Progressive Opinion

rollingstone.com — America's fat-cat business leaders know that the Animal House-style party of the last eight years that made almost all of them rich with bonuses, government contracts and bubble profits is about to come to an end, and someone is going to have to pay to clean up the mess. They want that someone to be you, not them, and they've spared no expense to make sure both presidential candidates will be there to bail them out next year.

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thenation.com — Does GOP Stand for Grampa's Old Politicians?

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huffingtonpost.com — Almost half of America's youngest workers believe the nation's best days may have come and gone. Ninety percent say the social contract is broken and 87 percent — the largest portion in any age group — are calling out for a new one.

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thenation.com — There are close to 13 million 18- to 25-year-olds, who have never been enrolled in college in America. So far only about three million voted in the primaries. These non-college youths come disproportionately from lower-income backgrounds and African American and Latino communities. What will it take to mobilize over 10 million non-college youth to come out in November?

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Details of Sen. Barack Obama's speech on patriotism got buried in the wake of General Wesley Clark's politically lunkheaded comment that "riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down" doesn't qualify Sen. John McCain to be president. But over the Fourth of July weekend, it might be appropriate and enlightening to take a few minutes to read or watch the whole thing. more »

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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huffingtonpost.com — In this election year, expect the skeptical or the indifferent to raise a litany of objections to having a national innovation agenda in the first place. Here are five of my all-time favorites.

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thenation.com — Young people who want work and cannot find it are being sent the wrong message. Is this a country that really respects hard work if it places no value on creating work? Indeed, what message does this nation want to send its youth?

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huffingtonpost.com — Today almost no one wants to get caught openly acknowledging the limits of public opinion. We are all populists now. The voice of The People is the voice of God. In a profound and disturbing way, our worship of The People has grown so rigid that we are in danger of losing touch with our own history. It is one thing to pay ordinary people the respect due them as human beings, quite another to pretend that everything they believe is beyond questioning. We used to understand this, but no longer seem to.

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truthdig.com — For all the talk this year about bipartisanship, a sharp shift in partisan loyalties toward the Democrats, visible in a series of polls this week, could prove to be the defining fact about the 2008 election.

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