Progress 2050

Progress 2050 is a project of the Center for American Progress that develops new ideas for an increasingly diverse America. The United States will become a nation with no clear racial or ethnic majority by the year 2050. This expected transition provides the progressive movement with an exciting opportunity to help America live up to its ideals of equality and justice for all.
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Separate and Unequal Report
La enmienda del representante Henry Hyde (R-IL) que prohíbe la cobertura del aborto por Medicaid se ha traspasado a varios programas gubernamentales. (AP/David Karp)

Separate and Unequal

Jessica Arons and Madina Agénor explain how the Hyde Amendment is a policy that not only violates reproductive rights and principles of gender equity but one that undermines racial and economic justice as well.

Jessica Arons, Madina Agénor

Stop the Conference Report
La aprobación de la S.B. 1070 desencadenó una acalorada reacción pública a nivel nacional en contra de Arizona y causó que varias organizaciones nacionales y líderes de opinión llamen por un boicot económico. La industria de convenciones de Arizona sintió los efectos de esta reacción de forma inmediata cuando importantes grupos e asociaciones empezaron a cancelar sus eventos y convenciones en el estado. (iStockphoto)

Stop the Conference

Marshall Fitz and Angela Kelley explain the economic and fiscal consequences of conference cancellation as a result of S.B. 1070, Arizona's harsh, anti-immigrant legislation.

Marshall Fitz, Angela Maria Kelley

All in the Family Article
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and his wife, Cindy McCain, leave their polling station Tuesday, November 2, 2010, in Phoenix after casting their ballots. (AP/Matt York)

All in the Family

A telling family dispute over allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in our military reveals Sen. McCain’s strategy of delay, writes Sam Fulwood III.

Sam Fulwood III

The Civil War Today Article
Robert F. Costello is dressed as Abraham Lincoln on Monday, October 25, 2010, in Trenton, NJ, as he joins Civil War reenactors in part of the state’s sesquicentennial (150th) observation and commemoration of New Jersey’s part in the Civil War. (AP/Mel Evans)

The Civil War Today

Sam Fulwood III braces for a parade of Civil War anniversaries and what they will mean to today’s polarized electorate, particularly Tea Party patriots.

Sam Fulwood III

The Essence of Marriage Article
Aisha Mills, left, and Danielle Moodie-Mills, right, recently became the first black lesbian couple featured in Essence.com. (Craig Paulson Photography)

The Essence of Marriage

Newlyweds Aisha and Danielle Moodie-Mills move beyond the black community’s own “don’t ask, don’t tell” policies, writes Sam Fulwood III.

Sam Fulwood III

Shelter Needed Amid the Housing Storm Article
In their conscious decisions to reap short-term profits and ignore long-term consequences, shady wheeler-dealers aided and abetted the poor in their desperate overreach for the American Dream. (AP/Reed Saxon)

Shelter Needed Amid the Housing Storm

Earth to conservatives: Poor people didn’t cause our housing crisis, but they do face a housing crisis today, writes Sam Fulwood III.

Sam Fulwood III

Beyond Arizona Report
The raging political firestorm over Arizona's new immigration law will not end until constitutionally sound federal solutions are in place. (AP/George Frey)

Beyond Arizona

Report from Gebe Martinez argues that without real federal solutions frustration over our broken immigration system will continue to rise.

Gebe Martinez

In Whose Backyard? Article
Asian American women who largely staff nail salons come into constant contact with many toxic ingredients in nail care products that are largely unregulated in the United States. (AP/Mike Derer)

In Whose Backyard?

Dangerous chemicals affect all Americans, but disproportionately harm communities of color that often live and work in closer proximity to them.

Whitney Maddox

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