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It took pressure from progressives to get a partly decent mortgage fraud settlement. They can’t take their eyes off the prize now.

It is a painfully awkward dance for a party more accustomed to trampling on women’s rights.

The candidate’s most useful supporters have been evangelicals who believe that government should be rooted in biblical law.

This holiday season, we celebrate the most inspiring activists, organizations and politicians who are fighting for the 99 percent.

A powerful, bipartisan coalition of deficit hawks has manufactured a center-right consensus that dominates the Beltway.

Looking toward 2012, ALEC is peddling “Voter ID” laws to disenfranchise voters least likely to support their right-wing candidates.

He can, if he presents a just peace plan supported by former Presidents Clinton and Bush.

How can the pro-worker movement born in the streets of Madison be nurtured into a national force?

In a tough year for progressives, these courageous people and smart ideas shone through.

Everyone knows that Obama wants to whack Social Security benefits to lure Republicans into a deal on raising taxes. In that case, keep Alan Simpson on the commission on reducing the federal deficit—his tasteless zingers are doing more harm than good.