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Daily Pulse: Obama to Outline Vision for Health Care Reform

Lindsay Beyerstein | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics


Lindsay Beyerstein

This is Obama's last chance to recapture the momentum that Democrats lost to corporate-backed town hall hooligans and misinformation during the August recess.

Weekly Audit: Four More Years of Bailout Ben

The Media Consortium | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business


The Media Consortium

Why is the Bernanke reappointment a mistake? Put simply, Bernanke is completely culpable for allowing an economic crisis to foment.

The Progressive Magazine Needs Our Help

Paul Loeb | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics


Paul Loeb

The Progressive may not be able to continue without our help. I'm chipping in and hope my fellow HuffPo readers will too.

Weekly Pulse: Mob Scene

The Media Consortium | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics


The Media Consortium

Republicans and their allies are pressuring Democratic healthcare reformers at townhall meetings around the country. Addie Stan has a blockbuster piece in AlterNet that exposes the network behind the mobs.

Weekly Audit: Why the Rich Can't Afford to Get Richer

The Media Consortium | Posted 08.28.2009 | Home


The Media Consortium

by Zach Carter, TMC MediaWire Blogger If we want our economy to be strong and stable, we have to start thinking about it as a product of community--n...

Life, Liberty and the Right to Be Sick

Margo Hammond and Ellen Heltzel | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics


Margo Hammond and Ellen Heltzel

Scandlen argues that "Americans are not required to buy food, clothing or shelter. Why must they buy health insurance?"

This Week in Magazines: A Remarkably Resilient Progressive Turns 100, Eliot Spitzer Gropes to Turn a Corner

James Warren | Posted 05.20.2009 | Media


James Warren

Newsweek has the most vivid rollout so far of Spitzer's obvious image rehab -- he goes jogging around Central Park with a reporter as his shame and ego continue their internal battle.

McCain Undone By Affect And Temperament
McCain NewsLadder

The Media Consortium | Posted 11.16.2008 | Home


The Media Consortium

Special Debate Edition In the much-anticipated final presidential debate of the 2008 campaign season, the man who landed the greatest number of punch...