By now you already know that Hillary Clinton and John McCain were endorsed by the Des Moines Register this weekend. But have you met Sarah Huckabee, the candidate’s daughter and national field director? Best moment: The interviewer, from South Carolina politics site SCHotline.com, asks, “Your father mentioned… he opposed mini skirts. Have you ever worn […]
Dana Goldstein
Dana Goldstein, a former associate editor and writer at the Prospect, comes from a family of public-school educators. She received the Spencer Fellowship in Education Journalism, a Schwarz Fellowship at the New America Foundation, and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellowship at the Nation Institute. Her journalism is regularly featured in Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast, and other publications, and she is a staff writer at the Marshall Project.
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Reparations Anxiety
Brown University announced that it will give a $10 million endowment to local public schools to atone for its involvement in the slave trade. But reparations alone will not address the ongoing segregation of the American education system.
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SHAHEEN STEPS DOWN AS CLINTON CO-CHAIR.
It wasn’t pretty when Bill Shaheen, co-chair of Hillary Clinton‘s campaign, suggested Barack Obama might be tarred as a drug dealer because Obama has written about his drug use as a young man. As Addie wrote, “Here, we find Shaheen, as Clinton’s surrogate, not simply mining a rival’s past for unflattering information, but deploying that […]
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EDWARDS IS GREAT ON EDUCATION.
I’m always impressed with John Edwards‘ discussions of education policy during these debates. He begins with the importance of early childhood interventions, he criticizes NCLB while holding out hope it can be reformed, and he highlights the privileges suburban schools enjoy that rural and inner city schools lack. He circles back to discuss free college […]
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CLINTON: HOPE IS NOT ENOUGH.
Clinton has a subtle dig for Obama in her free statement. “Everyone wants change,” she says, but “hope” isn’t enough. You have to “work hard for change. That’s what I’ve done my whole life.” —Dana Goldstein
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BIDEN AND RICHARDSON’S FREE STATEMENTS.
Biden‘s doing great. The frame for this election has been experience vs. change, he says, but he alone can bring “action and pragmatic solutions.” He mentions his foreign policy experience and his leadership on specific legislation, including the Violence Against Women Act. Richardson uses his time to push the focus back to Iraq. “I”m concerned […]
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“FREE STATEMENTS” FROM OBAMA AND EDWARDS.
As he has in his apperances with Oprah, Obama quotes MLK‘s “fierce urgency of now” in reference to restoring America’s standing in the world, creating economic security, and battling climate change. Edwards is more combative and populist, saying jobs, the middle class, and health care are all at risk because of “corporate power and corporate […]
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DODD: U.S. AND CHINA IN AN “ADVERSARIAL RELATIONSHIP.”
The two nations aren’t playing by the same rules, Dodd says in a well thought out answer. He mentions China’s human rights abuses and their devaluation of the yuan. —Dana Goldstein
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DEM DEBATE OPENS IN DES MOINES.
It begins with the same first question from yesterday about fiscal responsibility. The Democrats approach the problem completely differently, of course, talking about the costs of the war and the Bush tax cuts for the rich. Obama mentions growing inequality and Edwards rails against shipping jobs overseas. Bill Richardson advocates a Constitutional amendment to give […]
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DEM DEBATE LIVE-BLOGGED TODAY.
The Republicans were more than happy at their debate yesterday to ignore the fact that The Republicans were more than happy at their debate yesterday to ignore the fact that Des Moines Register editor Carolyn Washburn asked them not one question about Iraq. Here’s hoping that today, the Democrats force Iraq (and the NIE Iran […]
