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2/3rds of College Students Think They're Going to Change the World

Lisa Wade | Posted 05.21.2013 | College
Lisa Wade

Some call this entitlement, but I think it's at least as true to say that today's college youth (the self-esteem generation) have been promised things. They've always been told to dream big, and so they do.

What Studs Terkel and Rebecca Solnit Taught Me

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 05.20.2013 | Politics
Tom Engelhardt

The largest antiwar movement ever to protest a war that had yet to happen had just packed its tents and gone home in despair, while George W. Bush and his top officials were in their “mission accomplished” triumphalist mode.

Too Soon to Tell

Rebecca Solnit | Posted 05.20.2013 | Politics
Rebecca Solnit

The despairing of May 2003 were convinced of one true thing, that we had not stopped the invasion of Iraq, but they extrapolated from that a series of false assumptions about our failures and our powerlessness across time and space.

Dave Jamieson

Labor Leader Leaves AFL-CIO To Head Community Organizing Network

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.16.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- In a sign of how organized labor is trying to spread its roots more broadly in the progressive movement, Fred Azcarate, a longtime labor...

Three Cheers for Regulation!

Steven Conn | Posted 05.10.2013 | Politics
Steven Conn

There are plenty of places around the globe where the private sector isn't burdened by regulation. Like Bangladesh, where under-regulated factory operations yield cheap clothing at the price of human life. Or China, where you can't ever be quite sure what you're eating and whether it will poison you.

Paul Ryan: Progressivism Is 'Arrogant And Condescending'

The Huffington Post | Preston Maddock | Posted 05.09.2013 | Politics

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) belittled progressives during a speech at the conservative American Enterprise Institute on Wednesday. “Progressivism is ...

The Magnitude of Our Challenges: Inspiration Through Solidarity

Matt Browner Hamlin | Posted 05.08.2013 | Politics
Matt Browner Hamlin

When we fail to realize the beauty of people like us fighting to make the lives of others better, we fundamentally diminish the humanism of our work.

Beyond The Comments: One HuffPoster's Redeeming Story of Her Tumultuous Past

Jessica Joseph | Posted 05.02.2013 | Religion
Jessica Joseph

Instead, I had a knock down, screaming match with "Whoever the hell is up there!" I laid out my case, my fears, my doubts and I demanded an answer!

Why Was It Called 'Progressive Education'?

E. D. Hirsch, Jr. | Posted 05.13.2013 | Politics
E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

Readers of the Huffington Post should not continue to be misled by the accidental lexical residues of the word "progressive" from a rather bizarre moment in European and American intellectual history. Intellectual history may not be very jazzy, but whoever ignores it will be tyrannized by it.

The Best Minds of Our Generation, and Keeping Them Alive

Tanene Allison | Posted 04.23.2013 | Healthy Living
Tanene Allison

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness ... Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! ......

Glenn Thrush: Who is Barack Obama?

92nd Street Y | Posted 04.09.2013 | Politics
92nd Street Y

POLITICO senior white house reporter, Glenn Thrush, recently spoke with us about the evolution of President Obama. Looking at the very progressive ina...

The Second Act (of a Nation)

Saladin Ambar | Posted 03.23.2013 | Politics
Saladin Ambar

The president had the temerity to name the unnamable. The people and parts of the country that have never come up in so many prior inaugurals. And there were great lines and better sentiments.

It's Happening: The Global Shift in Consciousness Is Underway and Right on (Mayan) Time

Sarah Davidson | Posted 02.19.2013 | College
Sarah Davidson

We can do this. We can rise from these ashes and rally together, knowing that the pending global shift will end in inspired triumph. We have the tools. We have the drive. We have the passion, and our time is now.

Why I'm Glad Obama Won

Michael Goldstein | Posted 11.28.2012 | Politics
Michael Goldstein

We would have focused on how to bring back Democrats in 2014. But when Clintons or Obamas are at the helm, people can again see that we need far better than what they can ever give us, given that their links to corporate support are not qualitatively less than those of the McCains and Romneys.

The End of the Right-Wing Coalition -- And Where We Go From Here

Nathan Newman | Posted 01.26.2013 | Politics
Nathan Newman

The America of nostalgic visions of clean-cut suburban lawns, self-sufficient breadwinners, and homogeneous communities heard its death rattle on election night.

I Am a Sister Giant

Monique Ruffin | Posted 01.15.2013 | Women
Monique Ruffin

Shame rises within me as the word "takers" resonates throughout my body. I take a deep breath, attempting to calm the anxiety and heat rising from my belly. I find it difficult to hold the complexities of this issue of poverty within me -- I know the face of poverty well.

Sharing a Vision of Broad Progress and Social Change With Others

Eric Rodriguez | Posted 01.13.2013 | Latino Voices
Eric Rodriguez

United with other cohorts of voters, Hispanics are changing the national electorate -- for the better. But it is not just mere numbers that make the Latino vote meaningful.

President Obama's Reelection and Progressive Dissonance

Abdulrahman El-Sayed | Posted 01.07.2013 | Politics
Abdulrahman El-Sayed

For progressives who care about peace, prosperity, civil liberties, and the future of our country, Obama's reelection last night was no victory. It was the rock we chose over the hard place. I have little hope because there has been less change.

The Election Game vs. a Real Politics

Michael Goldstein | Posted 01.05.2013 | Politics
Michael Goldstein

As an unedifying election cycle draws to a close, I am sharing another excerpt from my forthcoming book, Return of the Light: A Political Fable in Which the American People Retake Their Country.

Hurricane Sandy, And How Our Descendants Will View Our Choices

Michael Goldstein | Posted 01.02.2013 | Green
Michael Goldstein

As Sandy reminds us of the reality of climate change, I want to share an excerpt from my forthcoming book, Return of the Light: A Political Fable in Which the American People Retake Their Country.

Change.org: We've Seen This Before

Wenonah Hauter | Posted 12.30.2012 | Green
Wenonah Hauter

Recently, the Huffington Post reported that Change.org has abandoned its progressive roots and apparently planned on doing it without telling anyone, ...

What Changes at Change.org Say About us, Online Advocacy, and Our Movements

Isaac Luria | Posted 12.30.2012 | Politics
Isaac Luria

When I first heard the news of Change.org's departure from its progressive moorings, I was angry -- but not entirely surprised. The writing has been on the wall for years now that Change.org wouldn't remain simply a "progressive" organization.

The Case for Change

Ben Rattray | Posted 12.25.2012 | Politics
Ben Rattray

After reading this, if it's still not clear to you which version of Change.org is accurate, I'd ask you consider suspending final judgment until you see the impact of our actions once the heat of the rhetoric subsides.

Ryan Grim

Change.org Changing: Site To Drop Progressive Litmus Test For Campaigns, Say Internal Documents

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 01.16.2013 | Politics

Read Change.org founder Ben Rattray's response to this story here. WASHINGTON -- Change.org, the online social movement company founded on progress...

The Rain on Our Parade: A Letter to My Dismal Allies

Rebecca Solnit | Posted 11.27.2012 | Politics
Rebecca Solnit

Every four years we hear that in presidential elections we are asked to choose the lesser of two evils. Now, this is not an analysis or an insight; it is a cliché, and a very tired one.