In the current health-care debate, we could learn a lot from our closest neighbors, although, as usual, we probably won't.
Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 06.30.2009 | World
No culture can expect to look to another for answers, wholesale. But wouldn't it be tragic if we let mindless labels and manipulated stereotypes block us from inspiration and practical ideas just because they arise elsewhere?
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.20.2009 | Media
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.
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
The collapse of the moderate opposition to gay marriage is both partially caused by the right wing of the Republican Party's increasing isolation on the fringes of American politics.
Nathan Hegedus | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
Reminded of what America stands for -- a nation of pure individuals -- I admit I fell prey to "socialism" after all those years as a "liberal."
Rick Horowitz | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics
when Republicans actually come face-to-face, or even voice-to-voice, with the actual Obama, they can't help but be reassured -- or is it disappointed? -- that he's not the bogeyman they've made him out to be.
Donnie Fowler | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics
Last week I was invited to join Sean Hannity again on his primetime show on Fox News. His viewers loved it, sending me several warm and fuzzy emails s...
Timothy Karr | Posted 05.28.2009 | Media
Last week, conservative factions within the RNC circulated an e-mail urging party leadership to brand as a "socialist" anyone who advocates even moderate changes to the government's role in society.
Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics
Branding someone as a socialist has become the slur du jour. If we could get beyond such nonsense, I think we could use a good debate about what goes on here compared to places with a long social-democratic tradition.
Mike Lux | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics
Conservatives have opposed progressive change -- for states rights and against "big government socialism" -- in every era. In those past eras, history was not on their side. It is not in our time, either.
Eyck Freymann | Posted 05.20.2009 | World
Evo Morales' charisma and resonant populist message have revolutionary potential throughout the South American continent. The question is only whether he will be thwarted by foreign governments and corporations.
John O'Kane | Posted 05.19.2009 | Business
The "debate" about how we're now on the slippery slope of socialism is truly a farce this time around.
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics
Those on the far right can't have it both ways, calling for revolution and secession on the one hand, while protesting a report raising concerns about right wing extremist violence on the other.
Michael Gene Sullivan | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics
History shows that capitalists, like wars, earthquakes, and floods, will always wreck our country -- the only difference being natural disasters don't also rob us in the process.
Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics
Today's "teabag" protests would be funny, if they didn't make me think of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, and what he might have accomplished if Fox News existed during his time.
Michael Gene Sullivan | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics
Capitalism is self-sustaining like a cancer - it sustains itself as it kills it's host.
Think Progress | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics
Today, ThinkProgress went over to Lafayette Square Park in front of the White House to attend one of the many right-wing Tax Day Tea Parties taking pl...
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics
With the election of Barack Obama as U.S. president, the world has entered a new economic context, "social or community capitalism," which will become our paradigm by 2015 - 2020.
Andy Schupak | Posted 05.14.2009 | World
The end of the blockade, the Cuban people feel, will bring American tourists with the money and freedom needed to create a new beginning for Cuba.
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 05.11.2009 | Media
The lofty ideal of rational self-interest challenges the principle of personal responsibility, and lays the groundwork to rationalize anything.
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 05.03.2009 | Media
In his press conferences, Obama has been leaving the press corps -- especially the New York Times -- aghast by calling on journalists from smaller news outlets.
Karl Frisch | Posted 05.03.2009 | Media
For more than 75 years, conservatives have smeared progressive attempts to reform our faltering health-care system as "socialized medicine."
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics
"I am ashamed at getting my stimulus bill passed so quickly. Republicans, those masters of bipartisanship, offered their sincere efforts to delay this bill for months and, I admit, I ignored them."
B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business
"Toxic assets" are two words that don't belong together in the English language. The meaning of one cancels out the meaning of the other.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics
Media Matters has documented the way various media figures and partisan critics, confronted by the White House's attempts to do the things they were v...
Bill Mann | Posted 07.06.2009 | World