SHEEHAN V. PELOSI. Speaking of impeachment, Cindy Sheehan, the antiwar activist and mother of an American soldier killed in Iraq, says that unless Nancy Pelosi files articles of impeachment against George W. Bush, she will run against her for Congress in 2008. Guess Sheehan isn’t out of the movement afterall. Sheehan is a master of […]
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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MY CHILD/SIBLING.
MY CHILD/SIBLING. The debate between reproductive health advocates and the disability rights community is usually framed as a question of how far medicine can ethically go to prevent disability without further stigmatizing the disabled. There is deep concern, for example, about the fact that 90 percent of expectant parents who receive a definitive prenatal diagnosis […]
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SPRAWL BEGETS FORECLOSURE.
SPRAWL BEGETS FORECLOSURE. Apropos of recent debates about suburban sprawl — do we encourage it through bad incentives or are the suburbs just gosh darn nice places to live — The New York Times reports on rising home foreclosures in Atlanta (albeit, without mentioning the area’s runaway growth, acknowledged by just about everyone concerned about […]
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PRISON ABOLITIONISTS AND PARIS HILTON.
PRISON ABOLITIONISTS AND PARIS HILTON. Why, asks Jeremy Bearer-Friend at WireTap, didn’t progressives do more with the Paris-goes-to jail story? The travesty wasn’t only that a celebrity white woman was treated differently by the California police and courts than poor people of color. Rather, no one’s substance abuse problem should be answered with incarceration. It’s […]
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FORTUNE-ATE HRC? As…
FORTUNE-ATE HRC? As a confirmed skeptic of the idea that Hillary Clinton‘s ties to Mark Penn indicate she’d be a bad president for organized labor, I felt it was my duty to pick up the July 9th issue of Fortune (article not online), which screams from the cover, “Business Loves Hillary! Who Knew?” Since the […]
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ARE YOU A SELL OUT?
ARE YOU A SELL OUT? Over at Campus Progress, Jesse Singal reviews Daniel Brook‘s The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America. The book is about progressive young Americans’ conflicting desires to make a difference, but also to be able to afford health care, a decent place to live, and a high-quality education […]
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WHEN MINUTEMEN ARE HAPPY
WHEN MINUTEMEN ARE HAPPY…you know you ought to be dispirited, at the very least. And while the immigration bill required an onerous, anti-family “touch back” and agreed to construct an Orwellian “security fence” between the United States and Mexico, I can’t help but feel disappointed today for the 12 million undocumented Americans who have just […]
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Second Tier Candidates, First Rate Ideas
Long-shot Democratic candidates are the ones taking a stance on many worthy, yet unsung, policy problems. Front-runners, pay attention.
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CUT OUT H.I.V.?
CUT OUT H.I.V.? From hippies reclaiming the body to immigrant groups who wouldn’t even consider it, CNN reports that the circumcision rate in the United States has reached an all-time low of 57 percent. The American Academy of Pediatrics now recommends forgoing circumcision, calling it an unnecessary and painful surgery. Even so, the United States […]
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EXEMPLARY AMERICA?
EXEMPLARY AMERICA? I too was at Take Back America yesterday, wowed and moved by both Obama and Edwards‘ speeches. But I find it strange that Matt and Ezra found Edwards so “persuasive,” “direct,” and “plausible” on foreign policy. Edwards laid out a wildly optimistic vision in which: 1. American energy independence (hence, no more oil […]
