When “Meet John Doe” ran on cable during this year’s Wall Street meltdown, it no longer felt like a quaint, period piece. Frank Capra’s populist films about little guys standing up to media magnates, corrupt politicians and greedy capitalists struck a nerve with audiences fighting their way out of the Depression. more »
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If you're a procrastinator like me, then you are frantically scurrying at the last minute to pick up holiday gifts for friends and family. So let me suggest four great gifts for you or any progressives you know - gifts that make great presents and that also help build and support the progressive movement. Here they are in no particular order: more »
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You’ve seen this scenario before. No sooner is a progressive new policy proposed than the knee-jerk denunciations begin: the pie-in-the-sky policy you’ve dreamed up will never work. Instead, it will kill jobs! It will squander tax dollars! Private sector incentives will be suppressed and axe-wielding criminals will run free in the streets! more »
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The economy needs at least a $900 billion boost over the next two years, according to a detailed economic recovery plan released today by more than a hundred economists and dozens of labor and public interest leaders who represent more than 20 million Americans.
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The whole world awaits, holding its collective breath, not in horror like 9-11, but in Hope, wonderment, amazement, and the expectation that America will amaze everyone and do the best things possible after eight years of doing the worst imaginable and much that was worse yet. more »
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Making Sense 2008!
