Obama Youthquake: One Year Later
VideoNation : Activism & Organizing
One year after young voters and organizers helped propel President Obama to victory, are "Obama's youth" still active?
2009
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Promises Kept and Broken, One Year Later
Ari Melber : Barack Obama
There are the things the president is doing that he said he would do. These actions can draw plenty of criticism, but not genuine shock. Then there are the things he is not doing which he said he would do.
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Paranoia Strikes Deep
Michael Kazin : Conservatives & The American Right
If Obama and his progressive allies hope to defeat the latest assault on federal power, they will need to go beyond his artful ambivalence.
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The Fighting Liberal
The Editors : Ted Kennedy
Remembering Senator Edward Kennedy, who broke barriers of personality and partisanship.
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The Left Forum--Or, Why City Hall Doesn't Listen
Norman Birnbaum : Political Analysis
Whoever now governs the country (a point on which there was no agreement) is likely to remain resolutely indifferent to the message of Left Forum 2009.
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Elsie Fox: Still Here
Brian Kahn
A woman of passion and principle traces the history of the American left. At 101, she's still with us.
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A Lexicon of Disappointment
Naomi Klein : Politics
All is not well in Obamafanland, as disenchanted supporters entertain the possibility that he is not, in fact, going to save the world.
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Operation Healthcare
The Editors : Health Care Policy
Obama's hybrid approach to healthcare reform will succeed if progressives come together to support smart, incremental improvements in public programs.
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A Responsible Afghan Strategy
Lawrence J. Korb & Sean E. Duggan : War & Peace
If the United States ever wishes to leave Afghanistan, it requires a sustained engagement using all elements of national power--military, economic and diplomatic.
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Is Our Big Change Moment Coming?
Michael Lux
The time is ripe for another another progressive revolution: we only have to make it happen.
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Populists in the House
John Nichols : Congress
If the new Populist Caucus is to make a difference in Congress, its members must channel popular fury at Wall Street's amen corner on Capitol Hill.
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Follow Brazil's Example
Immanuel Wallerstein : U.S. Economy
What we want from Obama is not social transformation. We want measures to minimize the suffering of people right now.
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Rising to the Occasion
Barbara Ehrenreich & Bill Fletcher Jr. : U.S. Economy
The capitalists who have run things so far have forfeited all trust and respect. So what will we do now? A Nation Forum.
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Auguries in the Dawn of Obama-Time
Alexander Cockburn : Barack Obama Administration
At almost every level, his choices of people and policy have been calibrated to appease the establishment.
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Beyond Hope
Gary Younge : Barack Obama Administration
When the government is organizing a movement to back the government in the name of progressive politics, something is seriously awry.
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Ten Goals for Obama's First 1,460 Days
Mark Green
Following the values of progressive patriotism, here's an ambitious agenda for the forty-fourth president's first--and second--terms.
2008
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Remembering RFK: 40 Years Later
The Glaser Progress Foundation
A tribute to a true progressive, tragically silenced forty years ago this week.
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