Privatizing our Children's Future

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Tuesday May 02, 2006 · 2:58 PM PDT

2006/05/02 · 14:58

The education system is under attack. This time, it's not the Conservatives-in- Democrats-Clothing who co-wrote and co-sponsored The No Child Left Behind Act in 2001. (Teddy Kennedy, I'm talking to you). This time the threat is far greater. It's coming direct from the heart of the conservative movement and it's being seen as the silver bullet that will prevent the conservative movement from splintering into a thousand pieces this year.

The idea is known by the harmless enough sounding name of Education Incentive Reform but it is to school vouchers what intelligent design was to creationism: a far more sophisticated attack on education. Read More

Right trying to spin away the boycott

Bertrand Newton

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Monday May 01, 2006 · 9:20 AM PDT

2006/05/01 · 09:20

The first signs are beginning to emerge about how the Right intend to deal with the Great American Boycott: spin it into insignificance. The day isn't even underway properly and yet the Right are already writing it off as a non-event. Read More

New grants for progressive politics

Bertrand Newton

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Friday April 07, 2006 · 2:15 PM PDT

2006/04/07 · 14:15

I'm a former advertising executive who is appalled by the direction this country is heading in. As a result I'm setting up The AdBack Foundation, and I'm seeking some feedback about a plan I have to offer ten grants of up to $250,000 each for projects that seek to further progressive politics.

I'm wanting ideas that relate broadly to progressive politics in the United States: environmentalism, feminism, pacificism, unionism, anti-racism, anti-imperialism and social radicalism.
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Is the Progressive Movement Dead?

Bertrand Newton

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Wednesday February 22, 2006 · 11:25 AM PST

2006/02/22 · 11:25

That may be what the Wall Street Journal is lavishing its ink upon, and what Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh are politically--who knows, maybe literally-- salivating over, but bedrock progressives are concerned about something else entirely.

Principally--and that is the optimum word here--progressives wonder what has happened to the bedrock principles of progressive philosophy that were founded and nurtured during the 1950s through the 1990s, have gone? Read More

Why the Democrats will lose again in 2008

Bertrand Newton

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Wednesday January 11, 2006 · 10:18 AM PST

2006/01/11 · 10:18

Sorry to have to break the bad news, but the Democrats will lose the Presidency in 2008. Never mind the mild bump in support that the mid-term ballots will deliver later the year, the Democrats are in no position to pull off the Big One.

Despite Bush's woeful performance in the polls, even if Hillary Clinton chooses Bill as her running mate, the Republicans are a shoo-in. Why? Because the Democrats have no over-arching strategy about how to get to 2008 without wedging themselves in two, like they did in 2004.
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