| Center for American Progress |
Making Progress: 10 Years of Ideas, Action, and Change
Today, as the Center for American Progress celebrates its 10th anniversary, we look at the impact CAP has had on the country. ... | The Top 13 Women of Color to Watch in 2013
These 13 women of color are leaving their mark on everything from politics to entertainment to health. ... | Martin Unchained: Radical Reformer, Nonviolent Militant
This Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we should remember the true Dr. King and free him from a reconstructed history that never was. ... | Democracy, Democratic Governance, and Transparent Institutions in the American Interest
The Center for American Progress and the Center for Strategic and International Studies have collaborated to promote progressive and democratic governance around the world. ... | Comparing Conservative and Progressive Investment in America's Youth
Conservative groups' funding advantage has helped the right communicate with young Americans and develop leaders despite the fundamental issue-area differences between conservative movement fundamentals and the Millennial generation. ... | 3 Lessons the 2012 Election Taught Us About the Progressive Coalition
Ruy Teixeira explains why the 2008 presidential outcome was not a fluke and how the progressive coalition has made an impact in 2012. ... | The Obama Coalition in the 2012 Election and Beyond
With President Obama's re-election, a progressive multiracial, multiethnic, and cross-class coalition has clearly emerged, albeit in an early and tenuous stage. ... | Articulating the Future for Progressivism
Authors Bill Ivey and Joe Romm discuss the power of words in politics at a recent Progressivism on Tap event. ... |
| The Nation. |
On Israel-Palestine and BDS: Chomsky Replies
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky responds to Yousef Munayyer, MJ Rosenberg, Nadia Ben-Youssef, Ran Greenstein and the Organizing Collective of the US Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel.
| How America Changed the Meaning of War
Jonathan Schell
After 9/11, the US invented a new kind of borderless, pre-emptive warfare, plunging the world into an endless cycle of violence.
| Ukraine: Anvil of the New Cold War
Tom Hayden
To understand the present crisis over downed Malaysian flight MH17, we need to look at the roots of the new Cold War.
| The Future Is Not Ours, and Neither Is the Past
Tom Engelhardt
At age 70, a writer reflects on the so-called ‘American Century’—and the world it wrought.
| Massacre in Shejaiya
Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Nearly ninety people were killed by Israeli forces today, most of them in one of Gaza’s poorest and most crowded neighborhoods.
| Eight Members of One Family Killed in Their Home as Israel's Attack on Gaza Continues
Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Over 77 percent of the dead are civilians. Every day brings more stories of incomprehensible anguish and loss.
| Could the Tragedy of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 Have Been Avoided?
James Carden
Western sanctions against Russia have done nothing to curb Putin’s support for rebels in eastern Ukraine, and may in fact have turned a regional dispute into an international crisis.
| Why a Win for Anti-Choice Protesters Might Also Strengthen Workers' Rights to Strike
Moshe Z. Marvit
The Roberts court has expanded First Amendment protections to such an extent that strikes, pickets, and boycotts should be protected as free speech.
| Death and Destruction in Gaza as Israel Launches Ground Invasion
Sharif Abdel Kouddous
More than 240 Palestinians have been killed in air strikes, nearly 77 percent of them civilians, including almost fifty children.
| The Iraq That Washington Built
Dahr Jamail
“Fear, arbitrary arrests, indiscriminate bombing, killing, an uncertain future—this is the new democratic Iraq.”
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| The Democratic Strategist |
The Difference in the Senate Battleground? Economic Agenda for Working Women and Men
From Democracy Corps and Womenms Voices Womens Vote Action Fund:
A new poll of the 12 states where control of the Senate is being contested, fielded by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner for Democracy Corps and Women's Voice Women Vote Action ... | Creamer: United Airlines' Outsourcing Jobs to Company That Pays Near-Poverty Wages Is Shameful
The following article by Democratic strategist Robert Creamer, author of "Stand Up Straight: How Progressives Can Win," is cross-posted from HuffPo:
On October 1, United Airlines is planning to outsource 630 gate agent jobs at 12 airports to ... | Political Strategy Notes
Hats off for the top 'regular guy' actor James Garner -- also a lifelong Democrat who supported the campaigns of "Dennis Kucinich (Congress in 2002), Richard Gephardt, John Kerry, Barbara Boxer, and various Democratic committees and groups," according to ... | Will Black Voters Make History in November?
Amid new reports that African Americans had a higher turnout percentage than their white counterparts in the 2012 general election, Nate Cohn writes that "Black Southern Voters, Poised to Play a Historic Role" at NYT's the Upshot. Cohn ... | Beutler: Senate Takeover Would Bring GOP Problems
In his post "The 2014 Midterms Matter More Than You Think: Winning the Senate would finally put Republicans on the spot" at The New Republic, Brian Beutler explains why a GOP takeover of the upper house would burden ... | GOP Foreign Policy Rift Is For Real
We hear so many misleading reports about "civil war in the Republican Party" that it's sometimes hard to see the real thing when it appears. But while Republican divisions over domestic policy are usually over strategy and tactics rather ... | Political Strategy Notes
Heather Digby Parton's Salon post, "GOP's sales-pitch swindle: Why Dems need to push Obamacare harder: When Republicans do something, they sell it big time. With the left tentative on the ACA, here's what's at stake" addresses a chronic ... | Two Paths to a Blue South
Do give a read to Jenee Desmond-Harris's post, "Will White Voters in the Black Belt Ever Get Out of Their Own Way?" at The Root. It's a great title, which encapsulates the political neurosis of too many white ... |
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