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Towards Health Care For All
Starting with Monday's panel, "Health Care For All: The Plan to Get There," during Take Back America we're talking about health care. Every day. It's obvious why. Health care is a concern for every family in America — those with insurance and the 47 million...
"This Is Our Time": Progressives Poised to Win
A rattled Wall Street. Families imperiled by record foreclosures and rising unemployment. A stymied Congress. A five-year war in Iraq that continues to take lives. The Take Back America conference launched Monday amid some of the most dismal headlines in years, and...
A Well Oiled Insurgency
In a previous post last week I alluded to the news that right now Iraq has something we haven't had in a while: a budget surplus. Apparently, oil revenues are so good that Iraq is rolling in oil money. But even though that surplus isn't going to pay for the basic...
Weekend Watchdog
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....
The Society of the Owned, Pt. 6: Just Drop Off the Key
When free market fundamentalists like those in the Bush administration start at federal government action, after two interest rate cuts didn't do much to stall stop the economy sliding into recession, you know things have reached a crisis point. By the time they start...
Greedy Troglodytes Attack Teachers
What is it about teachers that reactionaries don't like? Maybe it's because an educated electorate poses a threat to those who seek to control the public—"Danger: Educated Union Member" is one of our favorite phrases—and so teachers pose an easy target for the...
Conservatism Is Dying
Modern conservatism is dying. There’s still an election to be held, but conservatism as we’ve known it since Ronald Reagan is failing—ground down in the desert of Iraq, drowned in the floods of Hurricane Katrina, foreclosed by the housing crisis and poisoned by...
Take Back America? Yes We Can, If...
On the eve of this year's "Take Back America" conference, that phrase is no longer a rallying cry to a distant goal—it is something that now, more than ever, progressives can concretely and imminently accomplish. The signs are everywhere, according to the report the...
Hiding (From) The Truth
So, say you're the Bush administration. If you've invaded a country and launched an occupation that's cost thousands of American lives, untold Iraqi lives, and shattered others, and left some damaged beyond repair, what do you do if — after pouring over 600,000...
Learning From the Cultural Conservatives, Part III: Taking It To The Street
Part I Part II The conservative worldview has succeeded so wildly -- and is still holding such tenacious sway over the ways Americans approach their current stack of problems -- because the conservatives started out 30 years ago with a focused plan that put promoting...
