The Center for American Progress is a progressive American political policy research and advocacy organization. Its website describes it as "...a nonpartisan research and educational institute dedicated to promoting a strong, just and free America that ensures opportunity for all."^[1] Progressivism is a term that refers to a broad school of international social and political philosophies. ... This article is about the institution. ...

Its President and Chief Executive Officer is John Podesta, former chief of staff to former United States President Bill Clinton. Located in Washington, D.C., the Center for American Progress has a campus outreach group, Campus Progress, and a sister liberal advocacy organization, the Center for American Progress Action Fund. John Podesta John David Podesta (b. ... Joshua B. Bolten, the current White House Chief of Staff. ... The presidential seal is a well-known symbol of the presidency. ... William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III[1] on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ... Nickname: Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location of Washington, D.C., in relation to the states Maryland and Virginia Coordinates: , Country United States Federal District District of Columbia Government  - Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D)  - City Council Chairperson: Vincent C. Gray (D) Ward 1: Jim Graham (D) Ward 2: Jack...

The Center is undergoing a period of rapid growth. Its personnel and budget now rival the prominent Cato Institute. The Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. The Institutes stated mission is to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets, and peace by seeking greater involvement of the...

History and mission

The Center for American Progress was created in 2003 as a liberal alternative to think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute. The Center describes its mission as: 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Heritage Foundation is a public policy research institute based in Washington, D.C., in the United States. ... The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) is a conservative think tank, founded in 1943, whose stated mission is to defend the principles and improve the institutions of American freedom and democratic capitalism — limited government, private enterprise, individual liberty and responsibility, vigilant and effective defense and foreign policies...

• developing a long term vision of a progressive America,
• providing a forum to generate new progressive ideas and policy proposals,
• responding effectively and rapidly to conservative proposals and rhetoric with a thoughtful critique and clear alternatives, and
• communicating progressive messages to the American public.

Since its inception, the Center has gathered a group of high-profile senior fellows, including Lawrence Korb, Assistant Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan; Gene Sperling, Director of the National Economic Council under President Bill Clinton; Ruy Teixeira, political scientist and author of The Emerging Democratic Majority; and, most recently, former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle. Lawrence J. Korb is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a Senior Adviser to the Center for Defense Information. ... Assistant Secretary of Defense is a title used for many executive positions in the United States Department of Defense. ... The presidential seal is a well-known symbol of the presidency. ... Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981 – 1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967 – 1975). ... Gene B. Sperling is an American economist and political expert, currently serving as a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. ... The National Economic Council (NEC) is a United States government agency. ... William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III[1] on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ... Ruy Teixeira is a political consultant and commentator. ... The Politics series Politics Portal This box:      Political Science is the field concerning the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behaviour. ... The Senate Minority Leader is a member of the United States Senate who is elected by his or her party conference to serve as the chief Senate spokesmen for his or her party and to manage and schedule the legislative and executive business of the Senate. ... Thomas Andrew Daschle (born December 9, 1947), known as Tom Daschle, was a U.S. Senator from South Dakota and the Senate Majority Leader. ...

The Center manages a radio studio, and offers the studio for use to shows across the ideological spectrum. It is used daily by the Bill Press Show, a syndicated progressive talk radio program broadcast from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m Eastern Time weekday mornings. Jones Radio Networks is the syndicator. Bill Press is the former party chief for the California Democratic Party, a former CNN and MSNBC political commentator, and an accomplished liberal author. ... Progressivism is a term that refers to a broad school of international social and political philosophies. ... Talk radio is a radio format which features discussion of topical issues. ... Metronome, a public art installation showing the time in New York City The Eastern Time Zone (ET) of the Western Hemisphere falls mostly along the east coast of Northern America and the west coast of South America. ...

The Center was often featured prominently on the Al Franken Show on the Air America Radio network, where Christy Harvey and Franken discussed at length alleged dishonesty and incompetence in the Bush Administration. 2004 album cover of the Very Best of the OFranken Factor The Al Franken Show is the flagship talk show of Air America Radio. ... Air America Radio is a liberal talk radio network and program syndication service in the United States. ... Christy Harvey is the Director of Strategic Communications at the Center for American Progress. ...

The Center has no information on its website about its funding, but the Washington Post reported that "...seed money pledged by such deep-pocketed Democrats as financier George Soros and mortgage billionaires Herbert and Marion Sandler..." assisted its formation.^[2] ... George Soros (pronounced ) [Shorosh] (born August 12, 1930, in Budapest, Hungary, as György Schwartz) is an American financial speculator, stock investor, philanthropist, and political activist. ...

The Center helped Congressman John Murtha develop "strategic redeployment"^[3], a comprehensive plan for Iraq that includes a timetable and troop withdrawals. John Patrick “Jack” Murtha, Jr. ...

The Progress Report, Climate Progress and "SEEPROGRESS"

The Center for American Progress publishes a daily email newsletter entitled The Progress Report, which is a recap and analysis of major political news in the United States, providing a progressive perspective on the day's stories. The authors are Faiz Shakir, Nico Pitney, Amanda Terkel, Satyam Khanna, and Matthew Corley. E-mail, or email, is short for electronic mail and is a method of composing, sending, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems. ... Federal courts Supreme Court Chief Justice Associate Justices Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Local Government Other countries Politics Portal      Politics of the United States takes place in a framework of a presidential republic, whereby the President... For other uses, see News (disambiguation). ...

The newsletter has four main sections: 1) in-depth item on a major topic of the day, such as the economy or foreign policy; 2) "Under the Radar," less prominent stories of the day including links to op-eds and news; 3) "Think Fast," links to new stories; and 4) the sidebar, entitled the "Daily Grill," which compares major right wing figures' current remarks with their past remarks.

In addition, The Center for American Progress also publishes a daily global warming blog called Climate Progress. Edited by climate and energy expert Joseph J. Romm, the blog discusses climate science, climate technology solutions and political news related to climate change. It is a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Global mean surface temperatures 1850 to 2006 Mean surface temperature anomalies during the period 1995 to 2004 with respect to the average temperatures from 1940 to 1980 Global warming is the observed increase in the average temperature of the Earths atmosphere and oceans in recent decades and the projected... Dr. Joseph J. Romm was born on June 27, 1960 in Middletown, New York. ... Variations in CO2, temperature and dust from the Vostok ice core over the last 400,000 years For current global climate change, see Global warming. ...

The Center for American Progress began experimenting with video delivered over the internet to complement their policy work in early 2006. This video strategy, currently known as SEEPROGRESS [1], is distributed through the Center's website as well as YouTube and other video distributors such as Google video, Blip.tv and Yahoo! video.

Campus Progress

Campus Progress, launched in February 2005, is the Center for American Progress’s comprehensive effort to strengthen progressive voices on college and university campuses nationwide and to empower new generations of progressive leaders.

Campus Progress has five components:

1. a daily web magazine, CampusProgress.org, offering journalism, analysis, opinions, cartoons, video and organizing tools. CampusProgress.org has 1.8 million readers and has published more than 700 pieces including interviews with Barack Obama, Helen Thomas, Stephen Colbert, Margaret Cho, Larry David and Seymour Hersh. Print editions of the web magazine are distributed on campuses across the nation. The site also features an active blog with hundreds of contributors.

2. support for student publications on more than fifty campuses including Yale, Hampton University, University of Michigan, Vanderbilt University and University of California, Irvine.

3. an events bureau that has sponsored over 350 speaking events, film screenings, debates and training programs.

4. national issue campaigns, as well as action grants that support student issue campaigns on individual campuses. Current Campus Progress campaigns focus on issues including student debt and access to higher education, the Iraq war, global warming and academic freedom. Action grants cover student campaigns on issues from Sudan to living wages, affirmative action to the death penalty.

5. the National Student Conference. The first annual conference was held on July 13, 2005, in Washington DC and featured President Bill Clinton.

From The Nation: “For the first time ever, campus progressives convened, conversed and organized at their own national conference ― something right-wing groups have done annually since the 1970s…The conference left students, from Young Democrats to radical activists, energized and teeming with hope. Almost everyone I spoke with left the conference believing that a real,thriving and broad-based progressive student movement was overdue, necessary and most importantly, possible.”

The second annual conference, held on July 12, 2006, in Washington, featured Senator Barack Obama, and was attended by over 1000 students from 48 states. The third annual conference was held in Washington on June 26, 2007, and featured Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

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Center for American Progress Action Fund

Formerly known simply as the American Progress Action Fund, the Center for American Progress Action Fund is a "sister advocacy organization" and is organizationally and financially separate from the Center for American Progress, although they share many staff and a physical address. Whereas the Center for American Progress is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, the fund is a 501(c)(4), allowing it to devote more funds to lobbying.^[4] 501(c)(3) is a provision of the US tax code that provides exempt status, for Federal income tax purposes, for some non-profit organizations in the United States (see 26 U.S.C. Â§ 501(c)(3)). The term refers to: Section 501. ... 501(c)(4) refers to a provision of the United States Internal Revenue Code providing an exemption from the imposition of Federal income tax for the following kinds of entities: Civic leagues or organizations not organized for profit but operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare, or local associations...

Conservative criticism of The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio

The Center for American Progress has been criticized by conservative commentators for their report titled "The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio" ^[5]. The report, compiled during the spring of 2007, states that, "out of 257 news/talk stations owned by the top five commercial station owners reveals that 91 percent of the total weekday talk radio programming is conservative, and 9 percent is progressive." The report suggests three steps to increase liberal radio voices in talk radio: restoring local and national caps on the ownership of commercial radio stations; ensuring greater local accountability over radio licensing; and require commercial owners who fail to abide by enforceable public interest obligations to pay a fee to support public broadcasting.

Critics contend that there are and have been many outlets for liberal voices in talk radio, including National Public Radio and, until recently, Air America; that previous attempts to create "balance" on talk radio, such as The Fairness Doctrine, violate The First Amendment by restricting speech if it is not balanced by opposing viewpoints; and that media and institutions dominated by liberals -- including the mainstream media, Hollywood and academia ^[6] -- will not be subject to similar restrictions ^{[7] [8] [9]}. Taxpayer-subsized universities and television programming offered on the public airwaves are not addressed in the report. “NPR” redirects here. ... Air America Pilots Cap Air America was an American passenger and cargo airline covertly owned and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). ... The Fairness Doctrine was a regulation of the United States Federal Communications Commission which required broadcast licensees to present controversial issues of public importance, and to present such issues in what was deemed an honest, equal and balanced manner. ...

References

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External links

• Center for American Progress
• American Progress Action Fund
• Campus Progress
• Climate blog of the Center for American Progress Action Fund
• Think Progress political blog
• Center for American Progress Video