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Back to All Articles | View Printable Articles and commentary -updated 6/14/10(for Excerpts from selected articles click here)
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Our World one human family living together on planet earth with justice, peace and sustainability
Our Basic Human Pleasures: Food, Sex and Giving
From Now on, Equality Needs to Be Our Organizing Principle - by Johann Hari, April 15, 2009 by Huffington Post
Cassandras of Climate by Paul Krugman, New York Times, September 28, 2009
U.S. most admired country globally: survey by Patricia Reaney, Reuters - October 5, 2009
There is No Tomorrow by Bill Moyers - February 4, 2005
Worldview the way we see the world and our place in it, philosophy of life
The Progressive Conscience in Action by Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite. Center for American Progress, April 6, 2009
America has embraced the values of progress by Gordon Brown - The Guardian, UK, November 9, 2008
Americans Are Now More Closely Aligned With Progressive Ideas Than at Any Time in Memory, By Joshua Holland, AlterNet, May 30, 2009
Ironies of a Devout Non-Ideologue by E.J. Dionne Jr - Washington Post, April 27, 2009
Conservative Worldview
Making sense of the conservative worldview
How Radio Wrecks the Right by John Derbyshire, The American Conservative, February 2009
Radical Right - The Very Real Threat Of Extremism, The Progress Report, June 11, 2009 Compare Worldviews
Who's afraid of freedom and tolerance?
A major difference between conservatives and progressives by Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com, March 24, 2009 (including updates II and III)
State of Political Ideology, 2009 - A National Study of Values and Beliefs from the Center for American Progress
Faith and Values - the universal mystery, ethics, morals, religion, spirituality, emotions
The Future of Faith with Dr. Harvey Cox by David Crumm, Read the Spirit.com, October 7, 2009
Barna Survey Examines Changes in Worldview Among Christians over the Past 13 Years - 2009
Obama and Pragmatism - thinking through values by Robert Reich, posted on TAPPED – group blog of The American Prospect, May 2009
Progressive Vision and Principles by George Lakoff from Don’t Think of an Elephant, 2004
AIG Bonus Scandal Spotlights the Bankruptcy of Wall Street's "Greed is Good" Values by Robert Creamer - HuffingtonPost.com, March 15, 2009
America Is in Need of a Moral Bailout by Chris Hedges - March 23, 2009 by TruthDig.com, distributed by CommonDreams.org
A Resilient Christianity - by E.J. Dionne Jr. Washington Post, April 12, 2009
Faith and Reason - about PBS series - Bill Moyers talks to writers from around the world about the growing divide between faith and reason - by Pamela Miller, Minneapolis Star Tribune, June 24, 2006
Going beyond God - an interview with Karen Armstrong, Historian and former - Armstrong says the afterlife is a "red herring," hating religion is a pathology and that many Westerners cling to infantile ideas of God - by Steve Paulson May 30, 2006
Obama Family Values by Joel Kotkin - Forbes.com, January 20, 2009
See How They Love One Another by Gary G. Kohls, MD for Every Church A Peace Church
Reason - ways of knowing - thinking - education - logic - higher level thinking
Glenn Beck's Hotline to Nowhere by Thomas Frank
The Creative Class as a Catalyst for Progressive Change by Stephen McGovern, Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 30, 2007, posted on allacademic.com.
Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone? Pragmatism and partisanship combine to stifle the spirit of independent thinking in America, by Chilton Williamson Jr. The American Conservative, June 19, 2006
Are we dumb and getting dumber? Susan Jacoby thinks so by Susan Albright, MinnPost.com, April 8, 2008
Why We Need New Ways of Thinking - by Barry Boyce, Shambhala Sun, September 2008
Elegy for a Toxic Logic, and carpe diem for what comes next - by Rebecca Solnit, Orion magazine, January/February 2009
How religious thought lights up your brain - a book review by Michael Gerson, Washington Post , April 16, 2009, of How God Changes Your Brain coauthored by Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman
It's The Personality Organization, Stupid! by Frank Morris, 2006
Learning How to Think by Nicholas D. Kristof - New York Times, March 26, 2009
Lizard Brains by Joyce Marcel - CommonDreams.org, November 19, 2008
Obama and the War on Brains by Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times, March 26, 2009
Public Intellectuals, Inc. by Jeffrey R. Di Leo - by InsideHigherEd.com, February 8, 2008
The Power of Negative Thinking by Barbara Ehrenreich - New York Times Op-Ed, September 24, 2008
Science of Mindfulness - Jon Kabat-Zinn, Interview with Krista Tibbett on Speaking of Faith, April 17, 2009
Redux Anti-Intellectualism by Stuart Whatley, HuntingtonPost.com, April 14, 2009
How Anti-Intellectualism Is Destroying America by Terrence McNally, AlterNet, August 15, 2008
10 Unsolved Mysteries Of The Brain by David Eagleman, Discover Magazine, July 31, 2007
Vision - American Dream, creativity, future problem solving
A New Vision: The Speech I Want the Democratic Nominee To Give by Theodore C. Sorensen, Washington Monthly, June 28, 2007
Coming Soon: The 21st Century by E. J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post, December 30, 2008
It’s Not Going to Be OK by Chris Hedges, February 2, 2009 by TruthDig.com
My Vision of a Compassionate Future by The Dalai Lama, Washington Post, October 21, 2007
What Kind of Country? by Gary Dorrien, pbs.org, October 27, 2008
America
Culture - customs - public square - trends - demographics - zeitgeist
A Nation Transformed By Women from the Center for American Progress
Political Ideology of the Millennial Generation, A National Study of Political Values and Beliefs Among 18- to 29-Year-Old Adults by John Halpin, Karl Agne, Center for American Progress, May 13, 2009
Progressivism Goes Mainstream by John Halpin and Ruy Teixeira - The Prospect, April 20, 2009
Building a Culture of Trust in Politics - by Joe Brewer, cognitivepolicyworks.com, May 2, 2009
Economics/capitalism
Rethinking Capitalism: How Very Enterprising By Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post, October 2, 2009
A Long Way Down New York Times editorial, September 16, 2009
The belief that the wealthy are worthy is waning by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, March 19, 2009
Government has been spreading the wealth for many decades, Editorial, Washington Post, November 2, 2008
Awake and Sing! by Frank Rich - New York Times, April 12, 2009
The Coming Capitalist Consensus by Walden Bello - December 24, 2008, Foreign Policy in Focus
Understanding Bushonomics: How We Got Into This Mess In the First Place - Center for American Progress, August 7, 2008
Inequality crisis bad for all of us - by Dane Smith, president, Growth & Justice
Main Street Before Wall Street by David Korten - YES! Magazine, posted by CommonDreams.org, September 25, 2008
US Income Gap Widens, Richest Share Hits Record by Karey Wutkowski, Reuters, October 12, 2007
Poll Conducted for Aspen Ideas Festival Shows 'American Dream' Unreachable for Most Americans - The Aspen Institute, Aspen, Colorado - July 6, 2006
Redistributing Wealth To The Rich - The Progress Report, October 24, 2008
Education
Obama Gets Personal About Education By Dan Froomkin, Washington Post, March 10, 2009
Good Government
For 30 years Republicans have lied about the role of government. Now Obama's got to tell the truth - by Joan Walsh, Salon.com, February 4, 2009
Exit Mr. Kaine - Virginia's 70th governor and the politics
How Corporate Personhood Threatens Democracy
Make federal agency performance an issue - Editorial in Minneapolis StarTribune, June 22, 2008
Making Federal Jobs Cool Once Again - by Fred Hiatt, Washington Post, April 27, 2009
Democracy government - law - elections - politics - parties - citizenship - progressive movement
Where Did ‘We’ Go? by Thomas Friedman, New York Times, September 30, 2009
Paranoia Strikes Deep by Paul Krugman
Paideia - Astra Taylor interviewing Dr. Cornel West, November 15, 2009
2010 Threat to Democrats Comes From Three Directions by Dan Balz, Washington Post, October 18, 2009
Right-Wing Terrorism Must Be Stopped, By Rachel Maddow, MSNBC, Alternet.org, June 8, 2009
What do neocons have to do with Obama? by Jacob Bronsther, Christian Science Monitor, September 29, 2009
What Have We Done to Democracy? by Arundhati Roy, September 28, 2009
The Public Imperative by Roger Cohen, New York Times, October 5, 2009
5 Ways to Build a Fascist-Proof America by Sara Robinson, Campaign for America's Future, August 27, 2009
Corruption Is Dangerous to Your Health by Robert Borosage - HuffingtonPost.com May 6, 2009
Democracy in America Is a Series of Narrow Escapes, and We May Be Running Out of Luck by Bill Moyers - May 17, 2008 by www.CommonDreams.org
Discovering What Democracy Means by Bill Moyers - February 12, 2007 by TomPaine.com
Mutual Obligation and the American Social Contract - by Stuart M. Butler, Ph.D., Heritage Lecture #1107, January 29, 2009
Gore's Speech on Constitutional Crisis - Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.on Monday, January 16, 2006
Examining the Wrecking Crew by Thomas Frank - Thomas Frank takes on what he calls the destructiveness of conservatives - book review By Glenn C. Altschuler, baltimoresun.com, August 10, 2008
Whatever Happened to "We the People"? by Thom Hartmann - An excerpt from Thom Hartmann's new book, Cracking the Code: How to Win Hearts, Change Minds, and Restore
Politics
Tea Parties begin to think strategically
How Bush Destroyed the Republican Party by Sean Wilentz
The Decline (and Fall) of the G.O.P.? by Robert Brent Toplin - History News Network - Because the Past is the Present, and the Future too, George Mason University, 5-04-09
The Politics of Spite by Paul Krugman, New York Times, October 5, 2009
Change
Changing the World by Bob Herbert, New York Times, October 27, 2009
Why Change Happens: Ten Theories by Sara Robinson - The Campaign for America's Future, May 13, 2008
Let’s Get Fundamental by David Brooks, New York Times, September 4, 2009
It’s Not Going to Be OK by Chris Hedges, Published on February 2, 2009 by TruthDig.com
Communications
The PolicySpeak Disaster for Health Care by George Lakoff , Huffington Post, August 20, 2009
Ending the Hidden Agenda Behind Tax Cuts by Joe Brewer - Cognitive Policy Works, February 16, 2009
The Philosophy Behind the Words by George Lakoff - The Huffington Post, August 26, 2008
Framing - Basics by Phyllis Stenerson, 2005
Worldview and Framing - a synopsis by Phyllis Stenerson - February 2005
Campaign finance, lobbying
Money-Changers in Democracy's Temple by William S. Becker
Spiritual Politics developing public policy with people having priority over money and power more articles about spiritual politics
The American Creed: A Spiritual and Patriotic Primer by Forrest Church, thenation.com , February 2005
Society as the Subject of Redemption
UF study recasts political ‘God gap’ theory
Poll - Conservative & Progressive Religious
The religious left - An old tradition for a new day
Progressive values as articulated by selected organizations
Building Global Justice: We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For by Jim Wallis
Caritas in Veritate: Spiritual Trumps Secular in Encyclical posted by Samuel Gregg, July 9, 2009 on Zenit, the Catholic news agency.
A New Faith and Politics Fight: Religious Progressives Vs. the Religious Left by Dan Gilgoff, U.S.News, March 31, 2009
Religious Left - Evangelicals on the left promote acceptance, acceptance, social justice and equality by Robyn Hyden, vanderbiltorbis.com, March 23, 2009
Changes in Worldview Among Christians - 2009
Barna Survey Examines Changes in Worldview Among Christians over the Past 13 Years - 2009
More Atheists Shout It From the Rooftops by Laurie Goodstein, New York Times, April 27, 2009
More Evangelicals, More Atheists - American Religious Identification Survey - The American Prospect
Obama And the Rise of Secular Spirituality - by Deepak Chopra and Dave Stewart, Beliefnet.com, January 18, 2009
Obama Says Faith Shouldn't Be Used to Divide - President Obama addressed the National Prayer Breakfast , Washington Post, February 5, 2009
Reclaiming America’s Soul by Paul Krugman, New York Times, April 24, 2009
The End of Christian America by Jon Meacham, Newsweek, posted on the internet April 5, 2009 - from the magazine issue dated April 13, 2009
Faith Isn't Under Fire - followup to The End of Christian America by Jon Meacham, Newsweek Web Exclusive, April 8, 2009
Red Faith, Blue Faith (response to Newsweek story) by Michael Gerson, Washington Post, April 17, 2009
Obama And the Rise of Secular Spirituality by Deepak Chopra and Dave Stewart, BeliefNet.org, January 18, 2009
Progressive Narrative
If you think 2009 was fun, just wait until '10 heats up
Real moral values - Articulating a liberal religious moral vision
Progressive Movement more articles about progressive movement
Without a movement, progressives can't aid Obama
Transformation more articles about transformation
Seeking a Cultural Revolution: From Consumerism to...
The 21st Century: In God's earthquake, Domination or Community
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The Declaration of Independence - July 4, 1776
The Constitution with all amendments including the Bill of Rights - September 17, 1787
The Constitution - Commentary, quotations and background
Commentaries by Phyllis Stenerson
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