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In a new book, the former Obama White House advisor makes the case for a movement that engages all Americans in the practice of deep patriotism.

With their emphasis on participatory direct democracy, the anarchists behind Occupy Wall Street have changed the very idea of what politics could be.

PowerShift's green organizers descended on Washington this weekend and gave Obama some tough love.

The mainstream media's long-time kid-glove treatment of Andrew Breitbart led directly to the unjustified ouster of Shirley Sherrod.

The right-wing smear machine that nearly cost an exemplary Agriculture Department official her job should be denounced for what it is: a high-tech, low-rent McCarthyism with no purpose but poisonous partisanship.

Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel appears on Real Time with Bill Maher warning the president to regulate the oil industry and not vice versa.

You don't have to go to Copenhagen to join the activists racing against the ticking environmental bomb.

Newsrooms' fears of misunderstanding the right leads to outsized coverage and attention.

Democrats joined Republicans in voting to "Defund ACORN" yet have done nothing to stop Blackwater's taxpayer-funded crusade in Iraq and Afghanistan.