Meet the 12 congressmen who are going to try to save America.
Robert Borosage
Robert Borosage is co-director of the Campaign for America's Future and co-editor of The Next Agenda: Blueprint for a New Progressive Movement and Taking Back America: And Taking Down the Radical Right.
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The Emerging Center-Left Majority
Conservatives dismiss the notion that this election represents the solidifying of a center-left America. A new poll shows they are wrong.
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Populism Rising
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton may be neophyte class warriors, but their populism is more than just rhetorical — and must be, if the Democrats are to win the election and govern successfully.
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Rejecting the Right
One swallow does not a summer make nor one election a new era. But some significant new realities that emerged from 2006 merit attention. First, clearly, this was a sweeping victory. Democrats had to overcome the Republican advantages in incumbency, gerrymandered districts, money, and mobilization, and to do so in the midst of a wartime […]
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Talking Taxes
George W. Bush has made tax cuts the touchstone of his presidency, supporting new ones each year, with the economy in growth and in recession, with record budget surpluses and record deficits, in peace and in war. Most of his fellow Republicans have sworn blood oaths never to raise taxes. They even managed to gain […]
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Staying the Course
This one hurts big. But progressives have little time for grief or recrimination. George W. Bush claims a mandate for his radical domestic agenda and for his preemptive foreign policy. The dollar has already begun to fall and interest rates to rise. The evangelical right is clamoring for advancing the jihad against gays and choice. […]
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A National Task
An educated citizenry is the hallmark of America’s democracy and central to the success of its economy. That was true at the founding of the republic, when Common Sense, Thomas Paine’s call for independence, sold 112,000 copies in three months — the equivalent of 17 million today — to the remarkably literate colonial settlers of […]
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The Wrong Target
“If we’re going to create jobs, the first thing we have to do is make sure that George W. Bush loses his.” John Kerry’s refrain elicits raucous cheers wherever he goes, and it’s echoed by the other Democratic presidential contenders. All share a similar and compelling critique of Bush’s failure: More than 3 million private-sector […]
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Class Warfare, Bush-Style
While the nation’s attention is riveted by the inexorable march to war against Iraq, the Bush administration has quietly opened a new front in the relentless, largely covert war it has been waging here at home against U.S. workers and their labor unions. In December the Labor Department issued new union reporting regulations, which would […]
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The DLC Flunks Politics 101
Democrats have a penchant for circular firing squads, particularly in the wake of electoral defeat. Once more, a first salvo has come from the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), which has made its name sniping at other Democrats. In a confidential memorandum on the “Road Ahead,” the DLC’s Al From and Bruce Reed surveyed the 2002 […]
