According to the recent CBO report on the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare is a jobs killer, but not in the way the GOP would have us believe. Rather than burdening employers with unsustainable new costs, forcing them to lay off workers in order to stay in the black, the employees themselves will voluntarily exit or … Read more
Stephanie Schriock knows what she’s doing. She stands at the helm of the pro-choice Democratic women’s political action committee, EMILY’s List, as Washington gets set to welcome a historic number of women into its fold. EMILY’s List has grown substantially in size and influence in the last several years, and hearing their president’s measured but … Read more
Twitter lends itself to a candor that politicos sidestep in person. Take DNC executive director Patrick Gaspard who hastily posted after SCOTUS’s health care ruling: “It’s constitutional. Bitches.” Gaspard later rescinded his comment, but his saucy blurt revealed a smugness within the liberal establishment that had arisen out of NFIB vs. Sebelius. To some extent, this … Read more
Restore Our Future, American Crossroads, and Club for Growth Action – all three names kindle both fear and hatred among liberals, and rightfully so. Spawned out of a pair of 2010 Supreme Court decisions, these conservative SuperPACs, like their smaller leftwing counterparts, represent an unprecedented intrusion of private capital into politics. With the vast majority … Read more
Glenn Greenwald wrote a thought-provoking piece in Salon in which he noted that progressives disappointed with Obama’s policies have a viable alternative. While explicitly not endorsing Ron Paul, Greenwald declared: “For better or worse, Paul — alone among the national figures in both parties — is able and willing to advocate views that Americans urgently need to … Read more
I am a passionately liberal-minded, environmentally-conscious person, and I can’t figure out anything to do about it. I care about the environment. I care about workers’ rights, and ending sweatshop labor. I care about cultural relativism, food justice, and small farmers. I care about sustainability and ending global poverty. But most of the time, in … Read more
President Obama is an excellent rhetorician—he displayed his oratorical gift once again during his speech on the state of the Middle East and North Africa last Thursday. However, I continue to be bothered by the seemingly arbitrary distinction President Obama drew between “good” Arab revolutions in Egypt, Libya, Yemen, and Syria, and the “bad” revolution … Read more
Arizona’s state legislature is showing its true colors. On January 7th, the New York Times reported that an ethnic studies class in Tucson had been declared illegal by the state’s newly-elected Attorney General, Tom Horne. The class, called Latino Literature, ruffled the feathers of Arizona’s conservative leadership by utilizing texts with titles like The Pedagogy … Read more
Today, the Crimson put out a call for the young people of America to learn from the revolutions of the Middle East. It suggests that our generation is not as politically engaged as the middle-aged Americans who make up the Tea Party movement. The Crimson asks us young Americans to learn from the social-network-oriented organizing … Read more
All sane people want government (like everything else) to cost less. Due to the horrifying predictions about our national finances over the next couple of decades, our leaders are now faced with the inevitable, yet nearly impossible task of getting the United States out of the red. To this end, President Obama has proposed a … Read more