by Bill Scher | Jun 26, 2008 | Blog
Yesterday, Isaiah urged Sen. Barack Obama to take the lead in fighting immunity for telecom companies that may have helped the Bush administration break surveillance laws. I do not have high expectations. It appears quite clear to me, from Obama's recent statement on...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 26, 2008 | Blog
One year ago today, a Senate Republican filibuster killed the Employee Free Choice Act, and with it died one of the most important things Congress could have done to repair the economic damage done to working-class families caused by decades of conservative economic...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 25, 2008 | Blog
The Bush administration's gross abuse of presidential power demands that we insist on the next president reversing the damage done to the constitutional principle of separation of powers. The reversal of the imperial presidency, a mainstay of the right from Nixon...
by Sara Robinson | Jun 25, 2008 | Blog
Over the course of my master's program, I've had some tortured conversations with my dean over the direction my research is taking. He's been poking at me (and, being an atheist who was raised by Jesuits, he's one of those gentle souls who knows how to poke sharp and...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 25, 2008 | Blog
One of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's first acts upon taking the gavel was to rule impeachment off the table. She wanted Democrats to focus on challenging the president on the war and on kitchen table concerns — from energy to education to health care. With...
by Bill Scher | Jun 24, 2008 | Blog
After a big PR push to exploit public frustration with high gas prices and open up our coastlines to more oil drilling, the facts on how little drilling can help are starting to surface. Recall that last week, President George Bush said coastal drilling was part of...
