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The Party Won’t Win Back the Middle as Long As It’s Hostage to Social Fundamentalists
Words by Christine Todd Whitman and Robert M. Bostock
Four years ago, in the week after the 2004 presidential election, we were working furiously to put the finishing touches on the book we co-authored, “It’s My Party Too: The Battle for the [...]

Opinion: Should Barack Obama Start His Cabinet With Al Gore?

By Richard Cohen
If there is a single appointment Barack Obama could make to signal how dramatically things will change in Washington, it would be to name Albert Gore Jr. — former House member, former senator, former vice president, former presidential nominee and current Custodian of the Planet — as secretary of state. For all the [...]

Call Him John The Careless

By George Will
Thursday, October 30, 2008; Page A23
From the invasion of Iraq to the selection of Sarah Palin, carelessness has characterized recent episodes of faux conservatism. Tuesday’s probable repudiation of the Republican Party will punish characteristics displayed in the campaign’s closing days.
Some polls show that Palin has become an even heavier weight in John McCain’s [...]

A New Progressive Era?

By Robert Borosage
Today, in the New York Times, an Institute for America’s Future op ad calls on us to “remember who we are,” comparing the present crisis with that our parents and grandparents faced at dawn of the New Deal.
If, as seems likely, Obama is elected and Democrats win greater majorities in both houses of [...]