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ProgressiveFix.com offers an alternative to polarized online debate

WASHINGTON, DC – Amid mounting public frustration with America’s deadlocked political system and an increasingly polarized discourse, the Progressive Policy Institute launches ProgressiveFix.com.

“The time is ripe for the first true online home for the progressive center,” said Will Marshall, president of PPI. “We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to create a lasting majority, but only if progressives govern effectively.”

ProgressiveFix.com offers a new platform to advance innovative ideas for progressive reform that will also serve as a gathering place for pragmatic progressives.

Progressive Fix is the new face of a think tank that, over the past two decades, has helped to modernize and reshape the progressive agenda. Called “Bill Clinton’s idea mill” in the previous decade, PPI generated many pioneering policy ideas including national service, work-based social policy and public charter schools.

ProgressiveFix.com will feature blog posts, policy memos, reports and book reviews from an eclectic mix of established names and rising stars in the progressive community. Among the bylines that will grace the site in the coming weeks include Ed Kilgore, Jagdish Bhagwati, William Galston, Jeremy Rosner, Elaine Kamarck, Clay Risen, Scott Winship and David Rothkopf.

“Building a sustainable progressivism will require tempering ideological passion with pragmatism, expanding, not narrowing our appeal to the electorate and standing up to special interests, even on our own side,” said Marshall.

PPI and ProgressiveFix.com will stand for a focused agenda that:

• Promotes a progressive national security strategy
• Champions economic entrepreneurship and innovation
• Makes America the world’s leader in clean energy
• Modernizes our infrastructure
• Restores fiscal responsibility
• Reforms public education to ensure equal opportunity for every child

For more information, visit www.progressivefix.com or contact Steven Chlapecka by email schlapecka@ppionline.org or via phone 202.525.3931.

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