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- Amnesia on the Death of Reconstruction
I am going to pick on Brad Delong precisely because he is a brilliant and well-educated academic-- and his list...
- So What if Mitt Wants A Person of Faith as President?
There's a bit of a furor that Mitt Romney declared:We need to have a person of fiath lead the country.So...
- States Taking Action Against Iraq Escalation
So the New York Times is covering the story that resolutions denouncing Bush's Iraq Escalation have been introduced in over...
- Wal-Mart Doing Good for Environment
Seriously. This initiative by Wal-Mart to promote energy-saving light bulbs is a major environmental initiative. "Compact fluorescent" bulbs fit in...
- Dems' Stupid Positioning on Minimum Wage
As a followup to discussing why politicians need to appeal to a broad consensus, it's worth emphasizing that it's easier...
- Obama and the Need for Large Progressive Majorities
I've been as disappointed as many other progressive bloggers with Obama's bad votes on tort reform and seeming trimming of...
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- Ecuador Goes Left
Another country moves left-- whatever you want to say, Bush has been very good for reviving the global left, especially...
- Building a Progressive Majority in the Statehouses
The Progressive States Network today rolled out its legislative agenda for the 2007 session and is looking to promote it...
- The Future Belongs to US
While the actual results seem razer-thin in this election, I'll be bold and argue that they are part of a...
- Pro-Labor "Conservative Democrats"
One more nail in the narrative that the victory of a few moderate Democrats means this election is really a...
- The Collapse of Tax Cut Politics
You can check out Progressive States rundown of progressive successes in the states on Tuesday, but I want to focus...
- A Good Night for Progressives
Let's be clear-- this wasn't just a good night for Democrats. It was a good night for progressives, and no...
- Labor Cold War Ends - New International Labor Federation
At the dawn of the Cold War, the international union movement divided up between the ICFTU, dominated by US and Western European unions, and the World Confederation of Labor, largely allied with the Soviet Union. It's taken a decade and a half, but the irrelevancy of that division will end today as the two federations merge-- bringing together 241 labor organizations from 156 countries representing 190 million workers. The new International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is a good step for a labor movement looking to globalize itself in the taking on global capital power....
- Immigrant Poor Send More Foreign Aid than US Govt
The United States government spends less money on foreign aid as a percentage of its budget than almost any other...
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