VIDEO: Is Hillary Clinton a Progressive? Not According to Her Policy Record
Feb 4, 2016 Jeff Cohen, media scholar at Ithaca College and founder of the watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, reviews Clinton's history of "progressivism" and laughs.
VIDEO: ‘Days of Revolt’: Chris Hedges, Student Activists on the Decline of the Liberal Church
Feb 3, 2016 "If you look at how [Union Theological Seminary] treats its professors of color, its students of color, its neighbors of color, it doesn’t add up.”
The Missing Women of Afghanistan
Oct 30, 2014 On Sept. 29 Ashraf Ghani was sworn in as president of Afghanistan. What he had to say in his inaugural speech about his wife, Rula Ghani, sent his nation's progressive women over the moon. (At right, an Afghan.)
12 Theses on Education in the Age of Neoliberalism and Terrorism
Sep 5, 2014 The goal of neoliberal education policies is not to improve education, but rather to increase the profits of private corporations. As long as the United States continues to view educational policy and practice through the lens of market-based values, there is little hope that progressive education, with its aim of educating students for critical citizenship and social and economic justice, will survive.
The Debate: Independence or Partisanship
Mar 31, 2014 Finally, there is a much needed debate about the relationship that people who are working for progressive change should have with the Democratic Party -- one that has existed at the edges, in email discussions and private conversations, but is now moving to center stage. And it includes the issue of a presidential run by Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Is Elizabeth Warren Stepping Into Sharkskin?
Mar 1, 2014 The respected Massachusetts senator wants "to turn post offices into loan-sharking bodegas in low income neighborhoods," investigative reporter Greg Palast writes at Reader Supported News.
Bernie Sanders for President in 2016?
Nov 18, 2013 The outspoken senator from Vermont, Congress' only self-described socialist, said he would consider a 2016 run for the presidency if no one else with sufficiently left-wing values enters the race.
