The title of Noam Scheiber’s November cover story in the New Republic is: “Hillary’s Nightmare: A Democratic Party That Realizes Its Soul Lies with
The Gettysburg Address mashup
November 19, 2013 marks the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address delivered by Abraham Lincoln. It’s an amazing piece of writing–both for its powerful message
American disunity: I’m finally beginning to understand it
After years, no, decades, of wondering why all American voters don’t think and act the same way I do, I finally found something approaching an
What to expect when you’re expecting
By Sarah Casteel, Clayton High School senior, St. Louis MO While our society still faces sex-based workplace discrimination — clearly most often targeted at
The Obamacare numbers game: Progressive Blog Digest
How successful or unsuccessful is Obamacare signup so far? Let us count the ways. Today’s roundup features the differing ways that this news is
Several nations, divided
We are not just one nation. We are eleven, according to Colin Woodard in a recent Tufts magazine article. He focuses on
Science supports climate change reality: It’s time for the media to get on board
How times change. It seems just yesterday when Al Gore was being vilified as America’s über-exaggerator for his warning in 2006 of the coming
On my mother’s 100th birthday: The story continues
This is not a political post. Today’s the day that I stop thinking politically for just a little while and think historically and
Educational data, for the most part, is worthless
At a time when we are spending more and more taxpayers’ money on standardized tests and technology to enable us to take those standardized
Progressive Blog Digest: “The fix is in”
This daily blog is composed of clips and links from other progressive blog and news sites, accompanied by my own observations. It documents the