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Government Secrets: Bureaucratic Wars on Who Gets Prosecuted
Unlike most government officials, Leon Panetta's reputation has been protected even after the former CIA director offered up highly classified material to an unsecured crowd.

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Social Movements Need To Be Aware of Corporate Influence and Opportunists
Activists should learn from Occupy about the dangers of being co opted.

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The Debate: Independence or Partisanship
The relationship between the Democratic Party and people working for change may result in getting the progressive agenda onto the political agenda.

Robert Strauss’s Watergate Secret
An enduring Watergate mystery is whether Democratic powerbroker Robert Strauss earned his GOP spurs by secretly helping the Republicans in the spy scandal.

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Fat Cats and Suck-Ups
If the Democrats are wondering why their electoral chances in the mid-terms are looking so dismal, they should look no further than the progressive wing of their own increasingly …

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Realistic Left Politics in Texas
In Texas and everywhere else, a realistic politics should challenge not only obvious opponents on the right, but untrustworthy allies in the center.

Debate: Is the Democrats’ Talkathon on Climate Change Just Talk?
Center for American Progress Director of Climate Strategy Daniel Weiss and IPS Fellow Daphne Wysham debate whether the Senate Democrat's all-nighter meant they are serious about tackling global warming.

Has the Left Surrendered? The Overdue Conversation We Need
Has the American left ceased to exist as a viable political force by surrendering its power to a corporatized Democratic Party? That's the argument put forward by political scientist …

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Liberals Face a Hard Day’s Knight?
Democrats and liberals have become too fixated on election results, kowtowing to the status quo.

Adolph Reed Jr.: The Surrender of America’s Liberals
Reed tells Moyers, the left is no longer a significant force in American politics.