Blogs: America's Future Now

During a webcast meeting with Organizing for America on Thursday, President Barack Obama outed the covert Republican plot to strangle Medicare to financial death.

He explained to the group that if Congress does nothing, if health care reform fails, "Medicare will run out of money in eight years."

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The media still calls America a “center-right” nation, but “center-left” is closer to the truth. On issues ranging from health care to energy, the public is more progressive than people think. A new report documents the trends and challenges the mainstream media to recognize reality.

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After high-profile arrests on Capitol Hill, there's a very simple question on health care that hasn't been answered: Why are top Democrats afraid to even discuss the concept of a single-payer health care system? This is the question I explore in my latest newspaper column. read more »

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Let's take Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner at his word. If the banks are strong enough to get through the downturn, then can we end the taxpayer bailouts that were supposedly necessary to keep them afloat?

(This is the first in a series of guest posts on issues that will be addressed at the America's Future Now! conference June 1-3 in Washington.)

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While nominations remain open for the Third Annual Maria Leavey Tribute Award, we asked our prior winners how the award has continued to inspire their work.

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The crack reporting team at the New York Times gives us a huge scoop: Newsflash - America is really really angry at a government that keeps giving away taxpayer cash to banks while telling us we need to solve a deficit problem by potentially slashing Social Security. read more »

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Tune in tonight to Bill Moyers Journal on PBS, where I expand on this post and the underlying newspaper column it is based on. read more »

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If you're a procrastinator like me, then you are frantically scurrying at the last minute to pick up holiday gifts for friends and family. So let me suggest four great gifts for you or any progressives you know - gifts that make great presents and that also help build and support the progressive movement. Here they are in no particular order: read more »

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Barack Obama’s historic victory in 2008 spearheaded not only a change election, but a sea-change election. It marks the end of the conservative era that has dominated our politics since 1980, and the beginning of a new era of progressive reform, driven by an emerging progressive majority. read more »

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We've earned the right to spend a few days basking in this well-earned glow. But let's not get complacent, either. The very fact that we won also brings us to a fresh moment of reckoning. We are no longer the loyal opposition; we are now the people in charge. And our next act of transformation will be to come to terms with that fact.

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