This Week: After Newtown. Plus: 2012’s Progressive Honor Roll This Week: After Newtown. Plus: 2012’s Progressive Honor Roll
Coverage of Newtown, the great Walmart walkout and 2012's most valuable progressives.
Dec 22, 2012 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Progressive Honor Roll of 2012 The Progressive Honor Roll of 2012
From Bernie Sanders to Boots Riley, from Marcia Moody to Jane McAlevey, we celebrate nineteen activists, movements and politicians.
Dec 19, 2012 / Feature / John Nichols
How to Save the Democratic Party How to Save the Democratic Party
The time has come for a showdown between the reformist and accommodationist wings of the party.
Dec 5, 2012 / Feature / L.R. Runner
How to Save the Democratic Party: Replies How to Save the Democratic Party: Replies
We need to intensify the engagement of grassroots Democrats with progressive ideals.
Dec 5, 2012 / Feature / Various Contributors
The Secret of Bernie Sanders’s Success The Secret of Bernie Sanders’s Success
As he takes the lead in the fight to defend Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, the senator has much to teach progressives about how to do politics right.
Dec 5, 2012 / Blog / John Nichols
Is Paul Ryan Making Americans More Favorably Inclined Toward Socialism? Is Paul Ryan Making Americans More Favorably Inclined Toward Socialism?
After all the Republican ranting about socialism, a new poll finds Americans have more positive feelings about… socialism.
Dec 2, 2012 / Blog / John Nichols
Governor Cuomo’s Choice Governor Cuomo’s Choice
Obstruction has ruled in Albany for too long. The governor must push for a Democratic majority in the New York State Senate.
Nov 27, 2012 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Budget Deal We Deserve The Budget Deal We Deserve
The Congressional Progressive Caucus is standing up to austerity hawks, promoting a “Deal For All” that protects social spending and invests in real growth.
Nov 19, 2012 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Obama Won. Now It’s Time to Change the System Obama Won. Now It’s Time to Change the System
In the next four years—and beyond—progressives must create the political space for the president to represent the majority of Americans.
Nov 14, 2012 / Feature / Peter Dreier and Donald Cohen
Katrina vanden Heuvel: President Obama and the Rising American Electorate Katrina vanden Heuvel: President Obama and the Rising American Electorate
A record turnout for non–white male voters gave the president a mandate to champion.
Nov 9, 2012 / Nation in the News / Press Room