John Kenneth Galbraith (October 15 1908-April 29 2006) was an influential Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of 20th century American liberalism and progressivism. His books on economic topics were bestsellers in the 1950s and 1960s. Galbraith was a prolific author who produced four dozen books and over a thousand articles on various subjects. Among his most famous works was a popular trilogy on economics, …

Thomas Loren Friedman, OBE (born July 20, 1953), is an American journalist, author and a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He is an op-ed contributor to "The New York Times", whose column appears twice weekly and mainly addresses topics on foreign affairs. Friedman is known for supporting a compromise resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, modernization of the Arab world, environmentalism and globalization.

Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger (October 15 1917 - February 28 2007), was an American historian and social critic whose work explored the liberalism of American political leaders including Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy, as well as the men who surrounded Andrew Jackson. He served as Special Assistant to the President in John F. Kennedy's administration. He wrote a detailed account of the Kennedy administration, …

Duncan Bowen Black (born February 18 1972), better known by his pseudonym Atrios, is an American liberal blogger living in Philadelphia. His weblog "Eschaton" is one of the most popular political weblogs, receiving an average of over 100,000 hits every day. Black was also a regular commentator on Air America Radio's "The Majority Report".

Michael Tomasky is a liberal American journalist and author. Tomasky was born and raised in Morgantown, West Virginia. He is a columnist at "New York magazine", where he has written "The City Politic" column since 1995. His work has also appeared in "The New York Times Book Review", "The Washington Post", "Harper's Weekly", "The Nation", "The Village Voice", "The New York Review of Books", "Dissent", …

Herbert David Croly (January 23, 1869 - May 17, 1930) was a liberal political author. He was born in New York City to Jane Cunningham Croly and David Goodman Croly. His mother wrote for the "New York World" and edited "Demorest's Monthly". His father was a reporter for the "New York Herald" and the "New York World". __TOC_

Hugo LaFayette Black (February 27, 1886-September 25, 1971) was an American politician and jurist. A member of the Democratic Party, Black represented the state of Alabama in the United States Senate from 1926 to 1937, and served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1937 to 1971. Widely regarded as one of the most influential Supreme Court justices in the 20th century, …

JEFF JARVIS is former TV critic for TV Guide and People, creator of Entertainment Weekly, Sunday editor and associate publisher of the NY Daily News, and a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner. He was until recently president & creative director of Advance.net , the online arm of Advance Publications.

Timothy Francis Robbins (born October 16, 1958) is an American Academy Award-winning actor, screenwriter, director, producer, activist and small time musician. He is the longtime partner of actress Susan Sarandon, with whom he shares strong liberal political views.

Louis Filler (May 2, 1911 - December 22, 1998), a Philadelphia-reared, Columbia-trained writer on muckraking and abolitionism from 1939 to 1998, taught American civilization at Antioch College from 1946 to 1976. His anthologies and essays on Americans who influence public perception and values, as journalists, essayists, writers of fiction, editors, public speakers, poets, and politicians, …

Norman Cousins was a prominent political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate. Cousins was born in Union City, New Jersey. At age 11, he was misdiagnosed with tuberculosis and placed in a sanatorium. Despite this, he was an athletic youth, and he claimed that as a young boy, he had “set out to discover exuberance.” After graduating from Union Hill High School, he received a Bachelor’s degree from Teachers College, …

James Bradford DeLong (b. June 24 1960, Boston) is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury in the Clinton Administration. He writes a popular blog, "Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal", which covers political, technical, and economic issues as well as criticism of their coverage in the media. He is also the author of a textbook, …

Chester Bliss Bowles was a liberal Democratic American diplomat and politician from Connecticut. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Bowles attended Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut, graduating in 1919, and the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in 1924. After working for a year as a reporter, …

Freda Kirchwey (1893-1976) was an American journalist, editor, and publisher strongly committed throughout her career to liberal causes. From 1933 to 1955, she was Editor of "The Nation" magazine.

Harlow Shapley was an American astronomer. He was born on a farm in Nashville, Missouri, and dropped out of school with only the equivalent of a fifth-grade education. After studying at home and covering crime stories as a newspaper reporter, Shapley returned to complete a six-year highschool program in only two years, graduating as class valedictorian. In 1907, at the age of 22, Harlow Shapley went to study journalism at University of Missouri.

Peter N. Kirstein, Ph.D. is a professor of history at Saint Xavier University in Chicago, Illinois. He completed his doctorate at Saint Louis University. Kirstein is also a liberal known for his anti-war views and animate lectures, presenting himself as a pacifist with his motto, “Resist War. Demand Academic Freedom. Defend the Vulnerable.” He gained notoriety for denouncing a military cadet a little over a year after the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks.

Bernie Ward, (b. April 5, 1951 in San Francisco, California), is a nighttime talk radio host on popular KGO 810 AM in his native San Francisco. Ward hosts a nightly 'news talk' show from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Monday through Friday, and "Godtalk" on Sundays from 6 to 9 a.m. He is a Roman Catholic and former priest of the Catholic Society of the Precious Blood order. In promotions for his show, KGO often bills him as Lion of the Left.

Craig Crawford is a writer and television political commentator based in Washington D.C., a columnist for "Congressional Quarterly", and the author of "Attack the Messenger: How Politicians Turn You Against the Media" (2005) ISBN 0-7425-3816-8 and "The Politics of Life: 25 Rules for Survival in a Brutal and Manipulative World"] (2007) ISBN 0-7425-5250-0. He is a news analyst for the U.S. cable news channels MSNBC and CNBC.

Ruth Wyler Messinger (born 1940) is a former political leader in New York City and a member of the Democratic Party. She was the Democratic nominee for Mayor of New York City in 1997, losing to incumbent mayor Rudy Giuliani. She is married to Andrew Lachman, her second husband, and has three children. She is currently the CEO of American Jewish World Service, an international development agency.

Wes Boyd (b. ca. 1960) and his wife Joan Blades were the cofounders in 1987 of Berkeley Systems, a San Francisco Bay area software company. After selling the company in 1997, Boyd and Blades went on to found the liberal political group MoveOn.org.

John Yarmuth is the U.S. Representative for. He is a former independent newspaper publisher. A Louisville native who graduated from Atherton High School in 1965, he graduated from Yale University, majoring in American Studies. After working for U.S. Senator Marlow Cook from 1971 to 1975, he returned to Louisville to begin his publishing career when he founded the "Louisville Today" magazine (1976–1982).

Joan Blades (b. ca. 1956 in Berkeley, California) was the cofounder in 1987 with her husband Wes Boyd of Berkeley Systems, a San Francisco Bay area software company known for marketing the "After Dark" screensaver and the "You Don't Know Jack" trivia game. After selling Berkeley Systems in 1997 for $13.8 million, Blades and Boyd founded the liberal political group MoveOn.org.

Morris King Udall (June 15, 1922 - December 12, 1998), better known as Mo, was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Arizona from May 2, 1961 to May 4, 1991. A former professional basketball player with the old National Basketball League Denver Nuggets, noted for his liberal views, Mo Udall was a tall, Lincolnesque figure with a self-deprecating wit and easy manner.

Charles Spurgeon Johnson (July 24, 1893 - October 27, 1956) was a distinguished American sociologist, first black president of historically black Fisk University, and a lifelong advocate for racial equality and the advancement of civil rights for African Americans and all other ethnic minorities. He preferred to work in coalition with liberal white groups in the South quietly as a "sidelines activist" concerned to get practical results.

Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie is the President of the Union for Reform Judaism, the congregational arm of the Reform Jewish Movement in North America. Yoffie has remained the unchallenged head of American Judaism’s largest denomination since 1996 due to his popular advocacy of political liberalism and religious traditionalism. Raised in Worcester, Massachusetts, he is a graduate of Brandeis University and received his Rabbinical ordination from Hebrew Union College.

Andrew John Biemiller (July 23, 1906 in Sandusky, Ohio - April 3, 1982 in Bethesda, Maryland) was a prominent leader of American liberalism in the 20th century. After graduating from Cornell University in 1926, Biemiller became active in the Socialist Party of America and was a key leader of its "militant" faction, which favored unity of action with the Communist Party USA. In 1932 he went to Milwaukee to work for the Socialist mayor of that city, Daniel Hoan.

Robin Marty is managing editor of "Minnesota Monitor", a writing fellow for the Center for Independent Media, and an American liberal political blogger. Marty has been blogging since 2004 at The Power Liberal, a weblog she shares with her husband, Steve Marty. She is also the Minneapolis coordinator for Drinking Liberally.

Maury Maverick, Jr. (January 3 1921 - January 28 2003) was an American lawyer, politician, activist, and columnist from the U.S. state of Texas. A member of the prominent Maverick family, he was the great-grandson of Samuel Maverick, the rancher who signed the Texas Declaration of Independence and famously refused to brand his cattle, and the son of Maury Maverick, Sr., a two-term member of the United States House of Representatives and one-term mayor of San Antonio, Texas.

Charles Hillman Brough (9 July 1876-26 December 1935) was the Democratic governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas from 1917 to 1921. Charles Brough was born in Clinton, Mississippi. In 1894, he graduated from Mississippi College in Clinton. He earned his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in 1898, and graduated from the law school at the University of Mississippi in 1902. He taught at Mississippi College, Hillman College, and the University of Arkansas.

B.P. Schulberg (January 19, 1892 - February 25, 1957) was a pioneer film producer and movie studio executive. Born Benjamin Percival Schulberg in Bridgeport, Connecticut, he worked in the fledgling film industry in New York City until 1919 when he moved to Hollywood, California where he operated "Preferred Pictures" and was responsible for making Clara Bow a star. He joined Louis B. Mayer to form "Mayer-Schulberg Studio" but after Mayer became part of MGM, …

Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. (June 7, 1909 - May 7, 2005) was a Democratic United States Congressman from New Jersey from 1949 to 1989. Rodino rose to prominence as the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, where he was chair of the impeachment hearings that lead to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Rodino was born Pelligrino Rodino, Jr. in Newark, New Jersey. His parents were immigrants from Italy.