OurFuture.org Blogs: Rick Perlstein


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Affectionate Farewells

I announce, with both excitement and a heavy heart, that I'll be moving on from my work here at Campaign for America's Future to begin work on my next book. That said, one last treat: Rush!

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Rush from Reality

A political tendency that relies on esoteric pope figure to interpret the actuality of plain reality is not in a good position to win the loyalty of a nation. It is, instead, a cult.

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Maddow: The Big Con's Being Foiled





I was honored to be able to discuss the first month of Obama's term Friday on the Rachel Maddow show.

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Legacy Loans

[I wrote this post for TPMCafe's discussion of Will Bunch's fine book "Tear Down This Myth" but lost the instructions on how to post to TPM, so while I await them I'll bank the post for you folks here] more »

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In which the blogger expresses a certain generosity toward conversatives

Last night I debated Ramesh Ponnuru of National Review at Northwestern University on the proposition, "Resolved: The hour of conservatism has passed." I argued that conservatives these days seem more pathetic than dangerous. I cut them a break. It was a curious evening, right from the beginning.

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Holding Down the Fort from Chicago

Out in Washington, most of my Campaign for America's Future colleagues are at a great CAF-sponsored conference on "Thinking Big, Thinking Forward"—about how to achieve the kind of ideas for the economy that we need, not the ideas Susan Collins and Ben Nelson will support. more »

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ABC News Reports: All the President's Bling:

Please, please, please excuse my French. But ABC News today ran a story that felt to me like they were saying: "N****r gets to ride in a free limousine." more »

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Playboy in Braille

That, at this do or die moment of peril for our economy, is what the religious right would prefer to focus on. From a Focus on the Family email soliciting volunteers to call senators to oppose the nomination of David Ogden for deputy attorney general: more »

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These are the people with whom President Obama is attempting to negotiate in good faith

From The Politico, on a recent Republican retreat: more »

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Queen of Fleece

Dave Weigel penned a must-read about the flat-earther who's driving the Republicans' anti-recovery strategy. more »

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