A blog by Nicholas Solter about politics and everything else
Posted in Civil Rights, Environmentalism, Gay Rights, Health Care, Separation of Church and State, Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2009
As a progressive, I believe that there is still fundamental progress to be made in many areas in the United States, including gay rights, religious tolerance, environmental care, worldwide conflict resolution, and so on. As such, most of my writing on this blog and elsewhere tends to focus on what we could do better. I […]
Posted in Barack Obama, Election 2008, John McCain, Politics on Sep 18th, 2008
Sarah (full disclosure: my sister) is participating in an interesting discussion over at An Angry American. The conversation there is I think quite representative of the political conversation as a whole in this country. Sarah wrote several specific, concrete, points about why she’s voting for Obama: the economy, the war in Iraq, abortion, etc. Her […]
Posted in Feminism on Feb 11th, 2008
Here’s another excellent column by Leonard Pitts, in which he laments the refusal of most people to call themselves “feminist” even when they agree with, and benefit from, the goals of feminism. He compares this phenomenon to a similar one with the word, “liberal,”
“Feminist,” it seems, has ended up in the same syntactical purgatory as […]
Posted in Politics on Oct 8th, 2007
Why did I name this blog “ProudProgressive”?
Simply put, I’m proud to be progressive, liberal, left-wing, or whatever you want to call it. I’m proud of the progress that liberals have made in winning rights for women, racial minorities, gays and lesbians, workers, children, religious minorities, and the disabled. I’m proud of the work liberals have […]