Common Dreams

Common Dreams is a 501(c)3 nonprofit U.S.-based progressive news website that publishes news stories, editorials, and a newswire of current breaking news. It was founded in 1996 by political consultant Craig Brown, and the News Center launched the following year, in May 1997, by Brown and his wife Lina Newhouser (1951–2008). Brown, a native of Massachusetts, has a long history in progressive politics.