With the U.S. invasion of Iraq under way, American liberals seem at a loss for how to respond. In recent months, most lined up against unilateral war; now that war has begun, the only semi-coherent message emerging from progressive ranks is one of rejectionism. But that tack is a mistake. And it is one liberals […]
Nick Penniman
Nick Penniman is executive editor of TomPaine.com, a public-interest journal inspired by Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense and The Rights of Man.
Before joining TomPaine.com, he was director of Moving Ideas Network and an associate editor of The American Prospect. He also served as the director of the Alliance for Democracy, a national grassroots organization that focuses on corporate globalization and campaign finance reform. He formerly served as the editor of the Lincoln Journal, a weekly newspaper published in Massachusetts, and headed an investigative reporting team for the Community Newspaper Company. He grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and now lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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Goodbye To All That
The Democrats’ soft spine has been impaled on the party’s steering column. Now it’s time to say some symbolic goodbyes. Sadly, we do so at a time when we had to say an actual good-bye to Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.), who was heading for yet another uphill victory by running on liberal principles and raw […]
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Where’s the Movement?
In early June, the conservative Washington Post columnist Sebastian Mallaby wrote: “Enron has created a natural moment for a smart assault on capitalist excess. The wonder is that political leaders and social activists alike do not seem to have seized it.” By July, President Bush signed Sen. Paul Sarbanes’ (D-Md.) accounting-reform bill into law, but […]
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Outing Alec:
Earth Day, conservatives have been known to complain,always brings out the weirdos. This year’s celebration was no exception. “Absentfrom the debate [on global warming] is the discussion of human ingenuity and ourability to adapt to our environment; when the temperature increases, we turn onthe air conditioner,” ran one line of thinking that went out over […]
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Wealth of Spirit:
“Give it away, give it away, give it away, give it away now.” –Red Hot Chili Peppers The September 11 attack produced plenty of collateral damage, but one largely unnoticed casualty is the impending harm to the nonprofit sector. The 1990s were boom years for the sector, in no small part because the value of […]
