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MoveOn: Obama Got Outfoxed

Adam Green | Posted April 28, 2008 | Media


Adam Green

It’s no secret that MoveOn.org members have been very supportive of Barack Obama’s candidacy – endorsing him with a 70% vote, raising lots of small dollar donations for him, sending hundreds of thousands of personal endorsement emails to friends and family before key primaries and caucuses, and making...

Cruel and Unusual Originalism

Doug Kendall | Posted April 23, 2008 | Politics


Doug Kendall

Could Alabama bring back the whipping post or brand the skin of a thief with a scarlet T, and not run afoul of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment? Such a proposition may seem outlandish, but it is what opinions signed last week by Justices Antonin Scalia...

Democrats Should Create a 'U.S. Common Wealth Fund' to Challenge Republican Business Hegemony

Max Keiser | Posted April 22, 2008 | Business


Max Keiser


The problem with the 'left' in America is that they don't want to play the game any more. They refuse to accept the fact that democracy in America has been co-opted by Big Business and it is now virtually impossible to get it back by simply pointing to...

Party Like It's 1932: The Obama Option

Norman Solomon | Posted April 21, 2008 | Politics


Norman Solomon

Seventy-six years ago, to many ears on the left, Franklin D. Roosevelt sounded way too much like a centrist. True, he was eloquent, and he'd generated enthusiasm in a Democratic base eager to evict Republicans from the White House. But his campaign was moderate -- with policy proposals that...

Political Masochism: Punishing Ourselves With Republicans

Russ Wellen | Posted April 18, 2008 | Off The Bus


Russ Wellen

Low-information voter indeed.

In the previous two presidential election campaigns, Al Gore and John Kerry, starched at the collar to begin with, ran campaigns prudent to the point of pussyfooting. Both Democrats attempted to court the corporate interests that helped bring Bill Clinton success. Meanwhile, those who had sought to...

Building the Progressive Movement with SNAP

John Riley | Posted April 8, 2008 | Politics


John Riley

Not all PACs deserve a bad name. Here at Yale University, a student run political action committee in its second electoral cycle is actually trying to expand grassroots field operations, unlike many of its corporate brethren. Students for a New American Politics PAC, founded in 2005 by students in the...

Dumping Air America's Randi Rhodes Won't Cure Progressives Clinical Hillary Obsession

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted April 4, 2008 |


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Air America yak jock should not have been suspended. She should have been canned. That will never happen though. After her moment kid slap, she'll be back on the Air America airwaves with more, albeit slightly toned down until the heats off, ritual diatribes against Hillary Clinton. Rhodes got the...

"Blue America" Blues

Beth Arnold | Posted March 31, 2008 |


Beth Arnold

"Oh, you're from a Red State." That's what the lanky man from San Francisco said at the moment we met. My husband and I were at a dinner with British/French friends, who wanted to introduce us to an American couple that lived in their building. We all were neighbors in...

Letting History Be Our Guide

Mike Lux | Posted March 27, 2008 | Politics


Mike Lux

Cross-Posted at OpenLeft.com

Barack Obama's New Hampshire concession speech became one of the most important moments in this campaign. The speech was made into that powerful "yes we can" video and was downloaded and commented on a ton. What has been less commented on, but something which I think...

Easter in Paris

Beth Arnold | Posted March 23, 2008 | Living


Beth Arnold

It's a beautiful though cold day in Paris. The sky is blue with white puffy clouds floating high above us. The Sunday market on rue Montmartre is buzzing, as usual, with us and our neighbors choosing choice fish and meat, breads and cakes, beautiful crisp vegetables, bottles of wine, and...

What Progressives Can Learn from William F. Buckley

Daniel Brook | Posted February 28, 2008 | Politics


Daniel Brook

With William F. Buckley's passing yesterday, perhaps the time has come for progressives to stop fearing him and learn from him. Not from his ideas, of course, but from his tactics.

Buckley came of age in an America guided by a liberal consensus. Rather than trim his sails...

The Progressive Populist Moment

Tom Hayden | Posted February 21, 2008 | Politics


Tom Hayden

Back in 2004, I wrote an essay predicting "the progressive populist moment" was at hand. Katrina vanden Heuvel disagreed. It turns out I was premature. In this year's Democratic primary, the activists and rank-and-file of the Democratic Party have been the magnet pulling the candidates towards a common platform of...

Who Are Red Letter Christians?

Tony Campolo | Posted February 15, 2008 | Politics


Tony Campolo

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections. Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored. It is a tribute...

Is the Word "Conservative" Going the Way of the Word "Liberal?"

Matt Littman | Posted February 13, 2008 | Politics


Matt Littman

In 1964, it was considered a virtue to be a liberal. FDR's legacy was strong. Liberals brought us victory in World War II, social security, voting rights for African-Americans, a tough stance against Communism, and Camelot. On the big issues, the liberal agenda was dominant.

But the divisive Vietnam...

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Clinton Accepts Fox News Debate

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Sam Stein   |   February 5, 2008 02:18 PM


Risking the ire of progressive activists, Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign announced that it has accepted a debate to air on Fox News on February 11, according to her chief strategist Mark Penn. "There is an enormous interest in these debates...

Meet The Progressives

Allison Kilkenny | Posted February 3, 2008 | Politics


Allison Kilkenny

The best people to talk about politics with are comics. They're humble folk because they make a living wowing herds of fat, drunk tourists with jokes that cross all social, racial, and gender boundaries. Ergo, they don't try to throw big words around like so many Ph.D.-carriers, which really is...

When Gloria Calls...

Joanne Bamberger | Posted January 28, 2008 | Politics


Joanne Bamberger

As a girl growing up on a farm in the 1970s, I was a bit different from my girlfriends.

From a relatively early age, I was addicted to the politics of the nation over those of high school. Instead of watching Happy Days, I was glued to the Watergate...

The Headless Donkey

Allison Kilkenny | Posted January 24, 2008 | Politics


Allison Kilkenny
"I think we're not looking sufficiently at what is happening at the grassroots in the country. We have not emphasized sufficiently the cultural revolution that we have to make among ourselves in order to force the government to do differently. Things do not start with governments."

-Grace Lee Boggs

When...

Screening Liberally Big Picture: What The Candidate Got Right - And What It Got Wrong

Josh Bolotsky | Posted January 23, 2008 | Entertainment


Josh Bolotsky
They said this day would never come. They said our sights were set too high. They said this country was too divided...You have done what the cynics said we couldn't do.
- Presidential candidate Barack Obama, Iowa victory rally

They said when we got into this we didn't have...

"Experts" on the Blogosphere: Ditch Bai, Give Us Boehlert

Jane Hamsher | Posted January 23, 2008 | Media


Jane Hamsher

Eric Boehlert has a fantastic, carefully researched piece up at Media Matters documenting how a comment made by Rachel Maddow on the night of the New Hampshire primary made its way through the blogosphere and ended with Chris Matthews apologizing for...

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