Amid complaints that he hasn’t been publicly enthusiastic enough about Barack Obama, Bill Clinton gave the Democratic nominee a poignant introduction today at CGI, and one that seemed in direct response to claims that McCain is doing more to stop business-as-usual to deal with the financial crisis. Relating their meeting in Harlem on Sept. 11, […]
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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MCCAIN APPEARS AT CGI.
John McCain just spoke to the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, where he reiterated that he was suspending his campaign. “The debate right now is taking place at the United States Capitol and I intend to join it. Senator Obama will do the same,” he said. McCain then laid out five improvements that must […]
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BONO ON THE BAILOUT.
“It’s extraordinary to me that the United States can find $7 $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can’t find $25 billion dollars to saved 25,000 children who die every day from preventable diseases.” —Dana Goldstein
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BILL CLINTON SUPPORTS CHARTER SCHOOLS.
In a conversation with Queen Rania of Jordan, Bill Clinton says private sector involvement is key to progress in education. One of the most encouraging developments in New Orleans since Katrina is “the growth of what we call charter schools,” he said. “About half the New Orleans public schools now that have been reopened are […]
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BLOOMBERG OBSESSED WITH THIRD TERM.
He’d have to overturn New York City’s term limit laws, but Mayor Mike Bloomberg at the Clinton Global Initiative today used Lance Armstrong‘s announcement that he will race in the Tour de France again to make a quip about running again himself: “I did like your comments about coming and doing it again but that’s […]
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ELEVEN-YEAR OLD SUSPENDED FOR ANTI-OBAMA T-SHIRT.
Should this Colorado fifth-grader have been suspended from school? I say no — I’m a First Amendment absolutist. It looks to me like a good opportunity for a class discussion. —Dana Goldstein
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FINANCIAL CRISIS V. CLIMATE CRISIS?
It’s certainly a good idea, as Joseph Romm suggests at Grist, to use the Wall Street bail out to push for a similarly immense investment in solving the climate crisis, which, after all, would be sure to yield valuable dividends for taxpayers, such as the preservation of planet Earth and the salvation of the human […]
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NEW DATA ON ABORTION.
The Guttmacher Institute has released a fascinating new report looking at 30 years of data on abortion in America. Here are some of the key findings: The abortion rate is currently at its lowest since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. Most of the change is due to declining abortion rates among women aged […]
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CLINTON’S RECORD ON FANNIE AND FREDDIE.
When I asked Bill Clinton last night what he would’ve done differently as president to help prevent today’s financial crisis, he said he would have pushed harder late in his second term to reign in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. But, via Mark Thoma, here’s a Washington Post article that explains how the Clinton administration […]
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BILL CLINTON REVISITS HIS ECONOMIC LEGACY.
At a meeting with progressive bloggers and journalists at the Sheraton New York Monday night, Bill Clinton, preparing for the opening of his Clinton Global Initiative conference, spoke freely about the financial crisis, and re-examined his own administration’s economic legacy in light of the meltdown. “I have thought about that,” Clinton told me when I […]
