Jonathan Chait, senior editor at The New Republic where he writes their TRB column as well as his own blog, will join us for a post-election wrap-up and lessons for progressives going forward.

Progressivism on Tap is a lecture and discussion series from the Progressive Studies Program at the Center for American Progress, focused on the history and intellectual traditions of progressivism and liberalism.
 

Throughout history, art has been used to advance discourse on political and social issues. How do artists engage contemporary political and social issues? How is political work developed and incubated? Join the Center for American Progress and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Art's festival "On the Fringe: Eye on Edinburgh" and the Explore the Arts program as artists and policymakers discuss the role of the arts in the political process.

Long an important U.S. ally, and located at a key geographic and economic juncture between Europe and the Middle East, recent changes in Turkey and positions taken by Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan have raised a number of questions about Turkey’s role in the region and the nature of the future U.S.-Turkey relationship. Is Turkey’s newly assertive posture the result of democratic changes and adoption of vigorous free-market principles? Has Turkey chosen to align itself with the "East" over the "West," as some have suggested? What are the implications of Turkey’s impressive economic growth, both for Turkey’s domestic politics and for its foreign policy?

Please join the Center for American Progress for a discussion of these questions.

John Atlas, president of the National Housing Institute and author of Seeds of Change: The Story of ACORN, America's Most Controversial Anti-Poverty Community Group, and Steve Kest, Senior Fellow at CAP and former executive director of ACORN, will discuss the history and the future of community organizing. This is a special joint event with the Progressive Book Club.    

Progressivism on Tap is a lecture and discussion series from the Progressive Studies Program at the Center for American Progress, focused on the history and intellectual traditions of progressivism and liberalism.

The federal government can save between $25 billion and $54 billion a year by changing the way it buys goods and services, according to a new analysis from the Center for American Progress.

But reforming a $500 billion annual acquisition system is a massively complex problem. To put the challenge in perspective, Dr. Ashton Carter of the Defense Department and Anne Rung of the Commerce Department will share their perspectives on promising initiatives being pursued by the Obama administration.

CAP's "Doing What Works" project will release Visiting Fellow Raj Sharma's new analysis, which distills a comprehensive procurement-reform agenda into 10 proven strategies. Please join us for what promises to be a lively discussion.