The fast and furious debate over Gene Sperling's The Pro-Growth Progressive : An Economic Strategy for Shared Prosperity rages on with new posts from Mr. Sperling, David Sirota, and James Galbraith. Princeton economics professor Alan Blinder also enters the fray with a post on progressives, progress, and the benefits of free trade.

At America Abroad, Dan Benjamin has come up with one of the scarier TPMCafe post headlines: "President Cheney." Also, Auction House's Ellen Miller has a pretty good idea of what the $185 million that the oil and gas industry has donated political candidates and parties since 1990 can buy.  Finally, check out the probing questions from readers like JVC  and marlow about last week's leak about secret US terrorist detention facilities in Eastern Europe and Asia.