Tony Judt, The Nation. January 3, 2005. It's time to recognize that anti-Semitism has changed from what it used to be, even if it's difficult and painful to talk about.
Ruy Teixeira, The Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation. December 23, 2004. Public Opinion Watch: The exurban myth; Who needs the political center; The people don't want to privatize Social Security
David Corn, LA Weekly. December 23, 2004. Easy to run for office, hard to govern: It didn't take long for problems to crop up for George Bush post-election.
Arianna Huffington, AlterNet. December 22, 2004. The plan to do away with judicial filibusters is an out-and-out power grab by the president and his Congressional accomplices.
Jim Hightower, AlterNet. December 22, 2004. I'm sending Donnie Rumsfeld a six-month stint as a grunt in Iraq, assigned to drive one of those vehicles that he still hasn't outfitted with life-protecting armor.
John Gorenfeld, Gadflyer. December 22, 2004. Why is President Bush supporting a group trying to convince African American churches to literally throw their crosses in the trash?
Robert Scheer, AlterNet. December 21, 2004. The anti-Social Security crowd is trying to make this a young-versus-old generational fight, even though seniors still pay taxes like anybody else.
David Morris, AlterNet. December 20, 2004. In war, one tries to demoralize and destroy the enemy, seize territory and gain unconditional surrender. Must liberals approach politics as war in order to win?
David Sirota, The Nation. December 17, 2004. The Democratic Leadership Council's addiction to contributions from Philip Morris, Texaco, and Merck is proof enough that its "centrism" is really a naked corporate agenda.
Ruy Teixeira, The Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation. December 16, 2004. Public Opinion Watch: Where's the evidence that values voters increased this election from 2000? Also, an update on the National Exit Polls results on Hispanic voting.
Max Blumenthal, AlterNet. December 15, 2004. Judith Reisman believes sex researcher Alfred Kinsey is responsible for all the cultural decay and sexual permissiveness that she sees. And she's got the ear of the Christian right and the White House.
Robert Parry, Consortium News. December 14, 2004. The real tragedy of journalist Webb’s historic gift – and of his life cut short – is that because of the major news media’s cowardice, a dark chapter of the Reagan-Bush era remains largely unknown to the American people.
Robert L. Borosage, TomPaine.com. December 13, 2004. Immediately after the election, the Republican-led Congress convened in Washington, dropped their culture war, and passed a gigantic spending bill loaded with corporate pork.
Dean Baker, In These Times. December 13, 2004. If Bush's attempt to privatize Social Security is stopped, then he's a lame duck for the rest of his term.
Ruth Conniff, The Progressive. December 10, 2004. While party leaders are busy putting on their cardigans and practicing their Bible verses in the hopes that the big bullies in Washington won't pick on them, out in the states progressives are organizing.
James Bovard, AlterNet. December 10, 2004. The Bush administration has shown a disregard for the firewall between military and domestic affairs. Is that a G.I. knocking at your door?
Ruy Teixeira, The Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation. December 9, 2004. Public Opinion Watch: Reconsidering the conventional wisdom about Ohio; Bush's Hispanic support headed downward; It's still a Roe v. Wade Country.
David Sirota, The American Prospect. December 9, 2004. Encrypted within the 2004 election map is the Democrats' road map to political divinity. It is time for the party's centrists to make way for the economic populists who racked up wins on Nov. 2.
Arianna Huffington, AlterNet. December 8, 2004. Anyone raising the idea that the party needs to "move to the middle" should immediately be escorted out of the building.
T. Eve Greenaway, WireTap. December 8, 2004. The director and spokesperson for Rock the Vote talks about celebrity involvement, what she's learned from the election, and the issues that will keep the momentum going.
John Nichols, The Nation. December 8, 2004. Challenging the pro-free trade, pro-corporate agribusiness policies of Secretary of Agriculture nominee Mike Johanns is the best place for Democrats to start connecting with rural voters.
Lakshmi Chaudhry, AlterNet. December 8, 2004. Adam Werbach argues that the moral and intellectual framework underpinning Democratic politics has become irrelevant. It's time to craft a new progressive vision of fulfillment.
Peter Dreier, Kelly Candaele, The Nation. December 7, 2004. Engaging in a vigorous fight to raise our meager minimum wage is clearly the morally right thing to do. But it may also be the politically astute thing for Democrats to do.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet. December 7, 2004. With the flush of election victory, Bush no longer needs to use end around maneuvers to get a controversial nominee into office.
Amy Sullivan, Washington Monthly. December 6, 2004. Conservative columnist and pundit Bob Novak's privileged position would count for nothing if his peers and colleagues held him accountable for his ethical lapses.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. December 6, 2004. The latest flap over Vietnamese seafood highlights the hypocrisy and corporate protectionism America exhibits in its trade relationships.
BuzzFlash. December 3, 2004. Narrative is one of the fundamental tools we use for organizing our lives. A trip to the grocery is organized as a narrative. So is a political campaign. So is a war.
Ruy Teixeira, The Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation. December 2, 2004. Public Opinion Watch: The votes for Bush and Reagan's incumbent campaigns don't compare well; Bush is not due an election honeymoon; did fast-growing counties help Dubya in the election?
Greg Sargent, The American Prospect. December 2, 2004. A longtime Republican operative is selling herself to Christian conservatives as a grassroots leader to help promote Bush's judicial nominees.
Mary Zepernick, AlterNet. December 1, 2004. Do we consider ourselves capable of and entitled to self-governance? If so, then We the People can start with taking back our government from the corporations.
David Corn, The Nation. December 1, 2004. The folks propagating the election theft hysteria would be better off focusing on the real culprit: our flawed election system.
Arianna Huffington, AlterNet. December 1, 2004. The reclamation project doesn't have to be a long one for the Democratic Party – we need merely to look at recent political history.
Jamie Malanowski, Washington Monthly. November 30, 2004. Tom DeLay has not merely maximized the powers of his office; he's not merely the model of the modern martinet; he has eliminated all the customary checks on his power.
Lakshmi Chaudhry, AlterNet. November 30, 2004. Author Thomas Frank tells us why the Democratic Party lost the 2004 elections and how it needs to rebuild - and address the needs of American working families.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. November 30, 2004. Should liberals pay attention to Washington squabbles over the next DNC chair, or instead focus on the real battles ahead?
Naomi Klein, The Nation. November 29, 2004. The election appears to have ushered in an orgy of impunity for the administration's – and soldiers' – actions in Iraq. Is Kerry to blame?
John Gartner, AlterNet. November 29, 2004. The real great divide in American politics is not between red and blue states, but between urban and rural voters.
Ashley Sayeau, The Nation. November 27, 2004. A Tennessee-raised woman returns to her home state to find that fighting the feminist cause in the South is more difficult than she expected.
Ruy Teixeira, The Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation. November 24, 2004. Public Opinion Watch: Dig a little and you'll see that the evidence doesn't point to Bush getting 44 percent of the Hispanic vote.
Arianna Huffington, AlterNet. November 24, 2004. If the Democratic Party is serious about reclaiming the moral values high ground, it needs to take a long hard look in the medicine chest mirror.
Robert B. Reich, TomPaine.com. November 24, 2004. With the dollar dropping to an all-new low against the euro, the nicest and safest gift you can give a friend or loved one this holiday season is ... gold.
