The Left

Getting Out Every Vote Getting Out Every Vote

How can progressives substantially increase the number of low-income voters in 2004--and why does it matter?

Apr 8, 2004 / Jeff Blum

The End of the Affair The End of the Affair

It's been a while since Cuba, that caiman-shaped Caribbean isle, ceased to be a place on the map.

Feb 26, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Achy Obejas

Farewell, Howard Dean Farewell, Howard Dean

A vote of thanks is due to Dr. Dean, A comet on the presidential scene. Once sure to win, he lost it all instead. He made mistakes, but still it should be said

Feb 26, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin

An Idea Factory for the Democrats An Idea Factory for the Democrats

The Center for American Progress was conceived as the Democratic answer to the Heritage Foundation...

Feb 12, 2004 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss

Running on Empty Running on Empty

If ever there was an event that called for reflection on what was left of the New Left, it was the 1981 Brink's robbery.

Dec 18, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Carol Brightman

Camp Wellstone Camp Wellstone

Paul Wellstone won elections as a progressive by energizing and mobilizing a large base, staying close to community organizing efforts of all kinds and fearlessly pressing a bo...

Oct 23, 2003 / Jeff Blodgett

Wellstone in 2004 Wellstone in 2004

During the two years when he was exploring a bid for the 2000 Democratic presidential nomination, Paul Wellstone spent a lot of time trying to figure out how a progressive coul...

Oct 23, 2003 / John Nichols

Our Victorian Ancestors Our Victorian Ancestors

"You are the heirs of one of the country's great traditions, the Progressive movement that started late in the nineteenth century and remade the American experience piece by pi...

Oct 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Michael Kazin

Seeing Red at the Post Seeing Red at the Post

I did a double take when I got to the eighth paragraph of the Washington Post's eleven-paragraph August 21 news story on Kathy Boudin's parole.

Sep 25, 2003 / Victor Navasky

Kathy Boudin’s Time Kathy Boudin’s Time

Kathy Boudin's parole from Bedford Hills Correctional Facility after twenty-two years is welcome and overdue.

Aug 28, 2003 / The Editors

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