by Bill Scher | Apr 26, 2007 | Blog
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...
by Bill Scher | Apr 26, 2007 | Blog
Speaker Nancy Pelosi updated reporters yesterday on the status of global warming legislation, after a
by Bill Scher | Apr 25, 2007 | Blog
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,”...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 25, 2007 | Blog
In little more than a decade after President Lyndon Johnson declared a “war on poverty,” President Ronald Reagan led the nation in the equivalent of a helicopter evacuation from the epicenter of the fight. Reagan and his band of conservatives also so...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 25, 2007 | Blog
Celebrities spewing racist drivel get the headlines and the outrage, but largely out of the public eye the Bush administration has been doing something far more damaging to victims of discrimination than the utterance of a few vile slurs. In its classic Grover...
by Bill Scher | Apr 25, 2007 | Blog
Today, New York Times columnist Tom Friedman tries to press the presidential candidates to engage in a serious debate over energy policy, giving a shout out to the new GreenPrimary.org and citing a recent poll from Center for American Progress showing most Americans...
