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Building a progressive U.S. politics means looking beyond the back-and-forth swings of each election cycle.

The expanding rights of corporate “people” are creating an ever-greater gap between America’s democratic ideals and political reality.

The unshakable notion that everyone in the country is middle class has helped push us ever closer to a society where nobody is.

The United States may be in geopolitical decline, but futurist predictions do not make the work ahead of us any less demanding.

Would we not be a more humane, more responsible country if we spent far less on arms?

State taxes on the highest earners have not caused the wealthy to flee, and they have helped prevent some painful social service cuts.

Public sector unions are among the only institutions that still stand against the unchecked influence of corporations. And they are under attack.

Mark Engler quoted in a Russian article about Obama’s first 100 days.

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Mark Engler quoted in a Hungarian article on Latin American populism.