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One Year After Obama's Election: Still Smarter...Than The Alternative

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics


Chris Weigant

What puts this first year in perspective for me is that: Obama may not be smarter than all of us, but he sure is smarter by a long shot than McCain would have been. And that, for now, is enough for me.

One Year After Election Day 2008: Still A Center-Left Nation

Bill Scher | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics


Bill Scher

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.

Clean Energy Business Zones: A Tool for Economic Growth

Joshua Freed | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green


Joshua Freed

America has led virtually every technological revolution of the past century. We'll do it again with clean energy. And we have the opportunity for everyone to share in the prosperity, rather than just a few.

Friday Talking Points: Is Opt-Out The Answer?

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics


Chris Weigant

The plan isn't going into effect until 2013. Think you're tired of TV ads and screaming folks at town hall meetings now? Picture a more local version of that for the next four years -- not a pretty sight.

Friday Talking Points [95] -- A Call To Action

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics


Chris Weigant

The progressives and Blue Dogs are going to have a showdown. It is going to culminate not in statements to the press (or the lack thereof), not in some whispered whip count, but rather in a very public vote.

Peeling Away the "Obama Phenomenon": An Interview with Paul Street

Christian Avard | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics


Christian Avard

Street goes beyond the Obama phenomenon and investigates who Obama is and what he's all about in Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics.

Friday Talking Points [92] -- The End Of Silly Season

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics


Chris Weigant

Sadly, Obama's speech to school children has become mired in manufactured controversy from the right, with typical sky-is-falling rhetoric about the evil, evil man who occupies the Oval Office.

Progressives Rally Against Third Way

Adam Green | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics


Adam Green

Yesterday, Third Way -- which claims to be the "moderate wing of the progressive movement" -- proved why they should rebrand themselves "the Think Tank arm of the insurance industry lobby."

Friday Talking Points [90] -- Obama To Switch Parties

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics


Chris Weigant

Ted Kennedy is putting both his legacy and his sense of entitlement to his office before the interests of his constituents.

That Girl in The Progressive Insurance Commercials

Maggie Van Ostrand | Posted 09.01.2009 | Media


Maggie Van Ostrand

She's the one who makes viewers either want to befriend her, date her or buy her insurance. She's perky, peppy, and positive, no mean feat in these tough economic times.

Progressive Progress

David Horton | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics


David Horton

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.

Obama and Bright Lines in the Sand

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics


Chris Weigant

Obama again refused to give a strong defense of the public option himself. By doing so, he just dug the hole deeper. What exactly does Obama stand for in the health care debate?

40 Years Old and All I Get is This Damn Rainbow Flag?

Michael DeJong | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living


Michael DeJong

The modern "Gay Rights Movement" has had and still has racism, classism, misogyny, ageism, and trans-phobia at its core.

How to Help Afghans When Congress Approves $100 Billion More in War

ZP Heller | Posted 07.18.2009 | World


ZP Heller

The increased presence of US forces in Afghanistan is the single greatest reason for the Taliban insurgency. And the more they surge, the more Congress will fund more war.

Exclusive Interview With Geoffrey Nunberg, On The Years Of Talking Dangerously

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.20.2009 | Media


Chris Weigant

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.

Sam Stein

Progressives Call Out Dems' "Hypocritical" Fundraising

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics


The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and its counterpart in the House likely thought they were making a big concession by forgoing lobbyists a...

Cautionary Observations for My Fellow Idealists

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics


Dr. Peter Breggin

It is necessary to take a deep breath and ask ourselves if we are endangering America while we reform her by exercising too much government power, however idealistically.

A Passover Seder Haggadah Supplement

Rabbi Michael Lerner | Posted 05.04.2009 | World


Rabbi Michael Lerner

For Ethically Sensitive Jews and our non-Jewish allies. (You don't have to be Jewish to create or attend a seder -- or to adopt the approach to spiri...

Sam Stein

Ed Schultz On MSNBC Gig: People Will Know Where I Stand

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.04.2009 | Media


Poised to take over the 6 p.m. slot on MSNBC, long-time radio talk show host Ed Schultz laid out a programmatic blueprint that would be issue-oriented...

Advice to Obama at G-20 Summit: A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats

Gary Shapiro | Posted 05.01.2009 | Business


Gary Shapiro

I don't know precisely when progressives in this country gave up on free trade. Because when they did, without perhaps even realizing it, they turned their backs on the developing world.

Alan Wolfe on Terrorism and Globalization

Julian Brookes | Posted 03.28.2009 | World


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.

Will Obama's Presidency End the Progressive Movement?

Rupert Russell | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics


Rupert Russell

Progressive billionaires, bloggers and grassroots activists mobilized less against a conservative president than a complicit mainstream media and a Bush-enabling Democratic establishment.

Obama's Monitor-Side Chats

Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics


Andrew Sargus Klein

The more of the country Obama can keep involved, the better chance he has of finding success. It's as much about changing the national attitude as it is implementing policy.

How Will Obama Enrage The Left?

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.03.2009 | Politics


Chris Weigant

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.

The Center-Right Myth

Cenk Uygur | Posted 12.16.2008 | Politics


Cenk Uygur

This is not a center-right country! In the last two elections Democrats picked up over fifty seats in the House, took control of the Senate and the White House. How much clearer can it be?