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How can progressives balance support for the Democrats with the need to mobilize grassroots support for social and economic causes?

Despite Obama's unquestionably varied record, progressives can't afford four years under a Romney-Ryan presidency.

Despite Obama's unquestionably varied record, progressives can't afford four years under a Romney-Ryan presidency. 

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A former voter ID supporter realizes the real racial motive behind supposedly “common sense” reforms. 

Wall Street backed Obama in 2008, but now they’re ticked off because the president hasn’t completely rolled over.

The Green Party presidential candidate wants to cut the military budget, bring the troops home and spend the extra funds at home.

Taking away one of America’s most economically efficient and widely used educational and cultural resources is a bad deal for the American people.

Outrageous GOP attacks on women could result in a repeat of the 1992 phenomenon, which saw an upsurge in women elected to Congress.

An important court decision stayed the GOP’s voter-suppression scheme in Pennsylvania. But that battle, and others like it across the nation, is only just beginning.

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Calling the sequester bluff was par for the course for a party that hates popular government programs.

March 4, 2013

Desperate to seem relevant again, the Fox host has been trying his best to manufacture news. 

March 1, 2013

When it comes to a federal right to vote, things are a little more complicated than I wrote before—but that’s not to say we should be encouraged.

March 1, 2013

Progressives shouldn’t confuse a political victory with a policy victory on the sequester.

March 1, 2013

Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) voted against both versions of VAWA reauthorization. If only he would explain why.

March 1, 2013

The tariff on transactions would cost the average investor little while deterring risky high-volume trading—and Jack Lew seems open to the idea.

February 28, 2013

In Washington, the drumbeat is intensifying for yet another Middle East civil war.

February 28, 2013

The well-known reporter links up with Politico to take a mostly apologetic e-mail from an Obama official completely out of context.

February 28, 2013

Ari Berman appears on Washington Journal to debate the importance of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act—which is currently under review by the Supreme Court.

February 27, 2013

The PBS documentary Makers captures the heady joy of the feminism’s Second Wave and founders when trying to reckon with the movement's contemporary incarnation.

February 27, 2013
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