ThinkProgress is an American political blog edited by Faiz Shakir that "provide[s] a forum that advances progressive ideas and policies". It is an outlet of the Center for American Progress

Center for American Progress

The Center for American Progress is a progressive public policy research and advocacy organization. Its website states that the organization is "dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through progressive ideas and action." It has its headquarters in Washington D.C.Its President and Chief...

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Sections

Since a 2011 re-design, the blog operates a number of sections:

1. Economy
2. Green
3. Health
4. Justice
5. LGBT
6. Security

Contributors

The blog is edited by CAP Vice President Faiz Shakir. Other contributors include:

• Ben Armbruster
• Amanda Peterson Beale
• Eli Clifton
• Marie Diamond
• Josh Dorner
• Matt Duss
• Lee Fang
  Lee Fang
  Lee Fang is an investigative researcher and blogger. He writes for The Progress Report and ThinkProgress. Fang has drawn attention for a 2010 article about the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.-Early Life and Career:...
  
  
• Zack Ford
• Pat Garofalo
• Ali Gharib
• Christy Goldfuss
• Zaid Jilani
• Brad Johnson
• Scott Keyes
• Stephen Lacey
• Judd Legum
• Ian Millhiser
• Alex Seitz-Wald
• Tanya Somander
• Jeff Spross
• Igor Volsky
• Travis Waldron

Alyssa Rosenberg

Alyssa Rosenberg is a contributor to The Atlantic and The Washington Monthly

The Washington Monthly

The Washington Monthly is a bimonthly nonprofit magazine of United States politics and government that is based in Washington, D.C.The magazine's founder is Charles Peters, who started the magazine in 1969 and continues to write the "Tilting at Windmills" column in each issue. Paul Glastris, former...

, and writes on culture for ThinkProgress.

Climate Progress

Edited by climate and energy expert Joseph J. Romm

Joseph J. Romm

Joseph J. Romm is an American author, blogger, physicist and climate expert who concentrates on methods of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and global warming and increasing energy security through energy efficiency, green energy technologies and green transportation technologies...

, the blog discusses climate science, climate and energy technology solutions and political news related to climate change

Climate change

Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions or the distribution of events around that average...

. In 2008, Time

Time (magazine)

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magazine named this blog one of the "Top 15 Green Websites", writing that it "counters bad science and inane rhetoric with original analysis delivered sharply.... Romm occupies the intersection of climate science, economics and policy.... On his blog and in his most recent book, Hell and High Water

Hell and High Water (book)

Hell and High Water: Global Warming — the Solution and the Politics — and What We Should Do is a book by author, scientist, and former U.S. Department of Energy official Joseph J. Romm, published December 26, 2006...

, you can find some of the most cogent, memorable, and deployable arguments for immediate and overwhelming action to confront global warming." In 2009, Thomas L. Friedman, in his column in The New York Times, called the blog "indispensable", and Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

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magazine named Romm to its list of "100 People Who Are Changing America". Time magazine named Romm one of its "Heroes of the Environment (2009)

Heroes of the Environment (2009)

Heroes of the Environment is a list published in Time Magazine. The third list was published in September 2009. The list contains 30 entries, individuals or groups that have contributed substantially to the preservation of environment, and is divided into four categories: Leaders & Visionaries,...

", calling him "The Web's most influential climate-change blogger" and, in 2010, it included Climate Progress in a list of the 25 "Best Blogs of 2010" Romm's 2010 book, Straight Up

Straight Up (book)

Straight Up: America's Fiercest Climate Blogger Takes on the Status Quo Media, Politicians, and Clean Energy Solutions is a book by author, blogger, physicist and climate expert Joseph J. Romm. A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and former Acting Assistant...

is a compilation of some of his best blog entries from Climate Progress, with introductions and analysis by Romm.

The Progress Report

The CAP, through ThinkProgress, publishes a daily email

Email

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 newsletter entitled The Progress Report, which is a recap and analysis of major political

Politics of the United States

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 news in the United States, providing a progressive perspective on the day's stories. The authors are Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Satyam Khanna, Matthew Corley, Ali Frick, and Benjamin Armbruster.

Former features

The newsletter formerly had four main sections:

1. in-depth item on a major topic of the day, such as the economy
   Economic system
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   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.

The Wonk Room

In addition, the Wonk Room was a blog under ThinkProgress which was published until 2011.