Building a Movement by Offering Solutions Building a Movement by Offering Solutions
The left's hope lies in reviving the tradition of speaking in credible, urgent, moral ways about policies to aid the great majority.
Aug 12, 2010 / Feature / Michael Kazin
Disdain Will Reign if You Nip Off to Spain Disdain Will Reign if You Nip Off to Spain
With apologies to Lerner and Loewe.
Aug 12, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Corpo-Obama-Geithner-Petraeus State The Corpo-Obama-Geithner-Petraeus State
The role of the left should not be to uphold or defend a government increasingly at odds with the interests of the people, but to change it, drastically and from the ground up.
Aug 12, 2010 / Feature / Barbara Ehrenreich
Ending the Permanent Campaign Ending the Permanent Campaign
When politics is driven by the need to turn out your base and policy is dominated by the desire to cater to that base, our baser instincts come to the fore.
Aug 12, 2010 / Feature / Norman Ornstein
Obama, The Right and Race Obama, The Right and Race
Missing from Alterman's historical analysis is the Republicans' canny exploitation of racial resentment.
Aug 12, 2010 / Feature / Salim Muwakkil
Obama’s Healthcare Achievements Obama’s Healthcare Achievements
Let's give the president credit for pushing through the most far-reaching and economically redistributive social legislation since the New Deal.
Aug 12, 2010 / Feature / Theda Skocpol
There Will Be No Silver Bullet There Will Be No Silver Bullet
The forces stacked against progressive change must not prevent the left from continually fighting for new levels of democratization and social justice.
Aug 12, 2010 / Feature / Chris Bowers
Noted. Noted.
Eyal Press on the passing of Tony Judt; Ari Berman on the movement against Citizens United
Aug 12, 2010 / Various Contributors
No, the Empire Doesn’t Always Win No, the Empire Doesn’t Always Win
After seven years, America's occupation of Iraq is a failure.
Aug 12, 2010 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Ground Zero for Free Speech Ground Zero for Free Speech
The proposed cultural center in lower Manhattan has become the latest target of the right's all-out attack on the First Amendment.
Aug 12, 2010 / Column / Katha Pollitt