progressives

Big Labor has an identity crisis, and its name is Dakota Access

The AFL-CIO’s president threw his support behind the pipeline, dividing the country’s biggest union federation.

What is the dream behind the American Dream Movement?

Van Jones gave a speech at Netroots Nation on the "American Dream Movement." The idea is for the left to borrow from what the Tea Party has done well.

The big question: What story about America’s future can unite the U.S. left?

Liberty and _____ for all.Photo: Ludovic BertronU.S. politics is at an interesting inflection point. On one side, the American right grows ever more homogeneous: ethnically, socioculturally, and ideologically. On the other, the American left is an unwieldy coalition of minorities, unions, single working mothers, Blue Dogs, feminists, young people, knowledge workers, culture and entertainment elites, […]

Downplaying or remaining silent about climate change was and is a blunder for progressives

Progressives shouldn’t keep quiet.Photo: Jennifer MooSome of the best pollsters have known for years that progressives can and should talk about climate change. Mark Mellman calls the polling that suggests one shouldn’t talk about global warming, a “politically naïve, methodologically flawed, and factually inaccurate.” Sure, if you talk about any subject in a clumsy fashion […]

Taxing carbon as part of responsible, progressive fiscal policy

Here's a progressive plan to cut the deficit while investing in the future (and taxing carbon). Can climate hawks and deficit hawks find common cause?

Progressives don't screw other progressives. Okay, shouldn't.

Lately, I've been mulling over how climate/energy policy relates to the larger politics of progressivism. Some think Obama has been so bad on environmental issues that environmentalists should try to mount a primary challenge in 2012. Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that the environmental critique is valid. Does it therefore follow that greens should work to see him gone?