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Gravel: Make the War a Felony

The presidential debate led with Iraq, with much of the discussion tracking what we already heard at the MoveOn.org Town Hall. Except for former Sen. Mike Gravel, who proposed legislation "making it a felony to stay there," telling the current congresspeople on the...

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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