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The Road Ahead for Progressives: Back to Basics
by Gara LaMarche and Deepak Bhargava Twenty-one months after Barack Obama was inaugurated on a wave of hope for change in America’s politics and policies, at least two important and seemingly contradictory things can be said. First, there has been a series of significant progressive reforms: an economic…
Author: The Nation
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In the Rearview Mirror, Oklahoma and Death Row
You can never come back, ever. If you plead guilty to that long-ago murder in Oklahoma City, you will be released from prison, where you have spent most of the last 27 years on death row. But once free, you will be banished from Oklahoma.…
Author: The New York Times
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What Progressives Did Right to Win Healthcare
By Richard Kirsch. One year after the Tea Party insurgency disrupted Democratic Congressional town hall meetings, it’s worth asking how healthcare reform survived. By the beginning of 2010, Scott Brown had taken Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, reform proponents had lost the national narrative and voters…
Author: The Nation
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Obama To Pick Berwick For Chief Of Medicare
By Julie Rovner. President Obama will nominate health quality guru Dr. Donald Berwick, the head of the Boston-based Institute for Healthcare Improvement, to run Medicare and Medicaid, administration sources confirm. It’s been a long time coming. The powerful agency has been without a permanent administrator…
Author: NPR
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A Growing Drumbeat from Activists Energizes Drive for Urgent Immigration Reform
This Sunday, I will join 100,000 other supporters of comprehensive immigration reform in the United States – a cause to which Atlantic has been deeply committed since 2004 – in a march on Washington to demand that the U.S. Congress act this year. I hope…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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D.C. Council approves bill legalizing gay marriage
Bill heads to Fenty’s desk, still must survive congressional review period By Tim Craig The D.C. Council gave final approval Tuesday to a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, setting off a wave of excitement in the gay community even as opponents vow to continue the…
Author: Washington Post
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Hate Campaigns Can’t Block Overdue Steps Toward Fair Treatment of Immigrants
Barack Obama’s campaign gave hope to millions of immigrants and their leading advocates. Atlantic has been proud to support and stand with these groups in the long campaign for comprehensive immigration reform. But that hope has been strained of late, and it is time to…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Initiative Focuses on Early Learning Programs
The New America Foundation is an Atlantic grantee. by SAM DILLON Tucked away in an $87 billion higher education bill that passed the House last week was a broad new federal initiative aimed not at benefiting college students, but at raising quality in the early…
Author: The New York Times
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Rising Costs for Nonprofits Overlooked in Healthcare Proposals
Independent Sector is an Atlantic grantee. Nonprofit organizations are upset that Congress and the Obama administration have not addressed their rising healthcare costs in the healthcare reform proposals being floated on Capitol Hill, the New York Times reports. The main bill proposed in the House…
Author: Philanthropy News Digest
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Tricky Road Ahead for Innovation Fund
Original source Teach for America and Grantmakers for Education are Atlantic grantees. By Erik W. Robelen Federal education officials will face a variety of obstacles in running a $650 million innovation fund, from an expected flood of applications and concern about favoritism in picking winners,…
Author: Education Week