It’s easy to grow bored with public opinion polls, so many are there to consider. But, occasionally one comes along that rivets the attention. Like a new one by the Washington Post, Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University that shows the people who have been among the hardest hit by the country’s economic slump are the […]
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Deborah Mathis…How Did Militant Ignorance Become the Norm?
The time: Late 2003 The place: A newsroom in Washington, D.C. The event: A veteran Republican senator dispatches a news release, announcing the authorization of a new, jobs-making project in the state he represents. The upside: News like that will be to the politician’s benefit because the voters like their man in Washington to deliver […]
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Deborah Mathis…Idea to Repeal 14th Amendment Sick, Desperate
Sociologists and historians would remind us that it is the kind of thing to be expected when the country is in social upheaval and economic stress. Folks start looking for scapegoats, and they usually point the finger of blame at some kind of “other” – other race, other gender, other region, other religious group. But […]