Midterm Scramble for Youth Vote
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 4th, 2010 4:31 am by HL
Midterm Scramble for Youth Vote
Dayo Olopade, The Daily Beast
by Dayo Olopade Info Dayo Olopade is a political reporter for The Daily Beast and a Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation.Enter your email address:Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas:Enter your email address:Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas: Brendan Hoffman / Newscom Support for the Democrats among voters under 30 has plummeted since 2008. Dayo Olopade on the rappers, iPad apps, and other frantic efforts to get…
A Missed Chance on Climate Change Law
Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker
On April 20, 2010, Senators John Kerry, Lindsey Graham, and Joseph Lieberman, along with three aides, visited Rahm Emanuel, President Obama's chief of staff, at the White House. The legislators had spent seven months writing a comprehensive bill that promised to transform the nation's approach to energy and climate change, and they were planning a press conference in six days to unveil their work.Kerry, of Massachusetts, Graham, of South Carolina, and Lieberman, of Connecticut, had become known on Capitol Hill as the Three Amigos, for the Steve Martin comedy in which three…
Progressives Have Moved U.S. Forward
Sen. Sherrod Brown, USA Today
ColumnsIn addition to its own editorials, USA TODAY publishes a variety of opinions from outside writers. On political and policy matters, we publish opinions from across the political spectrum.Roughly half of our columns come from our Board of Contributors, a group whose interests range from education to religion to sports to the economy. Their charge is to chronicle American culture by telling the stories, large and small, that collectively make us what we are.We also publish weekly columns by Al Neuharth, USA TODAY's founder, and DeWayne Wickham, who writes primarily on matters of…
Jobs Machine is Clanging to Halt
Mort Zuckerman, US News & World Report
Sliding Into a Tyranny of Good Intentions?
Neil Reynolds, Globe and Mail
Jump to main navigation Jump to main content Nearly 50 years ago, Kenneth Minogue, a professor of political science at the London School of Economics, published The Liberal Mind, his classic study of the dominant philosophy of the 20th century: radical niceness. Rooted in extreme liberal optimism and salvationist aspiration, this triumphant ideology (Prof. Minogue said) tenaciously advanced the notion that history requires the perfection of human society, that governments – in pursuit of this perfection – are obliged “to provide every man, woman, child and dog…
