With polling numbers showing that a majority of Americans support sensible, effective measures like those proposed by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, why is it
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Track your Representatives and Senators via Megavote
Congress.org is touting a new email alert and newsletter service called Megavote. By submitting your email address and other info, you get: • A
The Local Community Radio Act of 2010
A free Internet, as we’ve known it, may be slipping away with the FCC’s watered down Net Neutrality ruling and its recent approval of
A states’-rights assault on healthcare reform
Just as healthcare consumers are beginning to see and like the benefits of the healthcare reform act, Republicans have launched yet another attack designed
Why are civilian Federal workers getting the shaft?
The two most effective ways to control federal spending: 1) Rescind the “Bush tax holiday” for the wealthy; restore tax rates for the wealthy
Presidential signing statements, revisited
Forced by the need to keep the Defense Department running, on Jan. 7, President Obama signed into law a spending bill with what the
President Obama as teacher-in-chief
We’ve all heard the story about the emperor having no clothes. Now we’re hearing more from “the Great Communicator” who has trouble communicating his
Busting the filibuster
Everybody [at least everybody who wants an effective democracy] talks about ending “filibuster abuse,” but who’s doing something about it? At least one US
Stand-up progressives: Kucinich vs. war
Right-wing Republicans may be strutting around calling the 2010 mid-term elections a “rejection” of progressive ideas, but that doesn’t mean that it’s so. Contrary
A progressive “to-do” list for lame-duck Congress
There’s still time to push the progressive agenda forward in Congress before the big Republican majority takes over in January 2011, and that’s what