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Presidential Debate LiveBlog

Starting a hour from now (7 PM ET), we'll be liveblogging tonight's Democratic presidential debate, airing on MSNBC. We'll be keeping our eye on the actual substance -- in particular, what they're offering on health care, global warming, Iraq and strengthening our...

Is "Poverty" The Problem?

Following yesterday's poverty-related posts from Isaiah and me, about how we can avoiding the conservative "us vs. them" frame, Shawn Fremstad from Inclusionist left a provocative comment: ...we need to stop framing the debate in a way that automatically plays into...

Help The Poor, Help The Middle Class

Isaiah just hit upon something important when, in discussing the new anti-poverty program from Center for American Progress, he wrote: Conservatives succeeded in taking the nation’s eye off the ball on the issue of poverty by couching it as an issue of “us vs. them,”...

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