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Mar 25, 2017
13 min

Turning Progressive Activism Into a Winning Social Movement

Why the left needs to build power, now. By ASTRA TAYLOR | MARCH 24, 2017 / This post originally appeared at The Nation. In the wake of the catastrophic election of Donald Trump, we all know the left needs to get its act together. But how? I posed this question to Jillian Johnson, L.A. Kauffman and Jonathan Matthew Smucker, three longtime activists well-positioned to provide some insight and advice to anyone ready to commit to the budding resistance. Jillian Johnson is a year

Jay Murdock

Mar 3, 2017
7 min

The Manchurian President

A classic Hollywood political thriller may tell us more about what’s happening in America than any history book. BY NEAL GABLER | FEBRUARY 22, 2017 As the Trump presidency unravels, unraveling the country along with it, there is no real political antecedent, no lessons from American history on which to draw and provide guidance. We are in entirely uncharted waters. But there is an antecedent in our popular culture that provides a prism through which to view the contemporary c

Jay Murdock

Aug 29, 2013
4 min

At March on Washington, ALEC Is Exposed

by Brendan Fischer; August 26, 2013 – 9:10am – Topics: Democracy, Politics, Race / Ethnic Issue – Projects: ALEC Exposed “The task is not done, the journey is not complete,” said Martin Luther King III on Saturday’s 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington. “However, sadly, the tears of Trayvon Martin’s mother and father remind us that, far too frequently, the color of one’s skin remains a license to profile, to arrest and to even murder with no regard for the content of

Jay Murdock

Feb 28, 2011
4 min

The Real Issues: A Wisconsin Update

George Lakoff – Author, The Political Mind, Moral Politics, Don’t Think of an Elephant! Posted: February 26, 2011 01:19 PM The Wisconsin protests are about much more than budgets and unions. As I observed in “What Conservatives Really Want,” the conservative story about budget deficits is a ruse to turn the country conservative in every area. Karl Rove and Shep Smith have made it clear on Fox: If the Wisconsin plan to kill the public employees’ unions succeeds, then there wi

The Madison Protests: It’s Not About the Money

Jay Murdock

Feb 21, 2011
6 min

The Madison Protests: It’s Not About the Money

Howard Schweber – Associate Professor of Political Science and Law, University of Wisconsin-Madison – Posted: February 20, 2011 09:57 PM Madison, Wisconsin, The Heartland, America. I am not what you would call a real “progressive” in the modern sense of the word. I actually have significant concerns about the role of public sector unions when they become too large — they can begin to act like monopoly players in the labor market and to exert an unwholesome amount of politica

Jay Murdock

Feb 7, 2011
5 min

Politics and Nonsense on Egypt

President of the Arab American Institute, Author of “Arab Voices” Posted: February 5, 2011 09:48 AM When U.S. politicians are forced to discuss critical Middle East matters, more often than not, their remarks either display an ignorance of facts, are shaped more by political needs than reality, or are just plain dumb. Commentary about the popular revolt in Egypt provides a case in point. There was no doubt that the events in Cairo were momentous and, therefore, deserving of r

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