> > Tonight’s hidden agenda: those plucky plucks from McSweeney’s are in town tonight screening Wholphin, the “Audio-Visual” version of their magazine, The Believer. Admission is free and light refreshments will be served, but you should probably take anything they say about “lifetime subscriptions” with several grains of salt. At the Center for American Progress, 1333 H St. NW, 10th Floor. Take Orange/Blue to McPherson Square Station or Red to Metro Center. > > The…

This post is from DCist intern Maureen Miller. If conservative interns get a dorm and fitness room to enjoy at the Hertiage Foundation while they’re cranking out reports on privatization, what sort of extra-curricular perks do interns for lefty groups get? While they might not live adjacent their offices, a project of the new Center for American Progress has been working hard to plan a smattering of events for interns for left-leaning groups. This week,…

When 25-year-old filmmaker Steven Greenstreet heard director Michael Moore had been invited to speak at Utah Valley State College during the heat of last fall’s election, he knew things might get interesting. He was right, and his documentary of the events, which he dropped out of nearby Brigham Young University to create, is also generating some attention. The film is called This Divided State and has been picked up by the liberal Center For American…

Former Congressman and head of the NAACP Kweisi Mfume announced today he would run for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Sen. Paul Sarbanes. (He is seen here with President Clinton in this awkward photo from the Center for American Progress.) Sarbanes announced on Friday he would not run for re-election. Mfume began his political career as a radio commentator in the 1970s, served as five-term U.S. congressman before stepping down to head the NAACP…

If anyone out there wanted to snag tickets for this evening’s screening of “Outfoxed” at the Avalon Theater, it is sold out. John Podesta of the Center for American Progress is slated to speak….