The Progressive
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The Progressive is an American monthly magazine of politics and culture with a pronounced leftist perspective. Known for its pacifism, it has strongly opposed military interventions, such as the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. The magazine also devotes much coverage to civil rights, civil liberties, and environmentalism. It has opposed nuclear weapons from August 1945 to the present. More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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Center
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nonprofit_organization | Managers: Matthew Rothschild
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409 East Main Street, Madison, WI, 53703, US
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Lack of universal health care is a mass killer
In my 20 years of practice as a family physician, I have encountered dozens of cases where the main contributing factor to a person’s death was the lack of health insurance ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
Changing Obama's Mindset
Our job is not to give him a blank check or simply be cheerleaders. It was good that we were cheerleaders while he was running for office, but it’s not good to be ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Being an Arab is no slur
In his rebuke to his supporter, McCain counterposed being Arab with being a decent family man. That’s news to me, and to the legions of decent, Arab-American family men out ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Yellow Dogs For Obama
The DailyKos argument that Obama's supporters should embrace his abandonment of their principles because he will win by selling out avoids the most important question: What ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Bush's Secret Army of Snoops and Snitches
A new class of everyday spies, from paramedics to utility workers, are being recruited to be "terrorism liason officers."Posted by Kelli Busey -
McCain's Meddlers
McCain has served as board chairman since 1993. During the past fifteen years, under the cover of spreading democracy and a free market economic system, the IRI has helped ...Posted by Jeff Clark -
Election Madness
Would I support one candidate against another? Yes, for two minutes--the amount of time it takes to pull the lever down in the voting booth. But before and after those two ...Posted by John Orvis -
The FBI Deputizes Business
Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly growing ...Posted by Melva Hackney -
How to Pull Out of a Recession: the Ethical Way, Not the Bush Way
When facing a recession, we always need to ask: What kind of tax cuts? What kind of deficit spending? For whom, and for what?Posted by Louise Auerhahn -
Put away the flags
On this July 4, we would do well to renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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Obama Surrenders on Health Care
If they were going to call him a socialist anyway, he should have pushed for single-payer. Instead, he proposed an inferior public option. And even on that, he refused to hold ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Karzai's Report Card
“There are no human rights and democracy in Afghanistan,” she said. “Our legislative, executive and judicial bodies are infected with the voices of fundamentalism. The ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Obama in Physical Danger from Crazy Rightwingers
Obama is facing more than 30 death threats a day, the paper said. And the Secret Service doesn’t have the resources to handle them all. “We have half the agents we ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Bailout Blues: Why Bank Nationalization Makes Sense
The government should take over all of the failing financial institutions, clean them up, and turn them back over to private management after letting the shareholders eat ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Obama and Daschle should opt for single-payer
Daschle says he wants to hear from us, the American people, on this issue. So we should oblige him. Obama and Daschle have a choice: Rely on a private insurance-based plan ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Obama should prosecute Bush officials who designed torture policy
One of Barack Obama’s first acts as president should be to instruct his attorney general to appoint an independent prosecutor to initiate a criminal investigation of former ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
No More Shop till You Drop
The economic crisis calls for massive, bold action, not pouring money into firms that now have the temerity to pay out the taxpayer-financed bailout money as dividends, which ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
U.S. Recklessness Toward Russia Set Stage for Current Conflict
What we're witnessing now is the bankruptcy of almost two decades of U.S. policy toward Russia. When Gorbachev and Yeltsin agreed to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Judge Taylor Makes It Clear: Bush Is a Criminal
Ruling the NSA spying to be illegal and unconstitutional, Judge Taylor said Bush was acting like a king. The Administration, the judge ruled, undisputedly violates the ...Posted by M. Chris Dixon
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