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Profiles of the next generation of progressive women political leaders.

The case of Iraq War opponent Lt. Ehren Watada reveals the toll the war has taken on career military personnel. Though his refusal to serve in Iraq is unusual, his disenchantment with the war is not.

The New Democrats’ intellectual architect argues that today’s economy requires an expanded role for government and a commitment to ensuring economic growth benefits everyone.

American computer software engineers go the way of factory workers.

In response to their standing in the polls, the GOP is falling back on identity politics, branding itself as the party of “Real Americans.” How far can this take them?

Human services is the fastest-growing labor market. Here’s how to restore middle-class earnings by making every human-service job a good job.

For most of the 20th century, America manufactured things. For the past 30 years, though, it has chiefly manufactured debt. Wall Street, with the aid of both political parties, gravely damaged the economy.

Trade, the war on unions, and underfunded schools all lowered wages. Cheap credit propped us up — but now the debt is due. Herewith, a national economic strategy to turn America around.

As the number of green-collar jobs rises, pioneering activists are working to ensure that many of those jobs go to inner-city residents.

Presumptive Republican nominee John McCain may protest that he hates war, but no American leader has promoted it more avidly. McCain is not only the most hawkish neocon on the horizon; he genuinely sees war as America’s most ennobling enterprise.