All 15 articles by Ken Brociner

• 30 Jun 09

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  Progressive Blind Spots

  Since its formation in 1997, the Campaign for America's Future (CAF) has been one of the progressive movement's least... MORE »

• 31 May 09

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  Israel and the Klein Doctrine

  The recent meeting between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu highlighted the difficulty of untying... MORE »

• 28 Apr 09

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  The Cuban Revolution and the American Left

  For countless leftists who came of age politically sometime between the late 1950s and the early 1990s, the... MORE »

• 22 Feb 09

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  Israel, Gaza and the Left

  One of the left's most significant ideological failings in recent years has been its habit of issuing shrill... MORE »

• 25 Jan 09

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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,... MORE »

• 03 Nov 08

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  Old Dreams, Present Opportunities

  I have been doing a lot of soul searching as this momentous election has drawn closer. Of all... MORE »

• 05 Oct 08

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  Internationalism and the Progressive Movement

  One of the finest traditions of the American left has been its historic commitment to solidarity with the... MORE »

• 05 Aug 08

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  Does a Nationwide ‘Progressive Movement’ Actually Exist?

  George W. Bush will go down in history as one of this country's worst presidents ever. But there... MORE »

• 13 Jul 08

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  Dogmatic Rhetoric is Self-Defeating

  Martha Biondi and James Thindwa's viewpoint, "Earth to Ken Brociner," does start out with a clever title – that... MORE »

• 24 Jun 08

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  What Progressives Can Learn from Obama

  One of the trademarks of Barack Obama's presidential campaign has been his commitment to a new style of... MORE »

• 25 May 08

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  McGovern, Obama, and ‘transformative’ change

  One of the most common complaints among progressives is that we don't have a vision of how to... MORE »

• 20 Apr 08

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  A Tale of Two Conferences

  By sheer coincidence, the two wings of the American left held back-to-back conferences in mid-March. What follows is... MORE »

• 02 Mar 08

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  Liberals, Progressives and the Left

  The term "progressive" has evolved a great deal over the past 35 years. By the '70s, many '6... MORE »

• 07 Feb 08

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  A Two-Track Strategy For 2008 And Beyond

  In less than a year, America will have a new president. Barring unforeseeable events, on Jan. 20, 2009, the inaugural... MORE »

• 19 Oct 07

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  The Left’s Identity Crisis

  What does it mean to be a progressive in 2007? What do we stand for? What do we believe in? MORE »