Three Moral Issues of Health Care
With an issue like health, deeply personal but of great public concern, the faith community has a unique and important role to play: to define and raise the moral issues that lay just beneath the policy debate.
With an issue like health, deeply personal but of great public concern, the faith community has a unique and important role to play: to define and raise the moral issues that lay just beneath the policy debate.
David Epstein | Posted 05.03.2009 | Politics
Just a quick word on Specter's dropping out of the Republican party to avoid a primary challenge that he might well lose. The Republicans have been pl...
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics
The treatment of prisoners during the Bush years is a stain on the moral standing of the US which the rest of the world will not easily forget.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics
Certainly their political and social agendas are at other ends of the political spectrum, and yet their modus operandi and their damage to the civil conduct of governance are uncannily similar.
Mark Nickolas | Posted 01.29.2009 | Politics
The same political Neanderthals that helped execute their disastrous strategy of the last two election cycles are still firmly in control of House Republicans.
Denis Campbell | Posted 01.25.2009 | Politics
It was a message not directly spoken but heard by all... yesterday President Obama met privately with House and Senate Republicans all without aids in...
Lanny Davis | Posted 01.22.2009 | Living
The Civility Project is a call to everyone to act with graciousness, kindness, common decency and respect toward all people, and particularly those with whom we disagree.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.14.2008 | Media
The "60 vote" threshold is an artificial obstructionist creation of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and the Senate Republicans.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama was in the No-Gloat Zone. For his very first speech as president-elect... Obama crafted a message with much of the scope and power of an inaugural address.
Lisa Earle McLeod | Posted 09.02.2008 | Living
It's another political season, and the spin doctors are priming the pump. The name of the game is division. Splitting complex issues into polar opposi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics
Twitter, the revolutionary web tool that I frequently use to let friends and colleagues know precisely where I will be getting soused on any given nig...
Rep. Barney Frank | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics
When Senator Obama dismisses our efforts to fight the right wing in the 90s, it suggests to me that he underestimates the difficulty of the job. The battles we waged in the 90s remain essential to our vision today.
Charles H. Green | Posted 10.16.2007 | Politics
Democrats and liberals do not lack moral issues, but they have ceded the use of moral language to those who choose to apply it mainly to abortion, flag-wearing, gun ownership and "creationism."
Joe Bodell | Posted 10.02.2007 | Politics
Press releases, news cycles, messaging, framing, platforms, fundraising totals, horseraces, and party lines. Does any of it matter anymore? There wa...
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Jim Wallis | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics