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Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We'll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked. We'll post a wrap-up here on the blog on Monday.

Join the book club for David Sirota's upcoming book, The Uprising, due out on 5/27. more »

What would it take to build a "rainbow coalition" that unites people across race and class lines around a progressive agenda for change? Let's have a conversation. more »

Sometimes we are proud of an America that has yet to be, and that we hope will be someday. more »

Bush's actions in Israel and Saudi Arabia spotlight his twin failures in foreign policy and energy policy. more »

We're in the process of trying out some new approaches to the Weekend Watchdog. One of them is this open thread, where we hope longtime "watchdogs" and the uninitiated will engage in sorting out what questions about which issues and news items from the past week this Sunday's yet-to-be announced guests should face. more »

Just wanted to let regular readers in on a project I've been toiling away at for some time that's now coming to fruition. I am scheduled to have a piece in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine that deals with some interesting issues boiling up in key swing states. I'll have more to say about the article when it comes out, but that's all I'll say for now. more »

It is, as our co-director Robert Borosage pointed out this week, ludicrous on its face. more »

A large group of Americans favor both progressive policy and conservative philosophy. As a result, they can be persuaded to side with either progressives or conservatives, depending on how a political question is framed. The "Making Sense 2008" project is producing and distributing research-based talking points on a variety of issues that can be used to reach these persuadable voters.. more »

You know that our national infrastructure isn't in great shape. Maybe you walked to work because the subway got rained out. Maybe you've flown out of O'Hare. Maybe your car fell into a sinkhole. But it's much worse than you think. more »