Liberals And Conservatives

Left and Right: Not Opposite Equals

Tina Dupuy: False equivalency benefits the right. A pox on both your houses disengages people from the political process and that helps Republicans. As we’ve seen in the midterms: When fewer people vote, more Republicans get into office.

What Should Government Do?

By Steve Hochstadt

Steve Hochstadt: Unless Iran actually puts our nation in mortal danger, declaring war on Iran would violate the trust that Americans put in our government. It’s what our government shouldn’t do.

How Presidential War Power Is Made

By Mary L. Dudziak

Mary Dudziak: “Liberals” and “conservatives” are often talking past each other on questions of national security, and there is a need to reshift the conversation, and get beyond partisan and left/right divides.

New Politics, Patriotic Capitalism

By Brent Budowsky

Brent Budowsky: This is the first in a series of columns that will propose that progressive populist Democrats and conservative populist Republicans unite behind new economic policies that I will call patriotic capitalism.  

General Shinseki Has a Dream

By Brent Budowsky

Brent Bukowsky: Let’s begin a JFK moon-shot program to end homelessness among American veterans within five years, and end homelessness of any American within 10 years.

2011: Year of Upheaval

By Brent Budowsky

Brent Budowsky: Prediction – Sarah Palin will issue a Sherman statement declaring she will not run for president in 2012, and will instead host a one-hour political talk show on network or cable television that will become the highest-rated political talk show in TV history.

LA Progressive: March 21 to 27, 2010

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Articles by Marcy Winograd, Charles D. Hayes, Michele Waslin, Paul Rogat Loeb, Joseph Palermo, Ron Wolff, Lydia Howell, David A. Love, Ed Rampell, Tom Degan, Rev. Irene Monroe, Michael Sigman, John Delloro, Andrea Christina Nill, Georgianne Nienaber, Randy Shaw, Berry Craig, Adam Eran, Steve Ybarra, Linda Milazzo, Robert Letcher, Ed Rampell, Robert Reich, Charley James, David A. Love ,

Celebrity Ego versus Democracy

By Charles D. Hayes

Charles D. Hayes: The state of public discourse in this country has deteriorated to such a degree that few public discussions ever go much further than the echo chambers in which they originate. A significant number our citizens behave as if they no longer believe in democracy at all.

The Dynamics of Disingenuous Dialog

By Charles D. Hayes

Charles D. Hayes: Human history demonstrates beyond doubt that both liberals and conservatives are necessary for the common good and that veering too far in either direction is a recipe for ruin.

Bogged Down in Wars

By Steve Hochstadt

I don’t doubt Obama’s strategic intelligence, his seriousness of purpose, his American patriotism, or his decision-making process. But I think his decision is wrong. We can’t do anything there but continue to lose lives and money.