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Pursuing the Global Common Good
When is war justified? Is the use of torture ever acceptable? These are some of the issues in a new book by policy experts and faith leaders, published by the Center for American Progress.
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April 19, 2008
Torture Team shows that those who drew up the United States' post-9/11 policy on interrogation were woefully inexperienced and badly advised.
By Ken Gude
April 8, 2008
U.S. commitment to human rights should reflect the best of American tradition, says a new book edited by CAP's Bill Schulz.
By Bill Schulz
March 20, 2008
If Americans overwhelmingly support progressive policies, why are so many of them afraid to call themselves "liberal"? Eric Alterman has an answer.
By Eric Alterman, George Zornick
February 19, 2008
New book from CAP's Sen. Tom Daschle and Jeanne Lawbrew lays out a plan to reform America's broken health care system.
January 16, 2008
New book from Lawrence Korb and Winslow Wheeler examines the successes and failures of the military reform movement in Congress and the Pentagon.
January 8, 2008
Science Progress reviews Scott Page's new book on how diversity can create better groups, firms, schools, and societies.
By Andrew Plemmons Pratt
December 14, 2007
New book from Nina Hachigian and Mona Sutphen shows how key nations have a common stake in the world economy and national security threats.
November 2, 2007
New book from Rep. Jay Inslee and CAP Senior Fellow Bracken Hendricks lays out the path to stop global warming and gain energy independence.
By Rep. Jay Inslee, Bracken Hendricks
August 7, 2007
By Joseph Romm
June 27, 2007
At a CAP event Matthew Nesbit and Chris Mooney suggest better ways to "frame" science and avoid misunderstanding.
June 11, 2007
By Jonathan D. Moreno
April 17, 2007
By Ben Adler
April 9, 2007
At a CAP book event, Dr. Obery Hendricks discusses Jesus’ identity as a political revolutionary who worked to overturn social injustice.
February 20, 2007
Peter Swire reviews Alastair Roberts' newest book on government accountability and information disclosure.
By Peter Swire
January 25, 2007
Dinesh D’Souza’s new book blaming the left for 9/11 can’t be dismissed, unfortunately, as politically beyond the conservative pale.
By Eric Alterman
January 8, 2007
Campus Progress reviews Infotopia, Cass Sunstein's new book on how the Internet helps us put our heads together.
By Graham Webster
December 21, 2006
Campus Progress talks with the author of The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason.
By Ben Adler
December 8, 2006
New book by Jonathan Moreno explores the ethical issues surrounding the emerging uses of neuroscience in national defense.
October 26, 2006
This new edition examines the role of the federal bureaucracy in formulating U.S. national security policy.
By Morton H. Halperin, Priscilla A. Clapp, Arnold Kanter
October 25, 2006
By Matt Miller
October 10, 2006
New book featured at Center event calls on unions to recognize competition and adapt to the global economy.
October 3, 2006
George Lakoff and the Rockridge Institute release a new handbook for progressive Americans.
September 28, 2006
Panelists discuss new book by David Callahan about how progressives can more effectively speak to Americans’ value concerns.
September 22, 2006
Center for American Progress event discusses a new book on how the lack of elites in the military hurts America.
September 19, 2006
At CAP event, Rev. Bob Edgar calls on progressives to take new approaches for organizing the religious left.
April 20, 2006
By Bruce Ackerman
January 20, 2006
By Ronald B. Mincy, Charles E. Lewis Jr., Wen-Jui Hahn
January 20, 2006
By Peter Edelman, Harry J. Holzer, Paul Offner
January 15, 2006
The first chapter of a new book edited by Richard N. Block, Sheldon Friedman, Michelle Kaminski, and Andy Levin.
June 15, 2005
By Sheryll Cashin
April 20, 2005
By James Gustave Speth
February 15, 2005
By Asra Nomani
February 2, 2005
By Lawrence J. Korb
January 1, 2005
By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
October 26, 2004
By William L. Taylor
October 1, 2004
By Jael Silliman, Marlene Gerber Fried, Loretta Ross, Elena R. Gutierrez
September 22, 2004
By Thomas McGarity, Sidney Shapiro, David Bollier
September 20, 2004
By Thomas Carothers
September 1, 2004
By Jason DeParle
August 20, 2004
By John B. Judis
July 1, 2004
By Lorelei Kelly, Elizabeth Turpen
May 24, 2004
By Tom Clancy
April 30, 2004
By Joseph Wilson
April 20, 2004
By Joel S. Wit, Daniel Poneman, Robert L. Gallucci