by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 19, 2007 | Blog
The three freshman progressive senators who participated in the "kitchen table" discussion at Take Back America Monday night all said they would support a strategy of not backing down from efforts to end the war in Iraq in the face of veto threats and political...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 18, 2007 | Blog
Freshman congressman Keith Ellison took on one of the movement’s most serious problems when he told progressives not to allow their frustrations with Congress’ inability to stop the war in Iraq to divide them. “You might be mad at the Congress because they didn’t and...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 17, 2007 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
Isaiah J. Poole is the executive editor of TomPaine.com. We’ve made some changes to TomPaine.com that will make it faster-paced, more interactive and more compelling. You will notice that we have elevated our editor’s blog to be the centerpiece of our...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 13, 2007 | Blog
There is more ammunition progressive leaders can use to push for a bold policy agenda in a new report by the Campaign for America's Future and Media Matters for America. That report says what we know instinctively but too many in Congress and in the political...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 4, 2007 | Blog
Jacob S. Hacker, the Yale University professor who has crafted a health-care-for-all plan that he has discussed with several Democratic presidential candidates, has taken a close look at the health care proposal released last week by Sen. Barack Obama and concludes...
