The right’s increasingly xenophobic rhetoric alienates Latino voters.
Politics
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Occupy the Web
Sociologists Neal Caren and Sarah Gaby of UNC-Chapel Hill crunch the data on #OWS’s spread on Facebook.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Herman Cain: Yesterday, Totally Pro-Choice. Today, Totally Pro-Life
Is it any surprise he’s a flip-flopper?
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Pink October
In case you missed it: Last Sunday The New York Times had a thoughtful examination of the pros and cons of the pinking of America-the Susan G. Komen foundation’s marketing of breast cancer awareness and its work raising funds for breast cancer research. NPR took a look at the anti-pink backlash. So I thought it […]
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Businesspeople Don’t Always Make Good Politicians
The Huffington Post has early access to the Walter Isaacson biography of Steve Jobs, which – among many other things – reveals the Apple CEO’s distaste for President Obama and his policies: When he [Jobs] finally relented and they met at the Westin San Francisco Airport, Jobs was characteristically blunt. He seemed to have transformed […]
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Wrong Kind of Government Subsidy
Matt Yglesias notes that the city of Seattle is putting up $4 million to subsidize the operations of a downtown public parking garage. This is on top of $1.5 million the city already lent the garage last year. Apparently, when one subsidy wasn’t enough to create sufficient demand for the parking spaces, a second was […]
Posted inLaw and Justice
Here’s to You, Mrs. Robinson!
Vermont nominates a marriage-equality advocate to the state supreme court.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
“The Romney Rule”
Priorities USA, the Democratic consulting firm backed by former Clinton staffer Paul Begala, is out with its first ad attacking former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. It’s a good one: Like the The Washington Post‘s Greg Sargent, I think that this will be a potent line of attack should Romney become the Republican nominee for president. […]
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Blame and How to Give It
That Senate Republicans used the filibuster to kill a Democratic stimulus bill isn’t a surprise – at this point, Republicans have all but announced their plan to keep the economy from significantly improving, and as a result, slash the tires on President Obama’s bid for re-election. What comes as a surprise is the extent to […]
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Occupy the Rules Committee
For last two months, we’ve been engaged in something of a natural experiment to see if presidential speechifying-in this case, a consistent focus on jobs-is enough to move public opinion in a progressive direction and create avenues for legislative success. So far, that hasn’t been the case. Instead, Republicans have taken their usual position of […]
