During the last decade, efforts to chip away at abortion rights have often met with substantial success, and at least some pro-choice stalwarts have worried that their movement is losing steam. Of the many factors contributing to this situation, one often goes unnoticed by secular progressives: Abortion-rights supporters have privileged the rhetoric of “rights” over […]
Miriam Markowitz
Miriam Markowitz is a TAP Online intern and a rising senior at Brown University.
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Head Hunter
George W. Bush is becoming ever more the schoolyard bully. Now that he’s cut education spending for college students, he’s ready to take on the younger kids with a new bill to gut Head Start. During the course of its 38 years, the Head Start program has prepared 20 million children of low-income families for […]
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Youth Full
Common sense and song lyrics tell us that the children are our future, but the leaders of the American Civil Liberties Union know something your average progressive activists don’t: The future needs to be engaged in politics on its own terms, and in its own language. Last weekend’s ACLU conference here in Washington featured a […]
