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40 Years After Stonewall: No Progress on Gay Rights

Blaise Zerega | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blaise Zerega, Obama Gays in the Military, fora.tv, Commonwealth Club, Gay Rights, Steve Hildebrand, Barack Obama, Politics News

Steve Hildebrand, former deputy national campaign adviser for President Obama, contends that "Congress has done almost nothing to further equality."

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Video: BigThink Goes to College to Find Emerging Influencers

Andy Plesser | Posted 10.02.2009 | Technology

Read More: fora.tv, Duke University, Dartmouth College, Vanderbilt University, Georgetown University., Bigthink, Technology News

Known for its videos of big names like Ted Kennedy, the site is expanding to important "thinkers" who are not necessarily famous.

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Will You Really Be Able to Keep Your Current Health Plan? (VIDEO)

Blaise Zerega | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blaise Zerega, Richard Epstein, fora.tv, Healthcare Reform, Obama Health Care, Politics News

University of Chicago law professor Richard Epstein has read the crucial sections of the draft bill and argues that rules about current private health plans are unrealistic and unfairly favor the public option.

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Farewell to Van Jones and His Green Jobs Agenda

Blaise Zerega | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blaise Zerega, Fox News, fora.tv, Glenn Beck, Elizabeth Kolbert, Van Jones, Healthcare Reform, President Obama, Politics News

Saturday night's surprising resignation of Van Jones and the controversy leading up to to it reveals all that is good and great about our political system. It also reveals all that is bad and sad about it.

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Extremely Affordable Healthcare: $25 Incubator

Blaise Zerega | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Kembel, Blaise Zerega, Health Care Reform, fora.tv, Medical Devices, Stanford University, Chautauqua Institution, Politics News

Rather than simply looking to control treatments or reduce payments to physicians, the medical-industrial complex itself should be carefully scrutinized.

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The Power of Language: Dems Failing to Sell Healthcare Reform

Blaise Zerega | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: fora.tv, Boyle's Law, Health Care Reform, Blaise Zerega, George Lakoff, Health Insurance, Democrats, Obama Health Care, Politics News

The lexicon for health care has expanded to include the plural noun, "town hallers." Language expert George Lakoff soberly picks apart the rancorous words being volleyed from both sides.

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Healthcare's Public Option: Dean vs. Burgess (VID)

Blaise Zerega | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics News, fora.tv, Cato Institute, Blaise Zerega, Howard Dean, Michael Burgess, Medicare, Medicaid, Healthcare Reform, Book Passage, Obama Health Care Reform, Health Care Reform, Politics News

I have a sinking feeling that by the time the Senate has its turn, the public option will resemble a poor combination of Medicare and Medicaid.

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WATCH: Michael Pollan Sees Healthcare Reform Leading to Food System Changes

Blaise Zerega | Posted 08.24.2009 | Green

Read More: fora.tv, Michelle Obama, Michael Pollan, Blaise Zerega, Sustainable Agriculture, Universal Health Care, Novella Carpenter, Healthcare Reform, Omivore's Dilemma, Green News

Michael Pollan wades into the issue of health care reform by looking, not surprisingly, at food.

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Carbon Capture a Pipe Dream

Blaise Zerega | Posted 08.10.2009 | Green

Read More: fora.tv, Michael Pollan, Clean Coal, Fossil Fuels, Alternative Energy, Steven Chu, Agriculture, Blaise Zerega, Futuregen, Clean Energy, Coal, Australia, Climate Change, Australia Climate Change, Green News

There's much to love about carbon capture, in theory. But carbon capture continues our dependence on coal-fired power plants, and does little to change the status quo.

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Is Cap and Trade Already Corrupt?

Blaise Zerega | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Blaise Zerega, Energy, fora.tv, George Shultz, Commonwealth Club, David O'reilly, Chevron, Waxman-Markey, Green News

Negative reactions to the proposed cap and trade system were voiced by Chevron CEO David O'Reilly and by former Secretary of State George Schultz.

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Did Bad Energy Policy Cause the Economic Crisis? (VIDEO)

Blaise Zerega | Posted 07.27.2009 | Green

Read More: David Goldstein, Energy, Natural Resources Defense Council, fora.tv, Nrdc, Economy, Economic Crisis, Environment, Green News, Blaise Zerega, Green Energy, Green News

David Goldstein of the Natural Resources Defense Council makes a convincing case linking jobs, inflation, and the savings rate to smart environmental practices.

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Federal Benefits, OK. But Still No Gays in the Military. Why Not?

Blaise Zerega | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gays in the Military, Politics News, fora.tv, Gay Rights, Jason Bellini, Blaise Zerega, The Daily Beast, Barack Obama, Politics News

This provocative video report suggests that there has been some horse trading between gay rights groups and Capitol Hill

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Painting Their Fingernails Green: Power of Youth Vote in Iran

Blaise Zerega | Posted 07.16.2009 | World

Read More: Politics News, fora.tv, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran Demonstrations, Iran Election, Ahmandinejad, Iran, Hooman Majd, World News

What has changed in Tehran over the past four years to create a situation where a relatively moderate reformer candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi, can challenge an incumbent hardliner, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?

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How the Catholic Church Fought for Interracial Marriage and What It Means for Gay Rights

Blaise Zerega | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Political News, Catholic Church, fora.tv, California Gay Marriage, Proposition 8, Interracial Marriage, Gay Marriage, Politics News

It was the Catholic Church that stepped forward to successfully challenge anti-miscegenation law. How much longer before the law of the land applies to all its citizens, gay and straight alike?

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Civil Rights: Is Gay the New Black?

Blaise Zerega | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: California Gay Marriage, Proposition 8, Martin Luther King, Prop 8, Michael Eric Dyson, Civil Unions, Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, Politics, fora.tv, Mayor Gavin Newsom, Politics News

Leave it to Michael Eric Dyson to connect the dots between Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Ghandi, James Baldwin and Martin Luther King.

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Abolish Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings

Blaise Zerega | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aspen Institute, Abraham Lincoln, Supreme Court, Politics News, Aspen Ideas Festival, fora.tv, Sandra Day O'Connor, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News

As the rhetoric escalates over President Obama's nomination of judge Sonia Sotomayor, the confirmation process promises to reveal both the good and ba...

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