Andrea Batista Schlesinger

Andrea Batista Schlesinger is the executive director of the Drum Major Institute, a progressive policy think tank based in New York City.

Currently

  • Three R's and a Why

    September 15, 2009

    Civics education in schools creates young people who turn into the citizens that our democracy requires.

2008

  • A Chaos of Experimentation

    March 20, 2008

    The New Deal spirit of "persistent experimentation" yielded impressive results for the country. American leaders can recapture that spirit.

2007

  • Immigrant Drivers License Plan Unravels

    November 14, 2007

    New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer had a good idea about how to issue driver's licenses to undocumented workers. Too bad he caved.

  • YearlyKos Sticks With the Issues

    July 18, 2007

    A netroots political convention in Chicago aims to transcend the horse race and let the people, not the media, frame the questions put to candidates.

  • Pro-Immigrant Populism

    February 22, 2007 Subscribe

    Immigration reform should be shaped by progressive values that prize the dignity of all workers.

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Blogs

» The Beat

Bill Moyers Tells a Tale of Two Quagmires: Vietnam & Afghanistan | "Once again, the loudest case for enlarging the war is being made by those who will not have to fight it..."
John Nichols
65 Comments

» The Notion

Palin as the Church Lady | Going Rogue book tour brings passive-aggressive rightwing Christianity to the fore.
Leslie Savan
118 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Friday | The "Second Amendment" sale; the raving paranoids of the right.
Eric Alterman

» Editor's Cut

An Alternative to Escalation in Afghanistan | President Obama is expected to make a decision regarding his Afghanistan strategy after Thanksgiving.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
76 Comments

» The Dreyfuss Report

Chongqing: Socialism in One City | China is managing the most important event in the world: the urbanization of half a billion people. Fast.
Robert Dreyfuss
204 Comments

» Act Now!

Toward Copenhagen | A guide to joining the movement against climate change.
Peter Rothberg
62 Comments