Parents of children with disabilities are increasingly facing off against disability rights organizations when it comes to education, The Wall Street Journal reports. While advocacy organizations for the disabled continue to push “mainstreaming,” or having disabled kids spend most of their school day in integrated classrooms, parents of kids with autism, Down syndrome, and other […]
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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THE GRANDMA VOTE.
Over the past months, Hillary Clinton has shared, again and again, the anecdote of the elderly woman who tells her, “I was born before women could vote, and I want to live long enough to see a woman in the White House.” Now The New York Times‘ Patrick Healy has tracked down the actual lady […]
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HIV D.C.
There’s a lot of bad news in Washington, D.C.’s new report on the state of HIV/AIDS in the city: Not only does the data confirm earlier estimates that 1 in 20 District residents are infected — the highest rate in the nation — but it also reveals that two-thirds of HIV-positive patients in D.C. learn […]
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Race-Baiting on the Ballot
Immigration isn’t the only explosive racial issue facing voters in the coming election year — the anti-affirmative action movement is pushing 2008 ballot initiatives across the country. Is economic populism the antidote?
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BUH-BYE, BOW TIES?
Turns out that suggesting women shouldn’t be allowed to vote if they’re motivated by feminism, and that they have “real things to do” instead of politics isn’t so good for a guy’s career: As Zach Roth writes at the New York Observer, MSNBC Senior V.P. Phil Griffin told NPR last week that Tucker Carlson was […]
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BREAKING: TRENT LOTT RESIGNS.
After a brief redemption as minority whip, Sen. Trent Lott — of the Strom Thurmond for President campaign — will announce today that he will leave the Senate before the year’s end, in the middle of his term. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a Republican, will appoint Lott’s replacement. —Dana Goldstein
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SAUDI RAPE VICTIM REFUSES TO BE SILENCED.
The Saudi 19-year old who was sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in jail after being the victim of a violent gang rape is fighting back. She plans to appeal the decision, and her family and lawyers are ignoring the court’s warning that she not speak to the media about her plight. Here’s what […]
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EDWARDS TO FORGO INTERVIEW (AND POSSIBLY THE NEXT DEBATE) TO STAND WITH STRIKING WRITERS.
As Michelle Obama prepares to co-host ABC ladyfest “The View” next month, John and Elizabeth Edwards have decided to cancel a planned interview on the show in order to stand in solidarity with striking Writer’s Guild workers. Edwards says that he will also sit out CBS’ Dec. 10 presidential debate if writers are still picketing […]
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BARACK OBAMA, BABY BOOMER.
Way before Andrew Sullivan canonized the theme, Barack Obama was presenting himself as the only presidential candidate who could pull the country out of its baby boomer “culture wars” mentality. I heard him make this argument explicitly at the Planned Parenthood forum in July. Now, in a thoughtful piece, The Nation‘s Lakshmi Chaudhry goes a […]
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HILLARY AND THE MIRROR.
At The Plank, Mike Crowley points to Karl Rove‘s first Newsweek column, called “How to Beat Hillary.” (That’s an overt reference to the “How do we beat the bitch?” comment at a John McCain rally. Don’t ever say Karl’s not a gentleman!) Rove led with the following anecdote: [Hillary Clinton] tends to be, well, hard […]
