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When Finishing Second Is the First Priority

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Lance Simmens: California’s Senate race may be a bellweather for rejecting the orthodoxy of party leaders and embracing wholesale change in the direction of the Democratic Party.

By Lance Simmens posted on May 30, 2018

Feedback Friday: That Progressive Case for Senator Feinstein

Endorsing Dianne Feinstein

Clifford J. Tasner: Her biggest donors over the years have been Defense Contractors, which is why she enthusiastically embraced every war and military action that the Senate has been allowed to vote on.

By Clifford J. Tasner posted on March 16, 2018

A Progressive Case for Senator Feinstein 

Endorsing Dianne Feinstein

Hans Johnson and Karen Suarez: Senator Feinstein has secured votes in an often closely divided Senate by courting conservative colleagues when she can. Unequivocal defiance, the posture du jour of the Trump era, is not her style. That has drawn criticism from some Democrats, including her main challenger, state Senator Kevin de Leon.

By Hans Johnson and Karen K Suarez posted on March 8, 2018

Hey, Californians: Let’s Side With the Refugees, Not the Terrorists

Welcoming Refugees

Joe Mathews: Our state needs a hard and immediate U-turn, which starts with recognizing how the attacks connect California to the rest of the world.

By Joe Mathews posted on December 23, 2015

CIA: Fourth Branch of Government?

CIA Oversight: The oversight institutions charged with protecting the public from CIA abuses have been rendered dysfunctional .

By Joseph Palermo posted on March 13, 2014

Moonwalking the Assault Weapons Ban

Anthony Samad: Most Congress members are pollwatchers. When polls favored gun control, they favored gun control. Now that the polls are slipping, suddenly Congress is slipping. In fact, Congress is doing a total moonwalk… they look like they’re stepping forward on the issue but they’re actually moving backwards.

By Anthony Asadullah Samad posted on April 12, 2013

Tyranny of the Minority and the Demise of the Assault Weapons Ban

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Sylvia Moore: When the punditocracy constantly complains about Beltway gridlock, they don’t acknowledge the obvious structural flaws staring right at them in the face. America needs a new form of democracy. Our version has run its course.

By Sylvia Moore posted on March 24, 2013

CPAC and the Conservative Crack-Up

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Brent Budowsky: Regarding the conservative crack-up, can you believe that CPAC honors the ubiquitous birther Donald Trump and insults the most popular national Republican, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie?

By Brent Budowsky posted on March 15, 2013

Progressives Face Uphill Climb Designed to Make Them Fail

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Paul Hogarth: In Washington, the filibuster rules in the U.S. Senate have stalled our federal agenda. In Sacramento, the two-thirds vote requirement has given us a blue state with an Alabama budget.

By Paul Hogarth posted on August 3, 2010

Health Care Reform? Yes We Can!

Although health care nightmare stories abound across the United States, we don’t have to focus simply on the negative. Why not cultivate a positive vision for the kind of health care we deserve as a nation?

By Lucia Brawley posted on August 28, 2009

Progressives Bear Blame for California’s Woes

As California faces a fiscal meltdown, Democrats blame Republicans for opposing essential tax hikes. But progressives own failures should not be ignored. California Republicans have been anti-tax zealots since the mid-1990’s, yet progressives failed to prioritize passing a ballot measure eliminating the two-thirds requirement for budget passage in 1998, 2000, 2004, or 2008, each of […]

By Randy Shaw posted on June 3, 2009

Pardon Me: Is Our Long National Nightmare Over, or About to Begin Again?

by Gene Rothman — Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), in response to the issue of potential legal actions against the Bush administration’s for violations of the U.S, Constitution, wrote: “Thank you for your letter concerning impeachment proceedings against President George W. Bush and his authority to grant pardons. I appreciate the time you took to write […]

By Gene Rothman posted on December 6, 2008

Where Is California’s Barack Obama?

Fresh off a thrilling presidential campaign, California Democrats face a Governor’s race without a candidate that can rally a multi-racial, class-crossing grassroots base. The three most talked about candidates — Dianne Feinstein, Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom — neither offer a sharply new direction nor provide the transformational message that was at the heart of […]

By Randy Shaw posted on November 18, 2008

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My Friend Harris Wofford Jr., 1926-2019: Prophet of a United States of the World

Tad Daley: During the darkest days of the Second World War, teenage Harris Wofford founded a nationwide youth movement which proclaimed that after the end of that war the human race could abolish war, by creating a “United States of the World.”





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L.A. Jail Vote: Wrong Side of History

Peter Laarman: Everyone in the auditorium on today could smell the bad faith in the comments of supervisors Barger, Hahn, and Ridley Thomas.

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Jim Lafferty: The pro-Israeli lobby is rapidly losing its propaganda campaign aimed at silencing those who dare to criticize the bad behavior of the Israel government.

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How to Get Started in Forex Market

Daffa Zaky: Probably the number 1 thing you need to understand is to learn the basics first. Forex markets can grow complex as you invest more in the market.

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