Victoria DeFrancesco Soto: Mamás will be a particularly important electorate for President Obama. While women across the board approve of the President at higher rates than men, the President’s approval is strongest among Latinas.
Threat of War Against Iran and Syria Is Real
December 31, 2011 By
Shamus Cooke: The U.S. is creating the conditions for war in a region that is already boiling over from decades of U.S. backed dictators combined with past U.S. military aggression.
The Risible Rise of the American Anti-War Movement
December 30, 2011 By
Jonathan David Farley: The American anti-war movement failed to promote the truly left-wing voices in America and it failed to develop new ones.
“Facts Are Stupid Things”
December 30, 2011 By
Berry Craig: A lot of liberals think the nuttier these tea party-tilting Republicans talk, the more likely they are to turn off John and Jane Q. Public. I hope my fellow lefties are right.
99 Percent Clubs: Online Public Square and Free Speech Zone
December 30, 2011 By
Mark Naison: What we did not envision, when we created our 99% C lub, was how it would create an incredible online free speech zone and public square not only for club members, but for people with no direct connection to Fordham who found out what we were doing.
Crackpot Anti-Islam Activists, “Serial Fabricators” and the Tale of Iran and 9/11
December 30, 2011 By
President Obama: A Radical Liberal Moderate Conservative Socialist Corporate Stooge?
December 30, 2011 By
Julie Driscoll: What the left views as weakness and the right views as radicalism, I view as brilliance. Anyone who thinks he’s weak hasn’t been paying attention.
Facebook Community Helps Save a Few of Congo’s Many Cholera Victims
December 30, 2011 By
Georgianne Nienaber: Some rudimentary help is now on the way to Walikale due to a tight-knit Facebook community that rallied to find a simple solution that will not solve the problem, but might save a life or two.
Optimism, It’s Our Only Choice!
December 29, 2011 By
Stephen Box: As I traded “new father” anecdotes with one of the most powerful men in Los Angeles, I realized that our experiences contained within them the lessons that could move LA forward.
California Ending Funding of Child Prisons
December 29, 2011 By
Bruce Reilly: I am not too troubled possible financial bankruptcy due to prisons, particularly child prisons. The possible moral bankruptcy, however, runs much deeper than any bottom line.
Ending California’s Death Penalty in 2012
December 29, 2011 By
At the ACLU Public Forum in Pasadena on January 10th, James Clark of the SAFE California Campaign and Brent Tonik of CCV will discuss the history of California’s death penalty and lay out the case for its abolition.
Welfare “Reform” Laws Deepen, Perpetuate Poverty
December 29, 2011 By
Sherwood Ross: In passing TANF, Congress and Bill Clinton made good on their promise to ‘end welfare as we know it.’ It’s time to end welfare reform as we know it instead.
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