The Practical Progressive: How to Build a Twenty-first Century Political Movement

Underneath today's elections is a fierce battle for power driven not by the country's elected officials, but by organizations and people you have never heard of.

Since the 1964 Goldwater defeat, conservative philanthropists have built a set of ideologically-aligned institutions -- think tanks, legal advocacy organizations, watchdog groups, and media vehicles -- to change the country's intellectual and political climate and to assure conservative political dominance.

Progressives finally wok...