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PPI | Front & Center | June 11, 2008
Senate Republicans Have Eyes Shut on Climate Security
By Jan Mazurek
The significance of the abortive cap-and-trade debate on the Senate floor was it revealed a GOP still in deep denial about the environmental, security, and economic need to put a price on carbon.
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DLC | 2008 Briefing Series | May 8, 2008
Immigration Policy
By Mark Ribbing
Immigration, particularly illegal immigration, has emerged as one of the most passionately contested topics in American politics -- and is likely to be a significant political issue in 2008.
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The (N.J.) Star-Ledger | Opinion | April 10, 2008
Finance System Cries Out for Reform, But the Right Kind
By Paul Weinstein Jr.
Whenever Wall Street faces a massive correction, Washington feels compelled to act. As we begin to consider measures to prevent another Bear Stearns, we ought to take a holistic view of how to improve oversight of the financial services industry.
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The San Jose Mercury News | Opinion | April 6, 2008
Bush Fails to Help Struggle for Human Rights in China
By Jim Arkedis
By heedlessly agreeing to attend the Olympic ceremonies in Beijing without conditions, President Bush has sent an unmistakable signal that America turns a blind eye to China's abuses of its own people.
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DLC | Commentary | January 29, 2008
DLC Response to President Bush's Final State of the Union
George W. Bush's seventh and last State of the Union Address didn't break an inch of new policy ground, held no significant surprises, and seemed to take place in a different country than the highly energetic campaign to choose his successor.
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PPI | Front & Center | November 26, 2007
Restoring a Proper Balance on Surveillance
By Jim Arkedis
The best way to balance security and privacy is to not engage in retrospective recriminations against private companies, but to pass new legislation that clearly brings future domestic surveillance and intelligence collection under the rule of law and democratic accountability.
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DLC | New Dem Dispatch | October 19, 2007
Idea of the Week: Three Reforms For the Housing Market
In a new Progressive Policy Institute report, Paul Weinstein Jr. offers three immediate steps that could offer relief to struggling homeowners and help for new homebuyers, and for the housing market as a whole.
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The Baltimore Sun | Opinion | October 12, 2007
Blackwater May Be Tip of the Iceberg
By Paul Weinstein Jr. and Marc Dunkelman
Capitol Hill is abuzz over allegations of vigilantism and recklessness by U.S. contractors in Iraq. But reports that Blackwater USA has operated outside the law could turn out to be a window into a much larger Bush administration scandal.
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DLC | New Dem Dispatch | October 3, 2007
Bush's Dishonest Case For Vetoing S-CHIP
Though it was hardly a surprise, President Bush's veto of bipartisan legislation reauthorizing and improving the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP) was still breathtaking in the fundamental dishonesty of the case he made for his action.
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DLC | New Dem Dispatch | October 2, 2007
Elephants With Very Short Memories
It's time to end the fiscal madness, and a good starting point is to expose the GOP's ludicrous efforts to claim the mantle of fiscal sanity.
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DLC | New Dem Dispatch | September 20, 2007
Democrats Getting Health Care Right
With the public increasingly demanding action on health care in response to ever-rising premiums and steady erosions in coverage, it's clear Democrats, and only Democrats, are rising to the challenge.
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DLC | New Dem Dispatch | June 22, 2007
Bush's Stem Cell Stand: A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Passed
On every front, it's time to overcome opposition to embryonic stem cell research as a bad idea whose time has long since passed.
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DLC | New Dem Dispatch | June 11, 2007
CIA Plan Blows Cover on Contractor Costs
We applaud the CIA for planning to trim its contractor staffing by 10 percent. It's a step in the right direction for all federal agencies.
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DLC | New Dem Dispatch | June 8, 2007
Crime Up, COPS Down
It's certainly no time to deny police departments the help they need to turn around the upsurge in violent crime. And we encourage presidential candidates in both parties to make this a serious issue in 2008.
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The Politico | Opinion | May 22, 2007
Debt Adds Up to National Security Deficit
By Paul Weinstein Jr.
The 2008 campaign is already defining itself as a contest over how to solve the problems George W. Bush will leave behind. To the long list of messes the next president will have to mop up, add another: the astonishing growth of America's budget deficit.
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | April 23, 2007
Age Wave
By Janet Napolitano
It's time to prepare for the graying of America.
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | April 23, 2007
Bad Rap
By Peter Ross Range
[S]ometimes we need to be reminded of what we're up against. That's why I'm disturbed by the bad rap that has bedeviled a 2005 documentary
film called Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West.
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | April 23, 2007
Fierce Feminist
By Peter Ross Range
If you read Ayaan Hirsi Ali's riveting
autobiography, Infidel, the cultural clash in Europe is mostly about gender violence and the suppression of women in service to a
"culture of virginity" that springs not just from social custom but from the heart of Islam itself.
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | April 23, 2007
Mindless Meld
By Fred Siegel
Anti-Americanism, explains Andrei Markovits in his new book Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dislikes America, "has been promoted to the status of Western Europe's lingua franca."
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DLC | New Dem Dispatch | April 20, 2007
Gonzales Indicts Himself
On his own testimony, Attorney General Gonzales is both an incompetent administrator and a stooge of the White House political operation. His performance is inferior to that of the U.S. Attorneys whose firings he now, sort of, defends. We deserve better in a chief law enforcement officer of the United States.
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