by Robert Borosage | Sep 8, 2009 | Blog
The departure of Van Jones from the White House is a sorry chapter in our politics. Van is a gifted leader of ideas and of action. He makes connections, thinks beyond the box, and inspires others to join. As California chose to spend billions on prisons locking up...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 8, 2009 | Blog
One of the teachers who influenced me the most was Mr. Harrison, my high school English teacher. He taught me that the purpose of education was not to teach me what to think, but how to think — how to examine and question what I was told; to not merely "know" what I...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 8, 2009 | Blog, Making it in America
"A country’s economic power comes from manufacturing. But while other countries have industrial policies, America has a de-inustrialization policy. We have handed our country’s manufacturing capacity over to other countries, and as a result we have to borrow more and...
by Alan Jenkins | Sep 7, 2009 | Blog
My Fellow Americans: I speak to you tonight at a crucial moment in our nation’s history. When you elected me president almost one year ago, you voted in favor of hope, and in favor of change. You voted for the idea that we are all in it together, and that we share a...
by Sara Robinson | Sep 4, 2009 | Blog
Over on the right wing, the conservatives are all a-Twitter because someone dug up a YouTube video from last February in which White House environmental staffer Van Jones calls Republicans "assholes." And then yesterday, Glenn Beck breathlessly revealed that back in...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 4, 2009 | Blog
Sometimes you think you've lived beforeAll that you live todayThings you do come back to youAs though they knew the wayOh, the tricks your mind can play! "Where or When," Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart "It seems we've stood and talked like this before," goes the...
