A Year of Sweet Victories A Year of Sweet Victories
Among the sweetest victories of 2005: Social Security reform has been blocked, pressure to withdraw from Iraq is growing and progressive activists are making progress on local, sta...
Dec 15, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel and Sam Graham-Felsen
Anatomy of a Victory Anatomy of a Victory
George W. Bush's plan to privatize Social Security is dead, thanks to a remarkable mobilization by progressive groups. Much can be learned from the way The Campaign for America's F...
Dec 1, 2005 / The Editors
Can the Democrats Win the Ground War at Home? Can the Democrats Win the Ground War at Home?
Progressive groups that mobilized for the 2004 elections are now dismissed as failures. But though they were unable to defeat Bush, grassroots activists are creating waves across t...
Nov 30, 2005 / Feature / Chris Hayes
Cornbread and Roses Cornbread and Roses
With his campaign to eradicate poverty in America, John Edwards has shed his Clinton Lite image. But to truly redefine the Democratic party and win the 2008 presidency, he has a lo...
Can We Talk? Can We Talk?
Liberals need to find a means to bridge the gap between Americans' belief in liberal solutions and their willingness to trust liberals to enact them.
Nov 3, 2005 / Column / Eric Alterman
Minority/Majority Minority/Majority
The attempt to fashion a distinct Democratic identity was temporarily halted when Elaine Kamarck and William Galston published a self-serving call for Democrats to move to the "cen...
Oct 27, 2005 / David Sirota
The War of the Liberals The War of the Liberals
Power and the Idealists clings to the notion that the Iraq War was waged for humanitarian ideals, while At the Point of a Gun documents the inner torment of humanitarian interventi...
Oct 26, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Holmes
Kaine Country Kaine Country
It's a tight race, but if Tim Kaine becomes the next governor of Virginia, Democrats gain what they desperately need to win back Congress: a big win in a Southern state.
Oct 20, 2005 / Feature / John Nichols
Wrong About the Right Wrong About the Right
Progressives lack a common set of that tie a movement together. But they can build on conservatives' proven strategy of slowly creating a broad consensus.
Oct 20, 2005 / Feature / Jean Hardisty and Deepak Bhargava
Corrupt, Incompetent and ‘Off Center’ Corrupt, Incompetent and ‘Off Center’
With leading Republicans facing the slammer and Bush in a tailspin, fate has given liberals a huge opportunity. Americans already share our values--we need a new language to help c...
Oct 20, 2005 / Column / Eric Alterman