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A Green New Deal Would Require A Broad Coalition

The Nation | Van Jones | Posted 12.04.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Green New Deal, Green Bailout, Green Collar Jobs, Green Jobs, New Deal, Economy, Environment, Green Economy, Van Jones, Fdr, Green News

In the New Deal period, it was a broad electoral coalition that moved the government onto the side of ordinary people, not FDR alone. Farmers, workers...

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Hope. Not Faith.

Marc Cooper | Posted 12.03.2008 | Home

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Marc Cooper

Hope, says the dictionary, is about our desires. Faith, on the other hand, is about confidence. I've got tons of the former, and damn near none of the latter. So if Obama offers hope, I'll take what I can get.

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Conservative Fiction: The New Deal Sucked!

Bill Scher | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Deal, Economy, New New Deal, Obama New Deal, Fdr, Recession, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Fdr New Deal, Great Depression, Politics News
Bill Scher

Conservatives are stuck in their default position, preferring fictional history to actual history, refusing to acknowledge what clearly has worked to stimulate the economy, and what clearly hasn't.

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A New Progressive Era?

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Election 2008, New New Deal, Mandate, Democrats, New Deal, Barack Obama, Politics News
Robert L. Borosage

If Obama is elected, we will learn if he has the audacity of hope to launch a new era of bold progressive reform, and whether progressives can forge a force for change to propel it.

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McCain's Plan: Not Just Worse than Alternatives, But the Dumbest Idea Since Putin Reared His Head

Paul Abrams | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Public Investment, John McCain, New Deal, Taxes, Fdr, Economy, Politics News
Paul Abrams

Cutting spending is about the only proposal McCain has made in this campaign that sounds remotely authentic. Authentic, but incredibly dumb.

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Wanted: A Good Keynesian. Massive Public Investment Will Fix the Economy

Paul Abrams | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Balanced Budget, Economy, Herbert Hoover, Great Depression, Fdr, New Deal, Public Investment, Fdr New Deal, Politics News
Paul Abrams

If anyone did not think a McCain presidency would be both a foreign policy and a domestic disaster, you now have proof positive.

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The First & Last VP Debate: This Soccer Mom Isn't Buying

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

The economy is about more than just Wall Street bailouts. It's about how we're going to pay for escalating childcare, how we can pull together healthcare coverage for our kids.

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Landslide Needed

Norman MacAfee | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

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Norman MacAfee

We need a landslide. If 80 percent of the population think the country is on the wrong track, why can't we have an election where 80 percent vote for Barack and 20 for McCain?

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This is a Crisis -- But Also an Amazing Opportunity

Johann Hari | Posted 11.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Unemployment, Global Economy, Wall Street Crisis, Economy, New Deal, Free Market, Politics News
Johann Hari

Even if the bail-out finally goes ahead, credit is drying up; unemployment is sure to swell, along with all the rage and resentment it brings. So why am I feeling -- tentatively, terribly -- optimistic?

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The Next New Deal

Agit-Pop | Posted 11.01.2008 | Media

Read More: George Bush, $700 Billion Bailout, Subprime Crisis, Bailout Bill, Bailout, New Deal, Media News
Agit-Pop

2008-10-01-agitpop.jpgInstead of the handing those who created the Sub Prime Pyramid Scheme a TRILLION of our dollars, we demand a NEW New Deal that invests in the country that our children will inherit.

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Bush May Be Stupid, But He's No Fool: The Bailout and the Final Repeal of the 20th Century

Pete Cenedella | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, CEO Pay, Social Security, Wall Street Crisis, Bailout, New Deal, George W. Bush, CEO Compensation, Republican Party, Wall Street Bailout, Government Bailout, Politics News
Pete Cenedella

Bush is playing dumb so we won't notice that his final stroke in office will be to make the Republican Revolution permanent and impossible to repeal for decades to come.

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Too Big to Fail and Too Small to Matter

Norman Solomon | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jobs Program, Welfare, Prison Industry, Aig, Corporate America, Nuclear Weapons, Wall Street, Bailout, New Deal, Economy, Stock Market, Franklin Roosevelt, Corporate State, Warfare State, Crash, Politics News
Norman Solomon

These times provide a crash course on the corporate state: If a company like AIG is too big to fail, the government will rescue it. Mere pe...

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How Obama can win Indiana

Bil Browning | Posted 09.14.2008 | Politics

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Bil Browning

(Crossposted from Bilerico-Indiana where we're covering the national and state elections heavily.) The Obama campaign released a new television ad ye...

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It's 1968 Revisited, And It's Not The Liberals' Year

Tony Sachs | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics

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Tony Sachs

To elect a far-left liberal in 2008 would be like Reagan getting elected in 1968, or FDR in 1924. The country simply isn't ready yet. The liberals' time will come again -- just not this year.

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