by Anthony D. Romero | Executive Director ACLU
This Thanksgiving we are reflecting on what family means to us. For those of us at the ACLU and many people across the country, that will bring …

by Carl Davidson | Progressives for Obama
American progressives have won a major victory in helping to defeat John McCain and placing Barack Obama in the White House. The far right has been broadly rebuffed, …

Barack Obama is about to create one of the most attractive vacancies in American politics. And two of U.S. House’s leading progressive members would like to fill it.
by John Nichols | The Nation
Who should replace …

In bellwether Perry County, the Ku Klux Klan once thrived. Now, Republican truckers and coal miners are backing Barack Obama.
by Walter Shapiro | Salon.com
The Saturday afternoon scene seemed ripped out of a Republican playbook. A …

by Linda Milazzo
To underscore that voting third party or not voting at all will help elect McCain and Palin, and thereby re-empower the self-righteous ideologues who berated progressives, liberals, democrats, greens, libertarians, etc., for the …

by William John Cox
Any government having the power to prohibit abortions also has the power to require abortions. Any government having the power to prohibit birth control also has the power to forcibly sterilize women …

by BILL RANKIN, RHONDA COOK | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The federal appeals court in Atlanta on Friday halted Troy Anthony Davis’ execution, the third time his life has been spared shortly before he was to be …

by Roseanne Cash | The Nation Magazine
I’d like to formally submit myself to replace Sarah Palin on the GOP ticket. I feel confident that John McCain will see that the very attributes he desired in …