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(6 comments) SHARE Monday, September 5, 2011 Teaching History to a Digital Generation
The digital generation has historical amnesia. But whose fault is that? Look in the mirror, my grizzled veteran friends.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 4, 2011 The Debt Strike Pledge
Default was a bluff and our so-called leaders folded. The enemies of the people won.
Next time we should call that bluff and make them feel the pain. A call for a general strike on debt.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 26, 2011 The Poisoned Chalice
Where do these strange Republican candidates come from? What got them here? And where did they go?
(11 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 19, 2011 Breaking up with Obama?
It's not your fault, it's mine. No, really. I'm not just saying that. I'm a progressive, and I blew it.
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, March 25, 2011 Libya, Leadership and Lives
Getting it right in Libya. When everyone is against you, except the people you are helping, you are probably doing it right.
(38 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 27, 2011 Everyone is born a Socialist
The conservatives have it wrong. The philosophical roots of the progressive project are born inside us.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 23, 2010 Which Side Are You On?
We have to choose, and the American people have to choose, whether they like it or not.
(18 comments) SHARE Friday, October 22, 2010 The Counterrevolutionary Delusion
What the rise of the right is really about. Counterrevolution as social pathology.
(22 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 23, 2010 Where is the progressive Tea Party?
There is no progressive movement in
America, just progressives.
Why can't we get it together?
Where is the progressive Tea Party?