by Sara Robinson | Feb 3, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision
In January 2011, I presented a futures research project to the Progressive Caucus in Congress, then the largest of all the caucuses in that body. The report, Progressives 2040 — which was sponsored by ProgressiveCongress.org and published by Demos — analyzed a large...
by Sara Robinson | Oct 14, 2011 | Blog
On Sunday, February 13, 2011, a few hundred union members gathered at the state capitol building in Madison, WI to confront Gov. Scott Walker over a bill designed to strip public employees of their right to organize. The next day, they were joined by over a thousand...
by Sara Robinson | Oct 4, 2011 | Blog
How do we talk about the American Dream? And is this a story Americans are ready to hear? According to communications experts Drew Westen and Celinda Lake, they're beyond ready to hear it; in fact, they've been waiting for years for progressives to speak to them with...
by Sara Robinson | Nov 23, 2010 | Blog
Progressives have suspected for years that working- and middle-class Americans vote for the GOP because they have a deeply unrealistic idea about their real chances of becoming wealthy. We've joked that working stiffs vote for tax cuts and other goodies for the rich...
by Sara Robinson | Nov 11, 2010 | Blog
If last Tuesday showed us anything, it's this: We are not going to get America back on the right road -- the one that leads to a progressive, just, carbon-free, equal-opportunity future -- by political means alone. That was an illusion, and it's time to give it up. We...
