Behind The Curtain
Democracy may be dead and buried, but the pageantry of it will forever be reanimated posthumously.
Democracy may be dead and buried, but the pageantry of it will forever be reanimated posthumously.
LBJ’s knotty legacy is entangled with voting rights and Vietnam, but what does it have to do with mega-churches and superstar evangelists?
This country is broken. Imagine that I, a serial voter-fraud committer, can stalk the highways and byways of this great nation is proof!
Barack Obama has warned progressives to avoid in-fighting – “circular firing squads” – that weaken the overall progressive effort. Where, though, should we compromise? Where should we hold firm? Where do we draw the line between purity and pragmatism? Nathan Locke proposes a simple, common-sense litmus test.
FDR made a fatal error when he backed off of anti-lynching legislation to appease Southern Democrats. Today’s progressives can make a new, stronger coalition that isn’t tainted by racism.
A Chilean immigrant hears Bernie speak and remembers her father’s tales of hope and possibility.
It is high time that Progressives should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish our views, our aims, our tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Specter of Progressivism with a manifesto of the movement itself.
They are different, but not in the way many believe.