by Terrance Heath | Mar 26, 2008 | Blog
Like some middle class kids in my generation, education was a high priority. In my house it was emphasized as the doorway to upward mobility. (The idea of learning for learning's sake was something I discovered later.) If I wanted a "good job," I'd better...
by Bill Scher | Mar 26, 2008 | Blog
The New York Times "Caucus" blog asserts: "There’s also the matter of whether Senator Obama is too liberal to bring about the change and bipartisan unity he speaks about." Has the media ever the raised the question if a candidate is "too conservative" to bring about...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 26, 2008 | Blog
One in ten homes is “under water” – worth less than their mortgages. 2 million homeowners are headed to foreclosure. The shadow banking system verges on collapse. Banks across world are shaken. The world fears global recession. Fearful of a catastrophic unraveling,...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 25, 2008 | Blog
Our McCain ad struck a chord, eliciting both reason and vitriol. It strikes me that it is worth being clear what the ad says and doesn’t say. Other than the bad French accent, it isn’t anti-French, xenophobic or “racist.” It doesn’t accuse the French of taking jobs...
by Bill Scher | Mar 25, 2008 | Blog
Pat Buchanan's latest rantings, put in their place by Isaiah, are merely the starkest evidence of a conservative effort to undermine the objective of Sen. Barack Obama's historic "A More Perfect Union" address, the objective of unity. Not all conservatives are trying...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 25, 2008 | Blog
Part Seven of a Series Imagine that you've come upon two people who have somehow fallen into a very deep hole, which neither of them can climb out of on their own. (Nor, for some reason, can they help one another climb out.) In the course of figuring out what to do,...
