A piece of conventional wisdom in progressive organizing is that there’s a growing rift in the Democractic coalition between African Americans and Latinos. Working class blacks, the thinking goes, see lower-skilled immigrants as job competition, and thus are more likely to support anti-immigration policies. But a new Pew report on racial attitudes in America turns […]
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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ABOUT THAT TANCREDO AD.
Kate points to a fear-mongering Tancredo ad making the rounds in Iowa. Matt Yglesias writes that he isn’t surprised: “I used to think that 2008 was going to see a Tancredo surge based on his ability to tap into grassroots loathing of brown-skinned people on the home front as well as in foreign policy. But […]
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WHITHER THE FEMALE CONDOM?
AIDS specialists have long realized that effectively fighting the disease requires empowering women. That’s why medical researchers and activists alike are excited about the possibility of microbicide gels, a topical treatment that women can use to prevent contraction of HIV. Unfortunately, microbicide trials have yet to result in an effective, marketable drug. So some attention […]
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HEALTH CARE AT WAL-MART.
A year after Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott joined a coalition with other corporations and the SEIU to advocate for national health care reform, the New York Times reports that the mega-chain, long-renowned for keeping health coverage out of reach of most employees, is actually insuring more workers than better-regarded rivals such as Target. Some health […]
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RE: CLINTON AND THE RIGHT.
Ezra, I just don’t think Democrats are likely to choose their candidate based on what went down with Newt Gingrich or Tom DeLay in the mid-1990s — people today just aren’t thinking about those guys. Voters aren’t looking for a president who can protect them from the Right, they’re looking for a president who can […]
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EDUCATION QUOTE OF THE DAY.
Ohio Governor Ted Strickland: “Perhaps somewhere, charter schools have been implemented in a defensible manner, where they have provided quality. But the way they’ve been implemented in Ohio has been shameful. I think charter schools have been harmful, very harmful, to Ohio students.” Public charter schools, which are privately run but publicly funded, can be […]
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WHAT DO VOTERS REMEMBER ABOUT THE NINETIES?
Would it be effective, as Tom Schaller argues, for John Edwards and Barack Obama to criticize the Clintons for not better strengthening the Democratic Party during Bill‘s two terms? While I think there’s a lot to be said for this argument as historical interpretation, I don’t believe it’s a winning campaign strategy. “Progressive institution-building” has […]
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COULD GORE ENDORSE CLINTON?
I’ve been wondering for a few weeks if, burnt by his early Dean-endorsement in 2004, Al Gore might wait for Hillary Clinton to put out an aggressive climate platform and then endorse her, betting that he should work toward a position of influence in the probable Democratic administration. After reading Kate‘s piece on Hillary’s global […]
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Conservative Women and the GOP Gender Gap
The Republican candidates’ female staffers seem more concerned with one particular woman — Hillary Clinton — than with the American woman voter. It’s hard to imagine them closing their gender gap any time soon.
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THE BRITISH RANK AMERICAN POLITICIANS.
The UK’s Daily Telegraph has published a list of the United States’ top 100 most influential liberals (see 1-20 here) and 100 most influential conservatives (see 1-20 here). There’s a lot to argue with — Mark Penn (#3) ranked more influential than Hillary Clinton (#4) herself? — but it’s a fascinating look at American politics […]
