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Outside the DNC, Steve Clemons of the New America Foundation and The Washington Note moderated a foreign policy discussion provocatively titled, "Will the Next President Make the Middle East Irrelevant?" The event brought together an impressive array of speakers:...

There they were, billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens, Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope and Center for American Progress president John Podesta on the same stage at The Big Tent in Denver on Wednesday, in near-perfect harmony. Something’s wrong here. And indeed...

Paul Krugman, the columnist for The New York Times, told me in an interview here in Denver that getting a universal health care plan enacted will be one of he most important keys to creating a progressive moment on a whole host of issues. His reasoning is this: “If...

In my interview with William McNary, president of USAction, he instructs us to ask ourselves, do we want "progressive change, small change or chump change?" And, he lays out a comprehensive progressive vision for a "Next New Deal" that invests in people, from day care...

This was the Campaign for America's Future's Big Afternoon at the Big Tent. CAF took over the Digg Stage (the entire upstairs floor of The Big Tent) for a series of four panels addressing some of the Big Questions we wrestle with here. One of the highlights for me was...

Following his Take Back America panel discussion, I caught up with MoveOn.org's Eli Pariser to find out what he believes progressives should be doing between now and November, to build the mandate for change.

It's been a jam-packed morning here in the Big Tent, as we wait for Take Back America to kickoff in the afternoon. Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colo.) talked to me about how attitudes towards active government are changing in Colorado and the West. MSNBC's Willie Geist told us...

Reporters always complain that there is no news at political conventions any more. Perhaps. But there is news outside the convention hall: the loud buzz of progressive activity, organizing and mobilizing around big issues, hundreds of decibels louder than at the...

Seventy years ago this month, New York State’s political leaders gathered in Albany to confront an economic and social challenge, the Great Depression, that makes today’s situation look rosy. Representing urban, rural, and suburban communities across the state, the...