Progressives

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Are Progressives in Denial About Climate Change?

Brendan Smith | Posted 06.10.2011 | Green

Read More: Global Warming, Climate Change, Progressives, Politics, Environmental Justice, Climate, Climate Justice, Environment, Environmentalism, Climate Change Denial, Climate Crisis, Green News

Climate change is not just another "issue." The earth is in the midst of a radical shift that will affect our country and society more severely than the Civil War, the Great Depression or World War II.

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Five Progressive Tax Increases That Washington Won't Talk About

Daniel Marans | Posted 06.07.2011 | Politics

Read More: Progressive Taxation, Taxes, Social Security, Federal Budget Deficit, Progressives, Payroll Tax, Bush Tax Cuts, Politics News

Did you know that millionaires and billionaires only make payroll tax contributions on earnings of $106,800? If you didn't, it could be because you are among the 94% of American earners who make less than that amount.

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David Foster a BMI Icon

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment

Read More: Krxa, Long Beach, Billboard, Good Charlotte, Kfi, Charles Karel Bouley, Karel, Kgo, Progressives, Kjrb, Los Angeles, Liberal, Advocate, Huffingtonpost, Gay, Kara DioGuardi, Collbie Calliat, Bmi, Andrew Howard, Kyns, David Foster, OC Blade, Radio, Kkgn, Kudo, Talk, Knx, San Francisco, Entertainment News

The BMI Pop Music Awards, while star studded, may not be handing out awards to household names unless you're one of the people that hit the "Get Info" button on the track or are an aspiring singer/songwriter.

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Was Rahm Right About Progressives?

Steven Hill | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Electoral Reform, Progressives, Universal Voter Registration, Instant Runoff Voting, Progressive Movement, Barack Obama, Political Reform, Rahm Emmanuel, Germany, Direct Election of the President, Steven Hill, Public Financing of Campaigns, Proportional Representation, Free Media Time, Green Party, Politics News

In 2009, then-White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel infamously said that progressives are "fucking retarded." Lately I've begun to think he was corr...

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Matt Damon Is Right

Brent Budowsky | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Matt Damon, Barack Obama, Professional Left, Progressives, Politics News

As President Obama returns to Hollywood in search of campaign dough from the "Hollywood progressives," it is a moment to praise Matt Damon, who speaks...

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Why Liberals Should See (and Like) Atlas Shrugged Part 1

Michael Shermer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment

Read More: Tea Party, Liberals, Civil Rights, Progressives, Capitalism, Race, Feminism, Atlas Shrugged Part 1, Dagny Taggert, Conservatives, Ayn Rand, Liberalism, Slavery, Atlas Shrugged Movie, Racism, Atlas Shrugged, Libertarians, Entertainment News

Liberals should find much to respect and admire in Ayn Rand, who was a champion of individual rights, was outspoken against racism and bigotry and discrimination against minorities, and most notably was way ahead of her time in championing women's rights.

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Obama's Fake Progressive Birth Certificate

Randall Amster | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Birthers, Warwire, Obama Birth Certificate, Obama Reelection, Health Care, Economy, Barack Obama, Progressives, Politics News

Obama's national origins are less problematic than his plans for the nation's future. The basic strategy of "I'm not the other guy" leaves a major question lingering in the air, namely: Who are you, then?

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Despite Polling, Progressives Still Scrambling to Win Budget Fight

Art Levine | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Social Security, Strengthen Social Security, Labor, Progressives, Obama, Medicare, Congress, Afl-Cio, Budget Cuts, Politics News

This tough questioning of Paul Ryan and the razzing he faces is hardly the sensational TV equivalent of the media-savvy Tea Party revolt agains the health care bill during the summer of 2009.

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Obama's Fiscal Policy Speech: Values, Yes. Vision, no.

Harvey J. Kaye | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Deficit, Obama, Budget, Fdr, Progressives, Gop, Politics, Politics News

Cross-posted from New Deal 2.0. It was good to hear President Obama speak bluntly of how the Bush administration took the country into two wars but c...

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In 2012, Will We Have a People's Budget or the Ryan Roadmap to Ruin?

Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva | Posted 06.07.2011 | Politics

Read More: Keith Ellison, Raul Grijalva, Congress, Paul Ryan, Budget, 2012, Progressives, 2012 Budget, Ryan Budget, Government Shutdown, Paul Ryan Budget, Politics News

We support a plan that creates good-paying jobs rebuilding the roads and bridges that we cross going to work every day. The alternative, we're sorry to say, is a road we've been down before.

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Why I'm Supporting the President in 2012

Daniel Cluchey | Posted 06.05.2011 | Politics

Read More: Elections 2012, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Progressives, Barack Obama 2008, Milennials, Milennial Politics, Obama 2012, Politics News

We live in a political universe in which real progress and change are near impossibilities, where the bluster of senselessness and false piety is so overwhelming that even standing still is an extraordinary feat.

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Reflecting on MLK Jr.'s Assassination and Current Events: Have We Learned Anything?

Ed Schultz | Posted 06.05.2011 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Chris Christie, Wisconsin, Progressives, Scott Walker, Ohio, John Kasich, Unions, Labor Unions, Civil Rights, Wisconsin Protests, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Anniversary, Martin Luther King Death, Martin Luther King Assassination, Workers Rights, Politics News

43 years ago, King gave his life fighting for the rights of 1,300 striking sanitation workers. It's a tragedy that 43 years later, our workers are still fighting for basic rights.

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Progressives Should Support Israel

Steve Sheffey | Posted 05.30.2011 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Apartheid, Steve Austria, Israel, Occupation, Steve Rothman, Progressives, World News

The progressive movement has been tarred by a vocal minority that seeks to criticize Israel at every opportunity. It's time for the progressive commun...

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On Social Security, Beware the False Progressives

Daniel Marans | Posted 05.28.2011 | Politics

Read More: Reform, Poverty, Social Security, Wall Street, Budget, Progressives, Gop, Social Security Reform, Politics News

Halloween has come early this year for Wall Street Democrats, who are busy disguising their plans to gut Social Security as "progressive."

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A Platform to Stand On

Mike Lux | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, History, Social Security, Republican Party, Progressives, Abortion, Va, Medicaid, Medicare, Healthcare, Politics News

The health care law is a rickety platform because of its construction flaws, and there are plenty of folks trying hard to burn it down. But it is a platform that can be repaired and expanded.

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Making History

Elbert Ventura | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Progressives, Politics News

We live in an age of what historian Thomas Frank calls instant forgetting. It's not just that we forget things -- it's that we seem to replace the past with inexplicable fictions.

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The Revolution...Sorry, Transformation Starts Now!

Steven G. Brant | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

I predict the naked power grab by the Republican party in Wisconsin will go down in history as the second "shot heard 'round the world" which began the second American Revolution. Except it won't be a revolution. It will be a transformation.

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I Love DFA and ActBlue: Why I'm Not Sending a Donation to Help Run the Ad in Wisconsin

Frank Dwyer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Actblue, Change, Centrists, Hope, Progressives, Dfa, Audacity, Blue Dogs, Republicans, Barack Obama, Wisconsin Protests, Politics News

I've just received an email solicitation from Charles Chamberlain at DFA, asking that I contribute to help keep the ActBlue ad running in Wisconsin. ...

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Progressives and the 'Good Child' DIlemma

James Block | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Raising Children, Culture Wars, Parent-Child Relationships, Progressive-Social-Reform, Rise-of-the-New-Right, Liberals, Progressives, Politics News

Progressive child rearing techniques provided a seamless meshing of individualism and social adaptability. Individuals experienced their own freedom and yet conformed to social norms.

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In The Public Interest: Rail -- Neither Right nor Left but Forward

Tony Dutzik | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Gas Prices, Conservatives, George Will, Liberals, Progressives, Environment, Jobs, High Speed Rail, Obama State of the Union, Public Transit, U.S. PIRG, Newsweek, Barack Obama, Transportation, Politics News

The dangers of Will's thinking are apparent, since it leads us away from viewing transportation decisions as being about finding the best way to move people at the lowest overall cost to society.

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Remembering the Civil War in the Tea Party Age

Doug Kendall | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Abraham Lincoln, Tea Party, Whole Constitution, Progressives, Politics News

Conservatives and liberals alike should celebrate the Constitution of our time, not yearn for days long past when our Constitution, and our Union, were far less perfect.

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Where Are the Wisconsin-Style Protests Against the Congressional Republicans?

Bob Cesca | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Deficit, Federal Budget Deficit, Progressives, Scott Walker, Hurricane Katrina, Governor Scott Walker, Senate Democrats, Progressive Movement, Democrats, House Republicans, Austerity, Wisconsin Protests, Republicans, Politics News

Without any real opposition aimed at the slash-and-burn insanity on Capitol Hill, it might already be too late and the budgets for some of the most critical government services are nearly beyond resuscitation.

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Draft Moderate Manifesto Part 1

Sheri and Allan Rivlin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

In election after election, the same opportunity remains unrealized -- the possibility that either extreme could unite with the center to exclude the most extreme policies of the other.

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Time for a Progressive Primary?

Allan Abramson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Primary, Federal Budget Deficit, Middle East, Liberals, Economy, Budget, Progressives, President Obama, Iraq, Afghanistan, Constitution, Barack Obama, Politics News

President Obama continues to disappoint. The occupation of Afghanistan continues with no end in sight, a U.S.-installed leader who does not lead, and ...

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When FDR Recruited Thomas Paine to the Struggle for the Four Freedoms

Harvey J. Kaye | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Thomas Paine, Fdr, American Revolution, Greatest Generation, Conservatives, American History, Progressives, Freedom, February 23, Democracy, World War II, Politics News

Today the political right does its best to lay claim to the revolutionary patriot Thomas Paine and to harness him to the cause of constraining democra...

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