New York Gov. David Paterson is reportedly all set to appoint upstate two-term Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand to Hillary Clinton‘s vacant Senate seat. My first thought was that Paterson made a bold choice in favor of youth, smarts, and policy chops over connectedness (Andrew Cuomo) or interest group support (Carolyn Maloney). But if you delve deeper […]
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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OBAMA’S STATEMENT ON ANNIVERSARY OF ROE V. WADE.
I am on assignment today for a print feature, so haven’t had the chance I would have liked to blog about the 36th anniversary of Roe. But here is Obama’s statement, pointedly sent to reporters late enough in the day so that coverage would not compete with news about Obama’s national security orders. On the […]
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ON “DEFIANCE.”
After work last Friday, a few of us took a Prospect field trip to the local multiplex to see “Defiance,” the new film about Jewish partisans hiding and fighting in the Byelorussian forests during the final years of World War II. The film is a deeply sentimentalized version of the true story of the Bielski […]
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NEW WHITE HOUSE WEBSITE.
It just went live. And it features a blog! But no comment section. —Dana Goldstein
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SECULARISM COMES OUT OF THE CLOSET.
Obama: “We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus — and nonbelievers.” —Dana Goldstein
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BIG APPALUSE FOR INDICTMENT OF BUSH FOREIGN POLICY.
Obama: As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the […]
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THE WARREN INVOCATION.
Greeted by extremely tepid applause, Rick Warren offered a prayer that included an English translation of the Shema, the most sacred prayer in Judaism: Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one. Warren went on to make a few statements that seemed almost apologetic for his own history of discrimination against […]
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NO HUSSEIN.
The president-elect is announced as “Barack H. Obama.” Wonder how much discussion and debate went into that decision. —Dana Goldstein
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VANITY.
Nobody at the inauguration is wearing a hat. Not even Baby Biden, aka Hunter, aged 2. Also, Jesse Jackson Jr. has positioned himself right outside the door through which all the notables are entering, ensuring maximum television exposure and guaranteed hugs and handshakes from the Obamas, despite his name being connected to the Blagojevich scandal. […]
