In the past two weeks alone, we've taken several really major steps forward to a clean-energy future. It's clear that we not only can but should cut our carbon emissions much faster than anyone in Congress is talking about.
Josh Silver | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media
How did it happen that just a few media pundits can disseminate vitriol and misinformation into millions of homes, and cast it as real news?
Alan Rosenblatt | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Beck, Hannity and crew are clearly and deliberately out to take down Obama any way they can, in part by railing on his "czars." Van Jones was a hatchet job to undermine the president.
Paula Goldman | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
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Kevin Grandia | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
You won't be surprised that Glenn Beck wasn't the mastermind behind the campaign to remove Van Jones. The attack was orchestrated by a fringe group of free-marketeers called Americans for Prosperity.
Michael Kieschnick | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
The Obama administration has lost more than a brilliant advocate. By failing to stand up and to call out Beck for his smears, it has lost power at a time when it needs every ounce of power.
Frances Beinecke | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
The ideas Van so eloquently communicates have become mainstream today, and that is threatening to the far right and their friends at Fox News.
Washington Independent | David Weigel | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
...The campaign against Sunstein has largely written itself. One of the most regularly cited legal scholars, the author, co-author, or editor of dozen...
Mike Lux | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Going into tonight's big speech, the question is this: Is the relationship between Obama and the progressive community broken or just bent?
Jakada Imani | Posted 11.08.2009 | Green
Now, more than ever, we must redouble our efforts to create a green-collar economy that truly creates opportunity for all.
Amy Goodman | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
Glenn Beck may claim a notch in his belt, but he's also helped push Van Jones back into an arena where he can be much more effective, as a grass-roots organizer.
Terry Curtis Fox | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
The McCarthyist goal was to purge government of progressive people and ideas. It was highly effective in the fifties and early sixties, and it is proving frighteningly effective today.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.08.2009 | Media
If you serve a right-wing Republican president you can write or say anything you want. But if you serve a liberal Democratic president, like the "pinks" who fell to McCarthyism, you can be taken down.
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 11.08.2009 | Green
As an informed, exciting and compelling presenter, Van Jones made clear that the "green collar economy" is tangible and terrific. With Jones gone we have to worry that Obama might now repeat history.
Glynnis MacNicol | Posted 11.08.2009 | Media
Fox is a great punching bag, but no one wants to admit its anchors have the power to bring down a White House official.
David Sirota | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
The White House answers more to Glenn Beck than it does to the progressive base of the Democratic Party that got them into the White House in the first place.
Ray Hanania | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
On issue after issue, Obama is acting like he is soon to run for re-election, instead of being a president with a massive mandate still only months into his administration.
Adele Stan | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
The racism and red-baiting suffered by Jones at the hands of Beck and his admirers are simply key elements in a marketing strategy designed to serve Very Big Business.
Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
President Obama faces two kinds of nasty, but related smears: one for who he is, and the other on the issues.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
Thank you, Glenn Beck. By helping force the resignation of Van Jones, you have done a great service to your country. But in the exact opposite way than you intended.
Gillian Caldwell | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green
In all the stories swirling around Glen Beck/Fox's smear campaign on my long-time friend and colleague Van Jones, I hardly recognized who they were talking about.
Blaise Zerega | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
Saturday night's surprising resignation of Van Jones and the controversy leading up to to it reveals all that is good and great about our political system. It also reveals all that is bad and sad about it.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green
How easy to be cynical on this Labor Day, and declare it a day that will live in infamy for coal miners and coalfield residents and green job advocates across the nation.
David Sirota | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
If we, as a movement, cannot stand up for a genuine progressive hero like Van Jones, then we will not be able to stand up for anything, much less major legislative initiatives.
Ferentz LaFargue | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
Let us be clear that Van Jones' resignation is not a defeat for the Obama administration, but it's a defeat for anyone who believes in public service.
Carl Pope | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green