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"The essential handbook for thinking and talking Democratic--must reading not only for every Democrat but for every responsible citizen" (Robert B. Reich, former Secretary of Labor and author of Beyond Outrage).

Voters cast their ballots for what they believe is right, for the things that make moral sense. Yet Democrats have too often failed to use...

Liberalism is dying--despite its superficial appearance of vigor. Most of its adherents still believe it is the wave of the future, but they are clinging to a sinking dream. So says Melvyn L. Fein, who argues that liberalism has made countless promises, almost none of which have come true. Under its auspices, poverty was not eliminated, crime did not diminish, the family was not strengthened, education was not improved, nor was universal peace established. These failures were not accidental; they flow directly from liberal contradictions. In Post-Liberalism, Fein demonstrates why...

AMERWRECKA is written in the spirit of Thomas Paine's immortal classic "The American Crisis," which officers read to their troops on Christmas Eve of 1776 before crossing the Delaware to attack the British in the Battle of Trenton. Unlike other books talking about the decline of America or America being at the crossroads, this book shows that America is on the wrong track and headed for its needless destruction unless the President is voted out of office this November. Unlike other authors bemoaning the sad state of affairs in America, Carpenter names names, calls out the bad guys, and...

It's hard work being a liberal these days. When you hate things most Americans love, it's tiring to have to endlessly correct/educate/fix/enlighten the poor dullards out there who just want to enjoy their lives. But it's not too late, liberals, to join the fun C'mon, crack open a Bud and throw another T-bone on the grill. But kindly check your disdain at the door...

More than three decades ago, in The Neoconservatives, Peter Steinfels described a nascent movement, predicting that it would be the sixties' "most enduring legacy to American politics." Now, in a new foreword to that portrait, he traces neoconservatism's fateful...