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Welcome to Progressive Fix!
By Will Marshall
I am pleased to announce the launch of Progressivefix.com, the place for independent-minded progressives and progressive-minded independents.
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Cap-and-Trade and the American Farmer
By Elbert Ventura
One of the more unfortunate developments in the debate over cap-and-trade has been the refusal of the agriculture lobby to sit down at the table and work toward a good compromise with policy makers and business leaders on climate-change law.
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The Morning After Health Care Reform: A Progressive Wake-Up Call
By Scott Winship
If health care reform is enacted in the coming months, progressives will need to focus sincerely on a problem to which they have paid only lip service over the last few months, one that reform is sure to exacerbate: the perilous fiscal health of the federal government.
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Is Reid Wobbling on the "Cadillac Plan" Tax?
By Elbert Ventura
A New York Times editorial today threw its support behind a health reform provision that we've backed in the past: an excise tax on so-called Cadillac plans. But the Times' endorsement came on a weekend when prospects for the tax seemed to dim.
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Explaining Afghanistan Better
By Jim Arkedis
Eugene Robinson is a wonderful writer with whom I quite often agree. But if such a talented, astute observer of the American political landscape hasn't deciphered why we're in Afghanistan, and that those costs are worth bearing, then the White House better prepare for an all-out charm offensive once the strategy and troop-level decisions have been made.
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Race to the Top Begins
By Elbert Ventura
The Department of Education today released the final application for its Race to the Top Fund after a period of public comment and revisions. With the release, the department officially parts the curtain on an ambitious education initiative, one that may well prove to be the closest the Obama reform agenda comes to an unqualified success.
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Ambassador Eikenberry and the Afghan Strategy
By Jim Arkedis
Someone -- possibly the White House’s man in Kabul himself -- seems to be making life tough for U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry.
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Dispatches from the Republican Self-Immolation
By Elbert Ventura
First, from Maine, where a new poll shows that Sen. Olympia Snowe would get trounced in a Republican primary by a more conservative opponent. With the mob whipped up into a RINO-hunting frenzy, the party was willing to lose Arlen Specter, so why not Snowe as well?
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