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Follow Brazil's Example (The Left, Economy, Politics)

What we want from Obama is not social transformation. We want measures to minimize the suffering of people right now.

Immanuel Wallerstein
Rising to the Occasion (The Left, Economy, Politics)

The capitalists who have run things so far have forfeited all trust and respect. So what will we do now? A Nation Forum.

Barbara Ehrenreich and Bill Fletcher Jr.
Auguries in the Dawn of Obama-Time (Executive Branch, The Left, Politics)

At almost every level, his choices of people and policy have been calibrated to appease the establishment.

Alexander Cockburn
Beyond Hope (Executive Branch, The Left, Politics)

When the government is organizing a movement to back the government in the name of progressive politics, something is seriously awry.

Gary Younge
Ten Goals for Obama's First 1,460 Days (The Left, Politics)

Following the values of progressive patriotism, here's an ambitious agenda for the forty-fourth president's first--and second--terms.

Mark Green
Remembering RFK: 40 Years Later (The Left, Politics)

A tribute to a true progressive, tragically silenced forty years ago this week.

The Glaser Progress Foundation
Who Are They Calling Elitist? (Conservatives and the American Right, Cultural Criticism and Analysis, The Left, Politics)

Why do conservatives continue to feel oppressed by the "liberal elite"?

Eric Alterman
Progressives for Obama (Barack Obama, Presidential Election 2008, The Left, Politics)

The future has arrived: progressives can make a difference to ensure Barack Obama is our next President.

Tom Hayden, Barbara Ehrenreich, Bill Fletcher Jr. and Danny Glover
Beyond the New Deal (Cultural Criticism and Analysis, History, The Left, Politics)

How refreshing it would be if a presidential candidate reminded us of the experience of the New Deal.

Howard Zinn
FDR's Democratic Propaganda (Cultural Criticism and Analysis, Humor, The Left, Politics)

Today's progressive message-makers can learn a lot from Franklin Roosevelt's homey "fireside chats."

Stephen Duncombe

Blogs

Giving Dennis Kucinich His Due
Katrina vanden Heuvel

Losing Kucinich is a loss for America. 

March 13, 2012
Occupy New Hampshire Counters the Republican Narrative
Ben Adler

The Occupy movement is following Republican candidates in New Hampshire, raising awareness of their records and asking important questions. 

January 9, 2012
The Myth of the Self-Loathing Liberal
Katrina vanden Heuvel

Jonathan Chait has it backwards: Progressives' problem has been too much loyalty to the President, not too little.

November 30, 2011
Wisconsin Recall Drive Surpasses 300,000 Signatures as Rural Counties Turn Against Anti-Labor Governor
John Nichols

Labor and community activists need 540,000 signatures to recall Walker. After 2 weeks (and with 6 weeks to go) they're more than half way to their goal.

November 28, 2011
Katrina vanden Huevel on NPR's Talk of the Nation: What happened to the political left?
Nation in the News

What happened that has led to the conservatives' dominance in the political debate in the country at a time of crisis? What happened to the political left?

September 28, 2011
Thousands Cheer Bernie Sanders's Appeal to Obama, Super-Committee: Make the Rich Pay for Deficits
John Nichols

Headlining Wisconsin's Fighting Bob Fest, the largest annual gathering of progressives in the country, the Vermont senator drew the loudest cheers for a stern warning to the president and his colleagues on the congressional “super-committee” that has been charged with deficit reduction: don’t balance budgets on the backs of working Americans. Make the rich pay their fair share.

September 18, 2011
Russ Feingold Chooses the Role of 'Citizen,' Rejecting 2012 Runs for State, National Posts
John Nichols

Instead, of making a comeback bid for office, Russ Finegold will be organizing and campaign as a citizen with much to say about foreign policy and the need for sweeping reform of our politics.

August 19, 2011
Bernie Sanders Talks Up Primary Challenge to Obama as 'a Good Idea for Our Democracy and for the Democratic Party'
John Nichols

The Vermont independent is not running for president, but he says it’s time “that people start asking the president some hard questions about why he said one thing during his previous campaign, and is doing another thing today on Social Security, on Medicare.”

August 13, 2011
Obama's Compromising Stirs Talk of Dem Primary Challenge; Bernie Sanders Says It's a 'Good Idea'
John Nichols

New polling suggests liberal disapproval of Obama has spiked since he began talking of putting Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security “on the table” in negotiations with GOP. Vermont Senator says of the moment: “I think it would do this country a good deal of service if people started thinking about candidates out there to begin contrasting a progressive agenda as opposed to what Obama believes he’s doing.”

July 23, 2011
Elizabeth Warren Says She'll Consider Massachusetts Senate Run
John Nichols

Massachusetts might well elect Warren to the Senate, where she could lead the fight for reform.

July 19, 2011
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