Stories by Van Jones

Hear Van Jones speaking live from the launch of the Rebuild the Dream campaign.

Voter guides are cheap and easy and they help win elections. The right-wing uses them better than we do. TheBallot.org project aims to play catch up.

It shouldn't take an oil apocalypse to get our attention. We are facing a continuing threat in the gulf from multiple points of potential peril.

Appointing Solis, Obama has made clear his commitment to creating green jobs to lift the nation out of its current economic crisis.

If he wants to save our economy and create jobs, he's got to start right away with this three-point plan.

In an electrifying speech, Van Jones explains that we have to invent and invest our way out of the economic and environmental crises.

After a judge dismissed the sentence of Genarlow Wilson -- an honor roll student and homecoming king serving 10 years in prison for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old when he was 17 -- Georgia's attorney general appealed, leaving Wilson stuck in jail.

The city of Oakland is creating jobs as unlikely allies push a green and local agenda to revitalize a depressed urban economy.

Just as non-blacks supported our freedom movement in the last century, I am determined to give my passionate support to this righteous cause.

The tragedy of Katrina offers progressives the rare opportunity to step in with vision, courage and leadership.

The last time U.S. progressives won, people of faith were at the center of the movement -- not stuck in its closet.

Those who dwell in the nation's progressive oases must learn to communicate and connect with a much broader swath of Americans. Our panel of progressive thinkers tackles the problem.

An excerpt from the <i><a href="http://www.alternet.org/sms/">Start Making Sense</a></i> section Understanding the Election.

From California to Texas, abuse of prisoners in the U.S. is common practice.