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.
Simon Woods | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
Obama's lead is evaporating at precisely the same moment people perceive him to be less liberal and more centrist: he is undermining the very premise of his campaign.
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
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?
Dennis Perrin | Posted 07.01.2008 | Media
Reading the liblogs is like watching a character on TV watching TV -- the difference being that the TV actor knows that he or she is playing make-believe. Most libloggers have yet to reach such awareness.
Malcolm Friedberg | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
McCain's challenge lies in maintaining the politically middle-of-the-road voters, while appealing to social conservatives. Obama's lies in moving to the middle without giving up his liberal base.
Irshad Manji | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
I was born after Bobby died, so maybe I'm not supposed to care about him. Truth is, though, my generation has something timely, even urgent, to learn from his advice to the world's youth.
Mary Lyon | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics
We're lucky, as Democrats, that we've had Ted Kennedy as a leading light of our party for so long. He's our link to a past when everything seemed renewed, refreshed, and all things seemed possible.
Byron Williams | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics
With the closing of the Rockridge Institute, right-wing ideology will continue dominate public conversation. When will liberals learn that they've got to put their money where their ideas are?
Russ Wellen | Posted 04.18.2008 | Home
What are those of us oblivious to the economy or the war voting on? Gay marriage? Abortion? Lapel pins? Chances are many of us may again vote only to our comfort level, as we did with George Bush.
Shaun Jacob Halper | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics
If Hillary's candidacy runs its course, feminists and Hillary supporters must continue battling misogyny, despite their former loyalties, by rallying ...
Michael Conniff | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics
Being a conservative means never having to say you're sorry -- whether you're sorry or not. They live for hypocrisy, for the thrill of finding Al Gore recumbent in a gas-guzzling jet.
Nancy L. Cohen | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics
America's two most important national newspapers fret that Obama is unelectable because he is too liberal.
Oliver Willis | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics
Pelosi is a figure demanding of respect -- especially from people who are supposed to be her fellow Democrats.
Matt Littman | Posted 02.13.2008 | Politics
Conservatism, if it wants to return, will have to enter a political rehabilitation program and emerge with a new identity. It won't look to Ronald Reagan for answers, if it is smart, but to Teddy Roosevelt.
Los Angeles Times | Jonathan Chait | Posted 01.26.2008 | Politics
Something strange happened the other day. All these different people -- friends, co-workers, relatives, people on a liberal e-mail list I read -- kept...
Matthew Kohut | Posted 12.14.2007 | Politics
We are witnessing the end of the second of two great ideological cycles that have dominated American politics over the past 75 years.
Michael Gene Sullivan | Posted 11.24.2007 | Politics
Until Democrats can clearly identify for themselves what they stand for, stop believing the insidious redefinition of themselves and their allies by their declared enemies
David Sloan Wilson | Posted 11.10.2007 | Politics
If men are from Mars and women from Venus, where do liberals and conservatives come from?
Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.06.2007 | Politics
I like how Schumer and Feinstein coordinated their Friday press releases on Mukasey to take pressure off each other. And they released it on a Friday night. Did you think we wouldn't notice?
Dennis Perrin | Posted 10.29.2007 | Politics
Today's liberals, many of them, anyway, cannot see a world beyond that of Global Corporate Order, which is why they'll continually serve one of the GCO's control mechanisms, the Democrats.
Washington Post | Robert Barnes, Michael A. Fletcher and Kevin Merida | Posted 09.28.2007 | Home
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Amitai Etzioni | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics