October 10, 2010
Countering the Enthusiasm Gap
What a difference two years make in times as serious as these. Two Novembers ago, all was hope and glory on the center-left in American politics, all was despair and despondency on the center-right. read more »
April 12, 2010
Chapter 1: April 2010 update
ZP Heller posted an excellent piece on The Huffington Post on April 1 that is well worth reading if you can get to it. It is entitled ‘Ten Things You Can Do to Help Progressive Journalism”. The fact that ZP Heller had to post it at all speaks to his main initial point: the huge […] read more »
January 15, 2010
Chapter 1: January 2010 Update
The need for a “moving left show” could not have been more visibly demonstrated than by the loss of Senator Kennedy’s Senate seat to the Republicans in the special election held in January 2010. The result triggered these thoughts, first put on tpmcafe January 20 2010, the morning after the defeat. read more »
December 4, 2009
Chapter 1: Introduction
As Answering Back went to press, Ruy Teixeira published his survey of American political opinion at the start of the Obama presidency, New Progressive America (Washington, Center for American Progress, March 2009). Teixeir’s general thesis is that America is no longer a center-right political culture but a more center-left one. ‘It is clear,” he wrote […] read more »
