Daphne Merkin, The Daily Beast. November 20, 2008. Change may well be coming to Washington. But the public discourse about women has taken several steps backward.
Rupa Dev, New America Media. November 15, 2008. The results of elections 2008 are good news for immigration reform, but there's still a potentially rocky road ahead.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. November 10, 2008. Outside of a few social issues, Americans are firmly in the progressive camp, but that hasn't prevented a lot of bloviating to the contrary.
AlterNet Staff, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. November 9, 2008. The results of the Minnesota Senate race pitting the incumbent against Al Franken are close enough to trigger a recount.
Stephen Zunes, AlterNet. November 6, 2008. Barack Obama's resounding victory has brought even this cynical observer of Democratic Party politics to dare to hope.
Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com. November 6, 2008. Today we celebrate the triumph of intelligence over a belief that Adam and Eve rode around on dinosaurs just 6,000 years ago.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. November 4, 2008. The country is shifting; new groups of voters are expected to come to the polls, and battles are raging over key ballot initiatives.
Annette Fuentes, New America Media. November 3, 2008. As the Cuban exile community ages, the Republican stronghold county is turning Democratic according to a poll of early voters.
Lea Lane, Huffington Post. November 3, 2008. Unmarried women will be to progressives what evangelicals were to conservatives. They will determine the future of this country.
Michael Kieschnick, AlterNet. November 3, 2008. Make sure you signal your company's commitment to its civic duty to ensure a fair election in every part of your organizational chart.
AlterNetNovember 1, 2008. This election, California voters have a huge chance -- and a special responsibility -- to vote on dramatic progressive reforms.
Sally Kohn, Movement Vision Lab. October 30, 2008. Conservatives talk about "starving the beast" of government. But given that government feeds and nurtures us, we'd only be starving ourselves.
Robert S. Eshelman, Tomdispatch.com. October 30, 2008. A mass defection from the Republican Party may be underway in counties that were once GOP strongholds. Call it the reverse Bradley Effect.
Joseph Romm, Huffington Post. October 29, 2008. Sarah Palin just helped clarify McCain's double-talk on global warming: He doesn't think the government should do anything to stop it.
Mark Klempner, AlterNet. October 29, 2008. The Bush administration used a politics of fear to diminish our ability to think critically and to erode our capacity to love.
Norman Solomon, AlterNet. October 28, 2008. Progressives must push for economic justice, health care for all, civil liberties, environmental protection and demilitarization.
