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President Obama lays out his policy priorities for the year in his State of the Union address. How do they match up to the progressive vision of restoring the American dream for every person struggling to get on to and climb the economic ladder? more »

Conservatives in Washington are working hard to turn the Solyndra solar power company bankruptcy into a broad attack on government support for green energy. Don't let them succeed. Our posts following this controversy give you the facts and the context you need to counter the scandal-mongering from the right.

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To listen to what's coming out of Washington, D.C., these days is to realize that our elected officials are completely ignoring a deficit that threatens to devastate the American economy, and the lives of millions of Americans. No, not that deficit. I'm talking about an appalling deficit of ideas about how to create jobs and return our economy to one that works for all of us, not just 1% of us.

Fortunately, that dearth of ideas is limited to D.C. Rebuild the Dream is creating a Contract for the American Dream, and is asking Americans for ideas. At the moment, there are over 12,000 ideas about how to: create good jobs and invest in a sustainable future; stop corporations and the rich from dodging taxes; strengthen communities by ensuring good health care, quality education, a clean environment, and a retirement with dignity for all.

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When white America catches a cold, the saying goes, black America gets pneumonia. Or in this case, when white America has a recession, black America gets a depression. It was true in the Great Depression, and it's no less true in the "Great Recession."

It seems counter-intuitive that, with the first black president in office, African Americans would be worse off economically. But, as has been made clear over and over again, the election of Barack Obama was not a curative for the nation's racial ills, or for the economic pre-existing conditions that have turned white America's recession into black America's depression.

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Langston Hughes once asked, "What happens to a dream deferred?"; a rhetorical question answered with still more questions.

The current economic crisis raises a similar question: What's happened to the American Dream? Read more:

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On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated while working in Memphis to help public sanitation workers form a union.

He died trying to secure the same rights for workers that conservative governors are trying to strip away today. Now it is time for us to fight for the things Dr. King gave his life for: the freedom to bargain, to vote, to afford a college education and justice for all workers, immigrant and native-born

On April 4, millions of people will come together for the "We Are One" series of community and workplace actions.

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Public workers in Wisconsin and in several other states where they are under assault are fighting for the dignity of every worker. If these workers lose their ability to fight for fair wages and decent working conditions, we all lose.

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CPAC 2011 was like a trip through the looking glass.

At most political conferences, the mix of pragmatists and true believers results in a message with broad appeal, but rooted in shared principles. That's when everyone "gets it." CPAC was a mass exercise in not "getting it."

Two days at CPAC made the GOP's big problem crystal clear. The conservative movement is split between two factions of "true believers," both wildly out of step with what most Americans want, and both heavily invested in "not getting it."

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