THE LATEST
Interactives | September 5, 2008
The Week in Photos
Highlights from this week include new unemployment numbers, an agreement on Denver's ProComp program, and a quiz on plastics.Public Opinion | September 5, 2008
Election Season Priorities
Election time should be an opportunity to talk about the public's priorities, not biased ideological ones.Media | September 4, 2008
Remember Iraq?
The media buries news of an agreement that could end the war, write Eric Alterman and George Zornick.Energy & Environment | September 3, 2008
How Much Do You Know About Plastic Recycling?
Test your knowledge of which plastics can be recycled and which can't with CAP's interactive quiz. Africa | September 3, 2008
Somalia: A Country in Peril
ENOUGH report outlines the current crisis in Somalia, failed policies, and what needs to be done to get the country back on track.ALSO FROM THE CENTER
- Denver’s Promising Accord: District and Unions Resolve Teacher Pay Issues
- Standoff in Khanaqin: Trouble Brews Between Arabs and Kurds in a Volatile Corner of Iraq
- The Economic Reality of the Past Seven Years: Public Opinion by Ruy Teixeira
- A Moral Prescription: Faith Community Backs Progressive Proposals for Health
A CLOSER LOOK
FOUR PROGRESSIVE PRIORITIES
- Restoring America's global leadership
- Seizing the energy opportunity
- Creating progressive growth
- Delivering universal health care
ASK THE EXPERT
Americans' Dangerous Last Resort
Tim Westrich explains that Americans are turning to more harmful credit card debt to cover rising costs as standards tighten on other types of debt.
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The Terrorism Index
A survey of foreign policy experts on U.S. security, foreign affairs, and America's place in the world.
How to Redeploy
Lawrence J. Korb, Sean Duggan, and Peter Juul detail how to safely redeploy troops from Iraq in 8 to 10 months.
- Understanding Bushonomics: Scott Lilly details the Bush administration's unsustainable and unbalanced economic policies that have led to the current weak state of the U.S. economy.
- America's Middle Class Still Losing Ground: Christian E. Weller and Amanda Logan update their analysis of middle class security; there's no doubt that the middle class is now taking an ever harder hit.
- Wealth Mobility and Volatility in Black and White: A new report finds that wealth may be more fundamental to upward mobility in the United States, and differences exist by race.
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