Month: March 2010

I guess someone needs to sit Dick Durbin and Nancy Pelosi down at a table until one of them admits that their side is killing the public option. They can’t both be right. Right?

Conservatives who squawk about the deficit — and Democrats who should know better, but squawk anyway — tend to do so selectively. That is, they tend to focus only on spending. But spending is only half of any deficit equation....

With all the focus on Bart Stupak and abortion, it’s easy to overlook state and local races where abortion is an issue. In Pennsylvania, we are coming up on a primary to determine which Democrat will win the nomination to...

In light of International Women’s Day and the 54th United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, on Tuesday, March 9th, the Urban Agenda’s Human Rights Project, The National Council on Research for Women and the...

First things first, the last paragraph of Juan Cole’s article: Abbas Reported to have Withdrawn from Israeli-Palestinian talks; Obama Mideast Policy Sabotaged by Netanyahu. Much of this has to do with Netanyahu’s...