This article originally appeared at Landscape, Joanna Guldi's blog. When the geographer Peter Gould sat down to write his autobiography in 1990, he looked over a career of mapping the perceptual spaces of Swedes, Tanzanians and college students...
Commonweal Institute Commonweal Institute Fellow Brad Friedman will be live on AM radio tonight discussing media reform. Listen online at http://green960.com/
Source: www.bradblog.com
Scahill on the hypocrisy and Rep. Grayson on the punitive, unconstitutuional legislation against ACORN. Some must-see video!...
It was naïve to imagine the United States would elect its first African American president and move instantly into an enlightened, post-racial era. It was naïve, or perhaps unduly hopeful. ...
(This article originally appeared at Alternet.org) Just minutes after noon, on January 20, 2009, "hope" arrived for Constitutionalists and supporters of its First Amendment...
One curious consequence of the Democrats’ electoral triumph last year has been the rise of Glenn Beck, a right-wing populist whose daily ravings on Fox News have helped inspire the anti-government “tea party” rallies across the country. In a...
The Nobel Committee's surprising announcement that itwill award the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama is a powerful testimonial to how much thoughtful people around the world appreciate Obama's basically progressiveapproach to foreign affairs...
Last month, the world lost a Nobel laureate. In the many tributes following his death, Norman Borlaug was credited with saving more lives than any man in history. Borlaug’s legacy was the Green Revolution – bringing industrial agriculture to Mexico, India, and Pakistan. Pe...
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Dr. Patrick O'Heffrnan (cross-posted at dailykos and wdisam.com; plese excuse the line break format problems)
This article originally appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle One hears: "Why should I have to pay for health care for people who don't take care of themselves?" Nothing defines the difference between the world views of the conservative right versus the progressive left more: the idea that...
Commonweal Institute Op-ed by one of our Fellows in today's San Francisco Chronicle!
Source: www.sfgate.com
Nothing defines the difference between the world views of the conservative right versus the progressive left more: the idea that individuals are solely responsible for themselves versus believing we have a shared responsibility for the communities and societies in which we live.
Over the summer, 60 members of the House of Representatives signed a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi stating they “simply cannot vote for” any health care legislation lacking a robust public health insurance option. Si...
A friend just brought National Affairs magazineto my attention, with the guileless query, “…let me know what you think.” What I think, sadly, is that there are a whole lot of educated people in this country who need to tune up their crap detectors. Look...
