Category: Politics

The Song of Compromise Is Off-Key
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 4, 2013 | Politics(Source: Reuters via Fox News) Tea-partying Republicans supposedly pine for smaller government, lower taxes and, of course, the Affordable Care Act’s demise. The conventional wisdom is that these rigid, Republican extremists need to be countered by “moderate” Democrats who will behave like the “adults in the room” by cutting a deal that sacrifices sacred cows […]

Whose Obamacare Stories Are Worth Telling?
by Peter Hart | Nov 3, 2013 | Media, Politics(Steven Beshear | Source: NBC) The biggest Obamacare-related media scandal of the moment is, of course, the fact that some people who buy individual insurance policies have been receiving cancellation letters. The implication is that when Obama assured people that they could keep their policies if they liked them, he wasn’t telling the truth. The […]

Global Universities Serve Diplomacy and Markets, Not Democracy
by Jim Sleeper | Nov 1, 2013 | Foreign Policy(Rendering Yale-NUS College | Source: Yale-NUS) U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Robert O. Blake performed the diplomatic equivalent of gold-medal figure skating last April in a meeting at the authoritarian central Asian nation of Kazakhstan’s Nazarbayev University when a student asked him about warnings by American critics and human-rights monitors that “a democracy cannot have […]

A Pardon for Don Siegelman
by Lou Dubose | Nov 1, 2013 | Politics(Don Siegelman | Source: Birmingham News) Tom DeLay said his felony conviction was overturned because he kept the “joy of Jesus” in his heart. Providentially, that is, two Republican state appellate judges in Texas decided that the $190,000 in soft (corporate) money that DeLay’s Texas PAC sent to a Republican national PAC, which returned $190,000 […]

A Conversation with Denis Hayes
by Lou Dubose | Nov 1, 2013 | EnvironmentIn 1969, Gaylord Nelson, seven years out of the U.S. Senate, called on Denis Hayes to organize what Nelson envisioned as a national teach-in on the environment. The result was the first Earth Day, conceived of by the former Democratic senator and realized by Hayes and a staff of 85. Today Hayes is head […]
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