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Where’s the Movement?

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INSIDE CUBA: From Fidel to Raúl

Continuity, change and perspective.

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Pitbullies of the Right

By the time you read this, election day will be over and pundits will have told us all about… more

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A Party With No Punch

Three parables for progressives and the Grand Old (Democratic) Party.

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The Barney Frank Story

Not your average left-handed, gay, Jewish congressman.

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Uniting, One County at a Time

We helped make rural Oregon a force for progressive change.

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Country Club Etiquette Trumps Legislative Results

The recent headlines about President Obama working to crush primary campaigns against Democratic incumbents would be great fodder for… more

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Selective Deficit Disorder

Watching the healthcare debate unfold these days is a little like watching scenes from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's… more

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A Party Is Not a Movement

The difference between parties and movements is simple: Parties are loyal to their own power regardless of policy agenda;… more

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The Real History of a Radical

Putting I.F. Stone in perspective.

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Battling Over Employee Free Choice

The fate of labor’s top legislative priority is in the Senate’s hands.

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Jacob Zuma: Sub-Saharan Populist

The anxiety over the selection of Jacob Zuma as president of South Africa obscures a significant milestone: For the… more

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Israel’s Center Does Not Hold

Netanyahu's coalition begins to govern, as the world awaits a two-state solution.

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With Their Magic Bullet, Dems Have No More Excuses

As counsel for the Warren Commission, Arlen Specter described a "magic bullet" that changed America. Four decades later as… more

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‘Reform’ To Nowhere

How the crusade against earmarks threatens constitutional democracy.

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Newsflash: Populism Is Popular

In 2006, journalist Christopher Hayes wrote a little-noticed article for In These Times magazine about a proposal in Oregon… more

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African-Americans Back Burris

The African-American community's unified efforts to retain Roland Burris as the lone black U.S. senator has chastened national Democrats,… more

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Measuring Electoral Success

In the March 3 special primary election for the 5th congressional district seat in Illinois, formerly held by White… more

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Death by Chutzpah

You know what I'm tired of? Chutzpah. Defined as "utter nerve; effrontery," chutzpah can be admirable, especially when people… more

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El Salvador’s Left Turn?

Mixed results for 'el frente' in the country's congressional elections.

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The A Word

MEXICO CITY--Any serious scribe will tell you that writing is, at its heart, the maddening struggle to find exactly… more

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The Anti-Blago

Amid a crowded field of Democratic contenders, Tom Geoghegan stands out.

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Watching The Watchers

Mass Observation returns for the Obama inauguration.

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You Say You Want a Revolution

A founding member of the Weather Underground looks back at an organization unable to come to terms with its own violence.

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The Ultra-Radical Republicans

Sixteen years ago, when another new Democratic President was trying to enact an economic package, the Republicans were entrenched… more

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Team of Zombies

Only weeks ago, the political world was buzzing about a "team of rivals." America was told that finally, after… more

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The Failed Prophet

As Wall Street collapses, so does Milton Friedman’s legacy.

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Washington Reporters’ Mass Exodus

There's a problem with journalism when a newspaper lays off a reporter like Phil Dine. For 20 years, Dine… more

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Making Him Do It

When they write their retrospectives about the era that ended with the 2008 election, economic historians will undoubtedly credit… more

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Che the Man, Not the T-shirt

Soderbergh’s Che refuses to typecast the revolutionary.

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George W. Bush’s Sci-Fi Disaster

In retrospect, George W. Bush's presidency could be viewed as a science-fiction disaster movie in which an alien force… more

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Moving Forward Without Dogma

Despite the severity of the current economic crisis, the morale of the progressive movement remains sky high. Liberals, progressives… more

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The Radical Conservative

Vietnam veteran and author Andrew Bacevich on American decadence and the failure of the Iraq War.

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That Old Saying in Tennessee

The veto is the legislative equivalent of a nuclear warhead -- a rarely used instrument of devastating force that… more

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Making the Feds Model Employers

Obama must put a stop to worker abuse by private contractors.

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Lines Drawn in the Sandinistas

Nicaragua’s democratic left chafes under President Ortega’s rule.

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Obama Needs a Black Agenda

The first black president of the United States cannot credibly govern without a national black agenda. But don't depend… more

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The Rise and Fall of Rod Blagojevich

The governor's apparent misdeeds were audacious even by Illinois standards, Senior Editor David Moberg says during this interview with "Democracy Now!" co-host Juan Gonzales, which aired Wednesday.

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El Salvador’s New Left

Once a guerrilla movement, the FMLN has swapped revolutionary rhetoric for pragmatic politics.

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The Margin Walker

Veteran punk rocker Ian MacKaye on what has shocked him most during the Bush Era and why Obama gives him hope

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