Robert Rector

David Brooks's Anti-Poverty Program: "Bourgeois Paternalism"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Economic Justice, Komen Foundation, William Julius Wilson, David Brooks, New York Times, Charles Murray, Poverty, Tony Judt, Catholic Bishops, Robert Rector, Media News
Joseph A. Palermo

Brooks writing about poverty is like a celibate writing about sex: it's something he knows nothing about.

Read Post

Both Sides Now: Debating Vaccine, Jews & Inequality

HuffPost Radio | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Palestinian State, Egypt, HPV Vaccine, Turkey, Elizabeth Warren, Poverty, Ed Koch, President Obama, Cdc, Mary Matalin, Peter Moskos, Jackie Kennedy, In Defense of Flogging, U. N.; Robert Reich, Michele Bachmann, Jon Huntsman, Libya, Israel, Rick Perry, Arianna Huffington, Chuck Schumer, Inequality, Robert Rector, Politics News
HuffPost Radio

2010-06-28-bothsides_pull.jpg Arianna and Mary alternately agree and clash over the HPV vaccine -- women's health or big brother -- Obama & Jews in Queens & Israel, and the quiet crisis of growing inequality in America.

Read Post

The Perils for Obama of Not Talking About Poverty in America

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, The Poor, Edward Murrow, Heritage Foundation, Poverty, President Obama, Patty Murray, Ronald Reagan, Representative Paul Ryan, Economic Crisis, Poor People?S Campaign, Welfare Queens, Wisconsin Recall Elections, Super Committee, Harvest of Shame, People?S Budget, Mayor Richard Daley, Barack Obama, Robert F. Kennedy, Progressive Caucus, Martin Luther King, John Kerry, Poverty in America, Max Baucus, Great Society, The Other America, Michael Harrington, Republican Party, Robert Rector, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

It's strange that President Obama doesn't show any indignation about our long slide into economic oblivion. He's certainly not "fighting mad" about it. He draws a line in the sand, the Republicans cross it, then he steps back and draws another line in the sand.

Read Post

Science and Sense in the Abstinence Wars

Laura Stepp | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Rob Stein, John Jemmott III, Heritage Foundation, Culture Wars, Unwanted Pregnancy, Sex, Abstinence, National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, Stds, Chad Hills, Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Focus on the Family, Condoms, Sex Education, Robert Rector, Healthy Living News
Laura Stepp

When I read the lead paragraph of this week's news story on the success of an experimental, abstinence-only sex ed curriculum, my first thought was: "Yes, but..."

Read Post