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The Secret Donors Behind the Center for American Progress and Other Think Tanks
Ken Silverstein
Washington institutions esteemed for their independent scholarship don't disclose donations from corporations and foreign governments.

Tumblr Is Worth $1.1 Billion to Yahoo for One Reason: You
Robert Scheer
Yahoo isn't buying the blogging service for it's profitability. It's buying it for the advertising possibilities.

How America Became a Third World Country
Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford
By 2023, what will we make of 2013?

Why Prosecuting Ariel Castro for Murder Won't Prevent Violence Against Pregnant Women
Lynn Paltrow
Whatever their intent, laws equating pregnancy termination with murder are used against pregnant women, not for them.

Chicago Teachers Union Overwhelmingly Re-Elects Karen Lewis's CORE Caucus
Micah Uetricht
CORE’s victory is a boost to social movement unionism—and a model for other unions around the country.

The Case for Hope
Rebecca Solnit
It’s a starting point: not the tinder or the blaze but a match, a belief in possibility.

I Knew J. Billington Bulworth and You, Mr. President, Are No Bulworth
Jeremy Pikser
Obama knows his job much too well to say it out loud, like Warren Beatty’s character did.

Why Christians Like Me Should Listen to Critiques of Evangelical Adoption
Melanie Springer Mock
I’d like to believe my sons’ best life is in my home, and not with their first families. But Christians committed to justice need to remember we are not entitled to other people’s children.

Cashing In On Breast Cancer Awareness
Rose-Ellen Lessy
In the wake of Angelina Jolie’s well-intentioned exhortation for “every woman” to explore their risk of breast cancer, one company stands to make a staggering profit.

The New Pay-As-You-Go Landscape of American 'Democracy'
Andy Kroll
In this banana republic, billionaires don't need to go to the Cayman Islands to park their savings.

Campaign for America's Future

Senator Warren's Bill Will Ease Tuition Burden On Students

CEOs Pushing Austerity Enjoy Taxpayer-Subsidized Pay

Campaign for America's Future and Allies Deliver More than Two Million Petition Signatures to the White House

Cutting Social Security Benefits is Wrong Policy and Dumb Politics

Jobs Report Shows "Little Change" at a Time of Mass Unemployment

The Rising American Electorate Sinking Together

Why Obama's Legacy Does Not Need a Grand Bargain

The Campaign for America's Future Enthusiastically Endorses the CPC's Back-to-Work Budget

Activists Ask Congress to Repeal the Sequester

New Video Exposes Parent Trigger Campaign

The Democratic Strategist

Cook: GOP Obsesses About 'Scandals,' as Public Yawns
If you have noticed a growing disconnect between the loudly trumpeted priorities of Republican political leaders and the reality-based community, you are in pretty good company. Charlie Cook's National Journal post, "Republicans' Hatred of Obama Blinds Them to ...

Boy I'm glad Chris Cillizza and Sean Sullivan weren't writing in the early 60's. I tremble to think how they would have covered Martin Luther King.
In a new piece titled provocatively titled, "Obama the Uniter? Not Really", the Washington Post's resident dispensers of inside the beltway common wisdom have once again managed to concede the reality of Republican extremism as the source ...

Jarman: Index Shows 'Most Vulnerable House Members'
David Jarman has an insightful post, "The most vulnerable House members in 2014, in two charts" up at Daily Kos. Jarman has developed a "House Vulnerability Index," which "proved to be quite accurate" overall in 2010 and hinted ...

Political Strategy Notes
Steve Chapman of Real Clear Politics has the best line yet said about the Republicans likening the current I.R.S. dust-up to the Nixon's Administration's abuse of the agency to harass political adversaries: "...Equating the two is like concluding ...

Voting Rights Battles in the States Merit More Attention
Noting that interest in fighting voter suppression seems to have dropped off after the November elections, Abby Rapoport's "Five Voting Fights You'll Care About Come Election Time" at The American Prospect can help get you up to speed ...

Brownstein: How 'Scandals' May Backfire on GOP
It's quite possible, writes Ronald Brownstein at The National Journal, that the Benghazi and I.R.S. 'scandals,' along with the Administration's seizure of journalists' phone records may serve the GOP cause of tying up Washington in investigations. But it's ...

The Washington Post has a very solid editorial about the so-called "scandals" today. It's a damn shame that the Post's headline writers decided to seriously distort what it says.

The Washington Post has an editorial today that takes a clear stance on the deeply bogus nature of the current GOP attacks on Obama. The title - "Obama a new Nixon? Oh get serious" -- very accurately suggests ...

Political Strategy Notes - Quick Plug Edition
The labor movement could use a little good news -- and they get it from Alana Semuel's L.A. Times article "White-collar workers are turning to labor unions."