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Baratunde Thurston, Rebecca Traister, and Anne Elizabeth Moore
October 6, 2010We keep hearing about the enthusiasm gap this election cycle--that Republicans, energized by the Tea Party, are ready to sweep into the polls and sweep out the Democratic majorities. Meanwhile the Obama administration seems perfectly willing to blame it all on their progressive critics--as if the economy wasn't actually bad, lefty bloggers are just making people think it's bad. Additionally, notes Baratunde Thurston, "Our politicians are assumed to be corrupt and not doing much to discourage that assumption."Anne Elizabeth Moore: Fighting for a Library
October 6, 2010It's no secret to GRITtv viewers that profound inequality is one of the biggest problems our schools face. For over three weeks, a group of mostly single Latina moms have been occupying a building at John Greenleaf Whittier Dual Language Elementary School in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, demanding the school system account for misspent funds--and build their kids a library.Markos Moulitsas, Race to Nowhere, John Nichols and Stephen MacDonogh
October 1, 2010"Ann Coulter hasn't beheaded anybody, I'm glad that's the new marker for extremism" says Markos Moulitsas of criticism of his new book, American Taliban. To the argument that comparing the American Right to the Taliban is unfair and hyperbolic, Markos notes that you don't have to go too far back in U.S. history to find lynchings and other forms of violence used in service of repressive ideas.Got Docs: Race to Nowhere
October 1, 2010What's all this talk about being in a "race" when it comes to education? Does the "Race to the Top" framing change anything? And what's all of this racing really doing for our kids? This week's featured documentary, Race to Nowhere, takes a look at just what's going on with our schools, and whether putting a lot of pressure on kids to ace constant tests and load themselves with work is actually producing happy, well-educated people.David Corn: Pledging to America or Insurers?
September 24, 2010Provisions of the much-disputed health care bill go into effect today, just as the Republicans unveil their new "Pledge to America," which includes a promise to repeal the law. But as the most popular bits are the ones that go into effect now, and, David Corn notes, health insurance companies aren't getting any more popular--will allying themselves with the big insurers help Republicans? Or will people realize that they like the regulations just as Republicans try to pull them back?David Corn, Fatima Bhutto, and the War on Drugs
September 23, 2010Provisions of the much-disputed health care bill go into effect today, just as the Republicans unveil their new "Pledge to America," which includes a promise to repeal the law. But as the most popular bits are the ones that go into effect now, and, David Corn notes, health insurance companies aren't getting any more popular--will allying themselves with the big insurers help Republicans? Or will people realize that they like the regulations just as Republicans try to pull them back?Generation Obama: Where Are They Now?
November 4, 2009A year later, we round up a few of them and ask whether they're still involved. Lana Wilson, founder of Obamaerobics, Mike Jones, NYU sophomore and Obama 2008 campaign volunteer, and Ebonie Johnson Cooper, campaign organizer in Ohio and Pennsylvania join Elizabeth Mendez-Berry, who wrote about the Obama youth organizers and what they're up to now for an upcoming issue of The Nation, to talk about what they've done and how Obama changed their generation.Are the Kids All Right?
August 14, 2009It’s not easy being a kid these days. It’s getting more and more difficult to get basic, entry-level work, college tuition costs continue to rise faster than just about anything on the market, and the military looks to ramp up its recruiting in preparation for another surge in Afghanistan. The national teen unemployment rate is now estimated at about 24 percent, as the economy remains in decline and out of workThe F Word: Rich v. Poor in the U.S. Education System
July 8, 2008Jonathan Kozol, the great chronicler of what's happened to our schools, wrote Savage Inequalities a few years back, which did more than just about any other book to wake Americans up to our nation’s two-tier public school system: suburbs vs. urban centers, poor community vs. rich...
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