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Progressive Diary offers informal observations on progressive life and governance. Essays offers formal writing on progressive principles, policies, and issues and the state of the nation.

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Barack Obama and the Question of Delivering
—January 3, 2009
Leading up to the presidential inauguration of Barack Obama, I have heard a lot of people asking aloud whether Obama will be able to deliver all that everyone expects of him. They usually start the question with "I just wonder if..." or "We'll see whether..."—as though they are pondering a weighty question about matters beyond our reach, whose outcome will mean salvation or perdition for us all. What a grandiose, dreamy question! ... Read more.

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America's First Progressives

The states "must have principles furnished them whereon to found their opposition. The declaration of rights will be the text whereby they will try all the acts of the federal government...."
—Thomas Jefferson, letter to Washington, 1789