretz's larger ethical vision that is most relevant to his incapacity to understand why the vast majority of Jews don't see things the way he does.

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Senator Kennedy and Legislative Liberalism

Julian E. Zelizer | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Democratic Party, Liberalism, Ted Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Senate, Barack Obama, Politics News
Julian E. Zelizer

Freed from his own presidential aspirations after the 1980 primaries, Ted Kennedy was able to concentrate on taking the fight directly to Congress. In doing so, he made liberalism a legislative reality.

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Ted Kennedy's Life is Living Proof of Liberal Ideal that Government Can Help Make People's Lives Better

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Title IX, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, Ted Kennedy Dead, Immigration and Nationality Act, Apartheid, Family and Medical Leave Act, Ted Kennedy, National-Cancer-Act, Cobra, Edward Kennedy, Minimum Wage, Senator Ted Kennedy, Liberalism, Senator Kennedy, Schip, Politics News
Miles Mogulescu

It's not primarily Senator Kennedy's words that make him one of the great defenders of modern liberalism. His life itself is living proof of the central liberal idea that government can help make people's lives better.

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Wailing Over Veiling

Hisham Wyne | Posted 08.25.2009 | World

Read More: Burqa, Spotlight on Pakistan, Feminism, Veil, Liberalism, France, France Burqas, Sarkozy Burqa, World News
Hisham Wyne

My personal likes and dislikes do not offer a sufficient raison de'etre to unveil anyone. And neither do yours.

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Eminent Liberal Theologian on American Empire: Can Obama Pull Off a Game-Changer in Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan?

Evan Derkacz | Posted 07.24.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq War, Empire, Obama Afghanistan, Iraq Surge, Liberals, Afghanistan Surge, Afghanistan, Liberalism, Theology, Liberal Theology, Iran, Iraq, War in Iraq, Afghanistan War, World News
Evan Derkacz

Today's feature on Religion Dispatches was written by the most eminent interpreter of the American liberal theological tradition today, Gary Dorrien. ...

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Does A Nation of Ninnies Need A Nanny?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 06.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Keynesian Economics, Greed, Thomas Friedman, Teabaggers, Wingnuts, Sean Hannity, Jon Stewart, New Deal, Liberalism, Thomas Farley, Victorians, Glenn Beck, Gardening, Robert Frank, Happiness, Green News
Kerry Trueman

What's the difference between an overly bubbly housing market and sugary carbonated beverages? Both appeal to our infantile desire for instant gratification.

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Barack Obama and the Fear of God

Ed Kilgore | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Religion, Christian Right, Pluralism, Liberalism, Notre Dame, Christianity, Obama, Conservatism, Politics News
Ed Kilgore

In his Notre Dame speech, by insisting on the spiritual validity -- indeed, necessity -- of doubt, Obama is repudiating on religious grounds the very idea that appeals to Revelation should have presumptive value in political debates.

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The Next Justice: What Obama Wants

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 06.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, David Souter, Liberal, Obama Supreme Court, Liberalism, Politics News
Geoffrey R. Stone

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.

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Time for a Tea Party with the Right: Why Progressives Need a Transpartisan Strategy

Bill Shireman | Posted 05.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Tax Day Tea Party, Hate, Government Bailout, Conservatives, Liberalism, Protest, Government Spending, Fox News, Hate Speech, Conservatism, Paul Krugman, Right Wing, Tea Party, Barack Obama, Politics News
Bill Shireman

Let's sit down with the right for tea. Let them vent their anger and hate - and we can vent ours. Let's listen to the fear that lies beneath the hate, to the reasons they're afraid.

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The Radical Middle Wins in Iowa -- Gay Marriage and the Power of Progressive Centrism

Bill Shireman | Posted 05.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Liberal Media, Radical-Center, Liberals, Post-Partisan, Post-Partisanship, Liberal, KCRW Left Right & Center, Radical Center, Conservatives, Moderates, Liberalism, Neocons, Neoconservatives, Iowa Gay Marriage, Centrists, Republican Party, Gay Marriage, Republicans, Politics News
Bill Shireman

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.

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Key Difference Between Modern Liberalism and Conservatism: Nuance

Sahil Kapur | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dogma, Ideology, Crooks and Liars, Nuance, Jonathan Krohn, Rush Limbaugh, Personal Responsibility, Sean Hannity, Conservatism, Principles, Liberalism, Political Philosophy, Individual Liberty, Republican Party, Politics News
Sahil Kapur

The alleged tenets of modern conservatism are great; they just need to be tempered with reality. That's where liberalism steps in.

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Alan Wolfe on Terrorism and Globalization

Julian Brookes | Posted 03.28.2009 | World

Read More: Progressive, The Future of Liberalism, Liberals, Terrorism, Liberalism, Progressives, Globalization, Progressive Book Club, Alan Wolfe, World News
Julian Brookes

An open world is the best remedy against terrorism. Bush talked a lot about the universal idea of human freedom. I think he was right in that language, but his policies encouraged the opposite.

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The Disloyal Opposition: Rush is Right -- Obama Must Fail

Randall Amster | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Limbaugh Obama Fail, Rush Limbaugh Obama, Limbaugh Obama Fails, Rush Obama Fail, Rush Limbaugh, Free Market Capitalism, Race, Bill O'Reilly, Liberalism, Founding Fathers, Multiculturalism, Barack Obama, Satire, Political Humor, Political Satire, Humor Politics, Humor and Satire, Anarchist, Politics News
Randall Amster

If the new President brings closure to current wars and staves off economic collapse, it quite possibly will once and for all bury the neocon legacy deep in the dustbin of history.

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We Are All Americans in the Age of Obama

Manisha Sinha | Posted 02.28.2009 | World

Read More: Lincoln, Thomas Paine, Internationalism, Republicanism, Washington, Liberalism, Obama, Inauguration, America, President Barack Obama, Obama Inauguration, President Obama, Democracy, Obama Inaugural Address, World News
Manisha Sinha

In his inaugural address, President Obama called on Americans and those outside America to be citizens of the world. It was a fundamentally new approach to global citizenship.

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Limbaugh: "I Hope Obama Fails"

Think Progress | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rush Limbaugh, Liberalism, President Obama, Rush Limbaugh Obama, Obama, Barack Obama, Politics News

"Are conservative talk-show hosts eager to go on the attack, after years of defending Bush?" asks the Louisville Courier-Journal's Larry Muhammad. The...

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Guilty: A Sample Chapter From Ann Coulter's Newest Soon-To-Be Bestseller*

Steve Young | Posted 01.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Ann Coulter, Guilty, Social Conservative, Leukemia, Liberals, Liberalism, Terminally Ill Children, Right Wing, Sick Children, Media News
Steve Young

I was able to access an excerpt from Ann Coulter's soon to be released, Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault On America Enjoy... Chapter 14 ...

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The Colossal Collapse of Conservatism

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 01.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Civil Rigths, Reagan, Conservatism, Liberalism, Bush, George Will, Conservative Economics, George W. Bush, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

Republicans have failed not because of poor execution, but because they are acting on a philosophy deeply and fundamentally flawed.

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The Fringe Right Bubble is Bursting

Caroline Presno | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Liberal, Bill Ayers, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Michael Dukakis, Progressive Politics, Barack Obama, Willie Horton, Karl Rove, Republican Machine, Social Conservatives, Swift Boating, The Right, John Kerry, Conservatives, Liberalism, Progressive Liberalism, Attack Ads, Politics News
Caroline Presno

Now we have Republicans, Democrats, and Independents walking away from and speaking out against extreme rhetoric and deeds. The country is ready for an Obama administration.

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Liberalism, What Are You Going As for Halloween?

Matt Mendelsohn | Posted 11.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Economy, Obama, Conservatism, Liberal, Liberals, Liberalism, Flag-Pin Lapels, WFTV, Liberal Economics, Karl Marx, Gun Control, Joe Biden, Big Government, Progressive Conservativism, Obama Socialism, Halloween Costumes, Senator Obama, David Brooks, Barbara West and Joe Biden, Socialism, Liberal Capitalism, Adam Smith, Free-Market Economy, Business News
Matt Mendelsohn

This year, it seemed certain that liberalism would show up at the Halloween block party wearing the costume of a self-loathing American: a terrorist-loving, non-flag-pin-lapel-wearing lefty.

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Dear Republicans: Liberal Is America. Deal with It.

Michael Seitzman | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Barack Obama, Election, Sarah Palin, Republicans, Gop, Liberals, Liberalism, Right-Wing, United States, Media, Politics News
Michael Seitzman

Liberals believe in individual liberties. And what does liberty mean? Freedom. So, exactly which freedoms are you so worried we're taking from you?

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How Chicago Made a Liberal of Me

David Murray | Posted 10.18.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Becoming a Democrat, Henry Horner Homes, Alex Kotlowitz, Democratic Chicago, Liberalism, Studs Terkel, Becoming a Liberal, Chicago News
David Murray

I could have gone either way, and I think that when I arrived in Chicago, fresh out of college in 1992 I was neither liberal nor conservative. But then . . .

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Conservatism is Dead: Long Live Liberalism? (Part III)

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Conservatism, Liberals, Barack Obama, Liberalism, Communitarianism, Politics News
Amitai Etzioni

A revival of the American community requires us to spend much less of our energy and resources on fighting one another, and invest much more of it in the common good.

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Conservatism Is Dead; Long Live Liberalism? (Part II)

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Social Conservatives, Fiscal Conservatives, Conservatives, Liberals, Liberalism, Communitarianism, Blue Dogs, Conservatism, Blue Dogs Coalition, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Amitai Etzioni

The conservatives' well of ideas may well have run dry, but the American majority has hardly turned liberal. So could the most compelling ideas be neither conservative nor liberal but communitarian?

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Conservatism Is Dead; Long Live Liberalism? (Part I)

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Compassionate Conservatism, Conservatives, Liberalism, Communitarianism, The Rise of Liberalism, Conservatism, Modern Conservatism, Post-Reagan Conservatism, Politics News
Amitai Etzioni

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. long claimed to have found that American politics swing back and forth between conservative and liberal periods. After 8 years of Bush, a liberal comeback is due (if not overdue).

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