Earn your advanced degree in John McCain’s policy proposals at McCain U!

"McCain U" is a new series of seminars from the Hyde Park Project to be held on June 30 at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. The half-day event will be comprised of four one-hour panels on each of the Hyde Park Project's core issue areas – the economy, health care, global warming, and national security. Each panel will feature CAPAF staff and prominent outside experts, and will include time for audience Q&A.

Course materials will include a new binder containing the Hyde Park Project's best work and analysis on each of our four issue areas, as well as a new product – "The Winning Argument," a series of one-page reduxes of the most effective critiques of John McCain's policy proposals.

***Due to seating restrictions, this event is closed, and we will not be able to accommodate anyone on the waitlist. We apologize for the inconvenience***

This election year the United States is in a major transition, possibly one of the most important in the country's history. At the same time, this month marks the 75th anniversary of FDR's famously successful first hundred days in office. Is the success of that administration's first hundred days a good example for the next president to use to set balanced expectations and build on the momentum from the election? Please join the Center for American Progress Action Fund for a discussion, moderated by Elizabeth Edwards, on how the next president can best model FDR's achievements to guide the nation through this critical period.

Copies of The Defining Moment, Return to Common Sense, and Saving Graces will be available for purchase.

Created in 2002, the Department of Homeland Security remains one of the most troubled entities within the federal government. The Department's gross mismanagement of the federal response to Hurricane Katrina is just the first item in a long list of disturbing ineptitude and misuse of public funds. Congressman David Price (D-NC), Chairman of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, will discuss how the next administration should deal with the struggling Department during an upcoming presentation at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Representative Price will have recently completed marking up the fiscal year 2009 appropriation for the Department and is expected to share his insights into the major issues contained in the bill, as well as steps the next administration should take for reform.

As the 2008 presidential election gets under way, Americans face a profound choice between two competing ideological frameworks each with a distinctive governing theory, policy agenda, and political vision for the country. Is liberalism, once the dominant ideology of American politics, again ascendant and will a durable progressive majority arise as Eric Alterman argues in his new book, Why We're Liberals: A Political Handbook for Post-Bush America? Or will the structural advantages that helped President Bush to win two terms allow conservatives to continue their efforts to realign American politics as journalist Thomas Edsall argues in his 2006 book, Building Red America: The New Conservative Coalition and the Drive for Permanent Power?

Federal Employees are denied the ability to purchase domestic partner benefits. The Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act (S. 2521 and H.R. 4838) would provide domestic partnership benefits to all federal civilian employees on the same basis as spousal benefits. These benefits, available for same-sex domestic partners of federal employees, would include participation in applicable retirement programs, compensation for work injuries, and life and health insurance benefits. By offering these benefits, federal employment practices would be in line with those of America’s largest and most successful corporations, including AT&T, General Motors, and Raytheon.

Join us at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, along with our distinguished guests, for a provocative conversation about the legislation, leadership, and trends of domestic partner benefits.