At TNR‘s The Plank, Josh Patashnik responded to my support for paid maternity leave by writing: I would question, though, whether this is really something we want to be requiring employers to provide. Insofar as paid maternity leave is something we think we need (and it should be!), funding it is a shared responsibility that […]
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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HOW IMPORTANT ARE THINK TANKS?
Kevin Drum highlights a ranking of the most name-dropped think tanks of 2007. The study, by FAIR, found that overall think tank citations dropped 17 percent last year. Like Kevin, I’d chalk that up to more digestible policy analysis available online. Think tanks like the New America Foundation and the Center for American Progress (my […]
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MORNING PRESS RELEASE WARS.
The Obama camp is celebrating the endorsemet of Pennsylvania Sen. The Obama camp is celebrating the endorsemet of Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey. The Associated Press reports on a heretofore unknown demographic group! Obama strategists hope that Casey can help their candidate make inroads with the white working-class men who are often referred to as “Casey […]
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ON BEING FEMALE IN POLITICAL JOURNALISM.
Dear Howard Kurtz, I was really excited when I saw you quoted my TAPPED post in your column today: American Prospect’s Dana Goldstein sees a more fundamental flaw: “I’d add that, like John McCain, most members of the campaign press corps just aren’t all that interested in or knowledgeable about public policy. Most cover politics, […]
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WHAT TO DO WITH MIKE BLOOMBERG?
We’re in that stage of campaign speculation where anyone who introduces a Barack Obama speech is assumed to be a serious vice presidential prospect. That makes today’s man of the hour New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who was on hand this morning for Obama’s speech on the economy. But let’s just slow down and […]
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HAVING A BABY? PUT IT IN WRITING.
That’s one of the lessons in Sue Shellenbarger‘s latest Wall Street Journal column, which reports that pregnancy bias complaints to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission rose 14 percent last year to 5,587, a 40 percent increase from a decade ago. One woman in the publishing industry was fired while she was pregnant, supposedly for poor […]
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When Barack Voted No
There is a new attack on Obama’s (very good) reproductive choice record. But this time it’s coming from the right.
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CLOCK TICKING ON NYC CONGESTION PRICING.
Congress has offered New York City $354 million to help launch a congestion pricing program that would reduce carbon admissions while raising much-needed funds for the Metropolitan Transit Authority. Under such a program, most drivers would be charged $8 for driving south of 60th Street in Manhattan. But there’s a catch, as the New York […]
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SPEAKING OF MCAIN AND THE TIMES OP-ED PAGE…
How is it that How is it that Reason Editor-In-Chief Matt Welch‘s account of John McCain‘s rejection of individualism in favor of patriotism entirely fails to mention McCain’s opposition to abortion rights and equality for LGBTQ Americans? —Dana Goldstein
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VOTERS: KEEP IT COMING!
The liberal media…sigh…we’re so disconnected! Despite all our The liberal media…sigh…we’re so disconnected! Despite all our hand-wringing over the damage this extended primary is doing to the Democratic coalition, a new Rasmussen poll says 62 percent of Democrats nationwide want the race to continue, and that 22 percent each believe that either Hillary Clinton or […]
