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In This Election, It's the Economy--and Race
The issue of race in this presidential campaign is one we talk around, or whisper about, or don't discuss publicly at all. Or, as with some McCain supporters, the issue of race is used as an ugly bludgeon in the spirit of Jim Crow. But AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer...
The FireDogLake Story: What It Means for the Netroots
AJ from FireDogLake.com talks about the FireDogStory from single blogger to business operation, and what that means for the future of the netroots.
Building Progressive Media Infastructure: Interview with Sam Seder
AirAmerica.com's Sam Seder kicks off our series of webcam interviews, looking back on how progressive media infrastructure has grown over the past four years.
Taking The Progressive Moment to Denver
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This Week In "Insurance Company Rules": Forced To Raise Funds For Sick Friends
Insurance Company Rules were in full effect this week, from New Orleans to Pennsylvania to The Hamptons, as communities rallied to raise funds for ill friends. AmeriCorps volunteer Mark Smith has a hospital bill of more than $90,000, after relocating to help rebuild...
Can You Forget What Homes You Own And Still Manage The Economy?
The big political news today (so far) is that Sen. John McCain couldn't remember the number of homes he owns.. (Getting a little less attention, his staff then told the Politico that the answer is four, when in fact, it is at least seven and as many as ten.) Democrats...
Acts of Creative Destruction: Rebuilding America for the 21st Century
This blog has been covering the shameful collapse of America's infrastructure on almost a weekly basis, so it should come as no surprise to even our most casual readers that the physical structures and systems that support our entire way of life are in serious...
Conservatives Don't Believe In Energy Independence. Just Ask 'Em.
In recent posts, I've shown that conservative talk of an "All of the Above" energy policy flies in the face of repeated conservative actions to defeat anything that significantly i
The Missed "Clinton Moment" and "Deval Moment"
Robert Borosage has asked us on this site—bloggers and commenters alike—to explore "How Do We Seize The Obama Moment?" and substantively advance a bold progressive agenda, after laying out an "inside-outside" activist strategy with Katrina vanden Heuvel in The Nation....
A Call For 'Revolution' To Counter The Middle-Class Collapse
On "Meet the Bloggers" Friday, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said that there is a "collapse" of the middle class and that nothing short of a revolution will be needed to reverse it. "What we really need is a political revolution in this country," Sanders said, beginning...
