Hold Fast

Matt Stoller has a post up at Naked Capitalism where he looks at the revolution in Egypt’s strong labor base and the extent to which it is a rejection of a Rubinite economic view. Stoller writes: What is going in Egypt represents a remarkable new political coalition striking deep at the heart of the Washington [...]

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It’s hard to imagine a scenario where the future is won, but no model for organizing against income inequality, cuts to public services, and tax evasion by the wealthy is used. Juan Cole on Google exec Wael Ghonim’s organizing model in Egypt: He wants an end to Egypt’s crony capitalist state, which allowed Hosni Mubarak [...]

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Mike Konczal makes a great point about the value of losing well in the financial regulatory reform fight and setting the table for future fights and wins. The whole post is worth a read, especially in contrast to his critique of how the administration has lost some fights poorly. But this conclusion stands out in [...]

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So yesterday a colleague and I were talking about how honestly envious we are of what the GOP base has been able to do this year – run dozens of candidates for statewide and federal office, rack up a decent win rate, and get real conservative movementarians to win major nominations. Contrast this what we’ve [...]

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At the end of a long, thoughtful and dare I say, Must Read piece in The Nation on the structural hurdles in American politics and the media that prevent a truly progressive presidency from being realized, Eric Alterman writes: What’s more, one hypothesis—one I’m tempted to share—for the Obama administration’s willingness to compromise so extensively [...]

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I think Cenk Uygur’s post on Huffington Post today is a really important marker that people who are about the progressive movement and moving the Democratic Party to the left should read. After conceding that Obama is, more than anything else, a cautious politician who will naturally move to the center in any debate, Uygur moves to [...]

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Robert Cruickshank, who does incredible work as the Courage Campaign’s policy director, has a must-read post at The Seminal on FireDogLake. Here is a large excerpt: The collapse of support for the bill reveals a deeper and growing divide, an unwillingness of most Americans to embrace a flawed process. In particular, progressives – activists and [...]

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Chris Hayes of The Nation has an excellent piece on the rightwing assault on ACORN, aided by the United States Congress. He closes with these powerful lines: The disparity in the treatment of Blackwater et al. and ACORN is part of a larger American problem, what might be called the Inequality of Accountability. We diligently [...]

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