by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 24, 2008 | Blog
The conservative war against the war on poverty continues today as Arizona Sen. John McCain goes to the Ninth Ward in New Orleans. From what we've seen so far, McCain is coming to the still-devastated city with nothing that will actually address the compounded...
by Bill Scher | Apr 23, 2008 | Blog
You may not know this, but our media often reports on important issues that affect our lives. However, the reporters on the presidential campaign beat and the punditocracy then choose to assume voters care more about guilt-by-association charges, silly surrogate...
by Sara Robinson | Apr 22, 2008 | Blog
One of the trickiest parts of dealing with the extremist right is figuring out whether a given group is just harmless garden-variety crazy -- or harboring the special kind of insanity that will lead to acts of local violence or outright domestic terror. it's a...
by Bill Scher | Apr 22, 2008 | Blog
You may recall that last year, the Bush administration issued new State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) regulations that threatened states trying to provide health insurance to kids from squeezed middle-class families, which could put pressure on states to...
by Bill Scher | Apr 22, 2008 | Blog
Just before the Iowa caucuses, I wrote that the process let us know what Iowa voters wanted: economic populism, health care for all, clean energy, affordable education and ending the Iraq occupation. And just before the Pennsylvania primary, we know that political...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 22, 2008 | Blog
It's now more clear than ever that the so-called economic stimulus package Congress passed earlier this year is inadequate. It is now time to demand that Congress get to work on finishing the job by passing a second economic stimulus package in the coming weeks—and do...
