9 Articles

Saturday, September 27, 2008
How McCain cheapens his admirable history
(12 comments) McCain's cynical use of his history as a prisoner cheapens both his campaign and his admirable record.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Beware of Yahoo "News" stories
(2 comments) Among Yahoo News' 5 "most popular news stories" is a vicious opinion piece. Did Yahoo mis-categorize it on purpose? Oh, perish the thought!

Monday, May 19, 2008
The Environmental Threat in the Living Room
(6 comments) In arguing about environmental priorities, we're afraid to even mention the highest one of all: population control.

Thursday, May 15, 2008
The Race Card and the Truth
(4 comments) Race is a non-issue that will not go away. To counter it,progressives must go on the offensive.

Sunday, May 11, 2008
Clinton or Obama? Feminist Angst and Single-Issue Politics
(10 comments) The election of a female president would be the greatest milestone in the long march of women's rights since achieving the vote. But for all its importance, feminism is still a single issue, and rising above single issues is what this campaign is about.

Saturday, May 10, 2008
Michigan and Florida: What Happened; Who's Responsible?
(4 comments) Validating the Michigan and Florida Democratic primaries is not fixing a mistake, it's evading consequences that were fully known before the primaries took place.

Monday, March 31, 2008
Citizens need crap detectors
A brief plea that future citizens/voters be taught media literacy as seriously as they are taught history and government.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008
School administration: the education reform they don't talk about
(3 comments) Until we reform school administration as aggressively as we're trying to improve teaching, we'll achieve as much as we usually have: zilch.

Thursday, February 7, 2008
Election Reform That Might Even Pass
Electing House members for four years instead of two would be so good for incumbents that the idea might even fly.