With our national fixation on Obama and the White House, it's easy to overlook local results and the real progressive mandate.
By David Sirota Dec 6, 2008
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The National Journal releases its annual ranking of the most liberal and conservative congressmen -- but is it really accurate?
By Vincent Rossmeier
February 27, 2009
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Obama campaigned on his personality and judgment and won. Now, like it or not, he isn't beholden to anyone.
By David Sirota
November 29, 2008
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The Clintonites in his Cabinet, forgiveness for Lieberman, the creeping signs of centrism -- progressives aren't ready to panic, yet.
By Mike Madden
November 24, 2008
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Voters want you to go big and go liberal -- and not channel Clinton-style incrementalism.
By David Sirota
November 8, 2008
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Why liberals are like pagans who practiced human sacrifice.
By Alex Koppelman
December 22, 2008
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French provocateur Bernard-Henri Lévy on how the left is being destroyed by tolerance -- and why Europeans love Obama.
By Beth Arnold
October 20, 2008
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For 10-year-olds everywhere -- Little Leaguers or not -- I hope we get a better president than the incompetent we've wasted eight years of our national life on.
By Garrison Keillor
July 2, 2008
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Blame our financial woes on poor spellers, like the intellectual charity case in the White House.
By Garrison Keillor
March 26, 2008
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No Child Left Behind has plenty of flaws, but throwing it out because it's a Republican plan is morally disgusting.
By Garrison Keillor
January 30, 2008
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If the New York Times wants true diversity on its Op-Ed pages, it should hire foreign policy realists, not ideologues.
By Stephen M. Walt
January 16, 2008
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An interview with conservative pundit Jonah Goldberg, who argues that fascism is left-wing, not right-wing, and that contemporary liberals are fascism's intellectual offspring.
By Alex Koppelman
January 11, 2008
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My husband and he have so much in common -- but his beliefs are pernicious and wrong!
By Cary Tennis
January 3, 2008
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GOP ascendancy is over, says Paul Krugman. It's time for progressives to seize the day and turn back economic inequality.
By Andrew Leonard
October 15, 2007
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He calls Chuck Hagel "Senator Betray Us" and denounced antiwar Iraq vets as "phony soldiers," but don't hold your breath waiting for a Senate vote to condemn him.
By Joan Walsh
October 2, 2007
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The world wants to label us and we want to resist. But look at the damage the Current Occupant has done in the name of escaping the term "moderate Republican."
By Garrison Keillor
April 11, 2007
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New Republic editor Peter Beinart admits he was wrong about Iraq -- but still calls for liberals to fight the "new totalitarianism rising from the Islamic world." Yet many on the left don't believe his bogeyman even exists.
By Andrew O'Hehir
June 16, 2006
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Most liberals have celebrated the recent pro-immigration marches. But some leading progressives say illegal immigration hurts American workers.
By Michelle Goldberg
April 20, 2006
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Canada just elected a right-wing prime minister, Stephen Harper. But he had to distance himself as far as possible from George W. Bush to win.
By David Beers
January 25, 2006
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A chilling Fox News report on a town so liberal, it's obscene!
By H.H.
January 17, 2006
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Al Franken pukes into his wastebasket in Chapter 4 of his new book, then spends Chapter 5 in "Rove-induced septic shock."
By Lynn Harris
October 25, 2005
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In attacking liberals' reaction to Sept. 11, Bush's senior advisor once again resorts to McCarthy-style tactics.
By Joe Conason
June 24, 2005
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Let conservatives co-opt "South Park and "The Incredibles." It's time for liberals to get in touch with the free-range, foul-mouthed, gunslinging antiheroes of "Deadwood."
By Matt Welch
May 21, 2005
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The right-wing columnist used my work to bash Dean and MoveOn as elitists -- conveniently ignoring the big-money interests that pull the GOP's strings.
By Theda Skocpol
February 8, 2005
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To change people's minds on issues like gay marriage, liberals need to learn to tug at their heartstrings.
By Jennifer Buckendorff
January 24, 2005