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In Our Orbit: Dean's Way (US Politics, The Left)

Ari Berman's Herding Donkeys shows how Howard Dean's unsuccessful bid for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination was the foundation for Barack Obama's victory in 2008.

Kate Murphy
Moving Forward (Activism, Citizens United, The Left)

Why progressives need to own Obama's achievements—and build a movement to pressure him to do more.

Gara LaMarche and Deepak Bhargava
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Who's Afraid of Progressive Power? (The Left, Third Party Politics)

The Working Families Party faces down the corporate backlash.

Alyssa Katz
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Herding Donkeys (Activism, The Left)

Grassroots activists and Beltway insiders are fighting for the soul of Obama's Democratic Party.

Ari Berman
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Nation Conversations: Richard Trumka on Labor's Challenges (Labor Organizing and Activism, Unions, The Left)

A talk with AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka on the state of the labor movement and plans for the future.

The Nation
Russ Feingold, the Senate's True Maverick (Are Republicans and Democrats the Same?, Senate, The Left)

He's now in the fight of his life.

John Nichols
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Obama's Forgotten Base (Barack Obama, Campaigns and Elections, The Left, Economy)

The tragic irony of this political moment: the people with the most faith in Obama are the hardest hit by the economic disaster, and this brute fact is driving the enthusiasm gap.

Christopher Hayes
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The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century (50 Progressives, Social Justice, Activism, History, The Left)

The radical ideas of one generation become the common sense of the next. Here, Peter Dreier honors the people who moved progressive ideas in America from the marginal to the mainstream.

Peter Dreier
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The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century (Civil Rights Activism, Activism, The Left)

The radical ideas of one generation become the common sense of the next. Here, Peter Dreier honors the people who moved progressive ideas in America from the marginal to the mainstream.

Peter Dreier
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Eyes on the Prize (Activism, Media Analysis, Conservatives and the American Right, The Left)

Let's get a grip: the left isn't going to win every 24-hour news cycle. And that shouldn't be our goal.

The Editors
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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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