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After two decades of Republican rule, will New York finally elect a progressive to City Hall?

Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins pulled off a huge upset in a state legislative race by showing that he cared.

Funeral in Iraq

Is there any benefit to be found in an unbroken record of waste, futility and shame? Only if lessons learned prevent a catastrophe in Iran.

Sherrod Brown

The Democratic senator is introducing legislation to break them up, but he’s in an uphill battle—against not only the GOP but his own party.

Protest against the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline

Yes, he said the word “climate”—but he hasn’t committed to any of the big steps needed to avert catastrophe.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Under the leadership of Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the Walmart Foundation used generous gifts to grease the way for store expansions.

He may not have achieved the full FDR, but the president’s State of the Union speech, like his Inaugural, displayed a welcome progressive spirit.

Barack Obama

Even if we like President Obama, do we want him to be a one-man death panel?

Obama in a camera's viewfinder

The president's inaugural address touched all the important bases, except one.

Protest against the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline

Awaiting a Keystone decision, environmentalists make a historic vow to engage in mass civil disobedience. 

Blogs

  Score one for Senator Al Franken. Thanks to him, Jamie Leigh Jones, a former KBR employee who alleges she was gang raped by her coworkers will get her day in court.

 

March 26, 2010

 Bush uses Clinton as Kleenex.

March 24, 2010

 After early struggles and White House hurdles, Obama's grassroots arm says it helped swing tangible votes for health care reform.

March 22, 2010

 "Leadership is not hitting somebody over the head. It's not taking up arms at this point. That's not leadership -- that's assault," explains the former Alaska governor.

March 18, 2010

 What Tim Geithner should be getting credit for, it seems to me, is that Lehman Brothers report -- well, not the report, but the cover-up.

March 16, 2010

 Dodd's bill puts a strong cop on the beat. But the same regulators who've already failed us would look over its shoulder.

March 15, 2010

 Good riddance to the Senate's bipartisan effort to build a weak Consumer Financial Protection Agency.

March 14, 2010

 At what point do we call them the family of mass intimidation and simply stop playing into the Cheney clan's tired old terror tactics?

March 12, 2010

 Senator Bernie Sanders speaks at the Progressive Media Summit.

March 11, 2010

 A new participatory documentary captures the excitement of Obama's election.

March 10, 2010
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