Progressive Opinion

truthdig.com — If the long conservative era that began with Ronald Reagan's election is over, will the judges appointed during the right's ascendancy be able to block, frustrate and undermine the efforts of a new progressive majority? Is the Supreme Court, as two influential journalists describe it, 'the last hope of the conservative interests in the United States.'

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alternet.org — How do today' youth — black youth in particular — choose their leaders? Hint: It's not by skin color or party affiliation.

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progressive.org — Before heading out for summer recess, the Democratically controlled Congress is on the cusp of handing Bush two big victories — and the American people two big defeats.

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thenation.com — While the nation pats itself on the back for finally offering up a serious black presidential candidate, racial inequality and what — if anything — to do about it, have not been part of the discussion. Yet race remains a fundamental divide in American society.

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thenation.com — Racial inequality and what, if anything, to do about it, have not been part of the discussion. Yet race remains a fundamental divide in American society.

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alternet.org — If the media are so liberal, why did most mainstream news outlets swallow Bush's lies about Iraq?

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huffingtonpost.com — When I think of today's blunt, fact-based online hell-raisers, my mind quickly flashes on Izzy Stone. You may think of Josh Marshall or Glenn Greenwald or Arianna Huffington. I think of Izzy.

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truthdig.com — A young black first-term senator — a man whose father was from Kenya, whose mother was from Kansas and whose name sounds as if it might have come from the roster of Guantanamo detainees — has won a marathon of primaries and caucuses to become the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. To reach this point, he had to do more than outduel the party's most powerful and resourceful political machine. He also had to defy, and ultimately defeat, 389 years of history.

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huffingtonpost.com — While Clinton and Obama broke barriers in the Democratic primary the race was still refereed, scored and narrated by white male commentators, an influential constituency in presidential politics. Pundits talked a lot about gender and racial progress during the campaign, of course, but the elite opinion media continues to employ, groom and promote a commentators corps that is disproportionately white and male.

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nytimes.com — A nation of immigrants is holding another nation of immigrants in bondage, exploiting its labor while ignoring its suffering, condemning its lawlessness while sealing off a path to living lawfully. The evidence is all around that something pragmatic and welcoming at the American core has been eclipsed, or is slipping away.

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