Eleanor Roosevelt Was a Democrat, Right?
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home -- so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual...
View ArticleThe Fundamental Change in Policing That Needs to Happen
It's impossible to separate racism from the long train of abuses and usurpations that police departments in this country have perpetrated, but even if racism could be made to go away overnight, that by...
View Article'Dixie Swastika' Furor Offers Southern States a Great Opportunity
As a comment on another diary points out, seven Southern states (South Carolina, curiously, not among them) fly state flags that incorporate allusions to the Confederacy in their designs (including one...
View ArticleLet America Be America Again
O, let America be America again -- The land that never has been yet -- And yet must be -- the land where every man is free. The land that's mine -- the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME -- Who made...
View ArticleInsensitive UI Design Has Serious Consequences
Lauren Weinstein is my new hero. There is enormous, widespread frustration with the trend toward low-contrast interfaces and fonts, gray fonts on gray backgrounds and all the rest. Pretty, but...
View ArticleThe Euro Was Always a Terrible Idea
. . . and Jane Jacobs saw it back in 1983, before the euro even existed.Almost 20 years ago, I picked up her book Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life at a used bookstore in...
View ArticleI Believe We All Want the Same Thing
There are all sorts of ways to be a "nobody" in America today.Being poor makes you a "nobody" whatever your ethnicity. Being a person of color makes you a "nobody" whatever your socioeconomic status.In...
View ArticleSanders Backers Shouldn't Make Too Much of a Lead in NH
I'll keep this short and sweet: Yeah, it's exciting to see a poll in which Bernie Sanders is leading against Hillary Clinton. But if the poll comes from a New England state, even New Hampshire, it...
View ArticleMy Hunch About the Anti-Birthright-Citizenship Movement (Spoiler: It's Not...
Forgive the Godwinian digression -- it'll make sense in a moment -- but I want to start out by talking about Nazis.One thing that's not commonly understood about the Nazi regime is that despite its...
View ArticleWho Wants to Take Part in a Voting Experiment?
In this morning's election digest diary, I posted the following comment: You know what I'd like to see? NO map. (2+ / 0-) Instead, have every state elect its representatives at-large, statewide, using...
View ArticleWho Wants to Take Part in a Voting Experiment? (Update)
In yesterday morning's election digest diary, I posted the following comment: You know what I'd like to see? NO map. (2+ / 0-) Instead, have every state elect its representatives at-large, statewide,...
View ArticleWho Wants to Take Part in a Voting Experiment? Last Call for Candidates!
In Thursday's election digest diary, I posted the following comment: You know what I'd like to see? NO map. (2+ / 0-) Instead, have every state elect its representatives at-large, statewide, using...
View ArticleA Voting Experiment: Time to Cast Your Ballots
OK, time to kick off this demonstration of Cambridge-style voting. We're choosing nine candidates for the nonexistent but totally rad High and Mighty Daily Kos Ruling Council. (See this post for full...
View ArticleA Voting Experiment: The Counting
In a recent election digest diary, I posted the following comment: You know what I'd like to see? NO map. (2+ / 0-) Instead, have every state elect its representatives at-large, statewide, using...
View ArticleTwelve on Hunger Strike to Save Chicago School; Rahm Unmoved
I'm amazed that nobody has diaried this yet. I've hesitated myself, figuring that someone else could do a better job. But I guess it falls to me.Two successive Chicago city administrations, and their...
View ArticleYou Can't Be a Republican and Call Yourself 'Pro-Life' Anymore
From this point on, no more free pass.No more allowing the ideological "conservatives" who dominate the Republican Party -- in reality, not conservatives but radicals who want to dismantle the advances...
View ArticleWhy We Need to Stop Recommending Poll Diaries
It's becoming almost a daily fixture on the Rec List: a diary reporting on some new poll that says Bernie Sanders is gaining on Hillary Clinton by this much, or she's walloping him by that much, or...
View ArticleMy 2 Cents on the Debate: Clinton 'Won.'
I don't give a tinker's dam what the polls say -- especially unscientific Internet snap polls. Nor do I care what the pundits say.I don't support Hillary Clinton. I won't vote for her, period. Call me...
View ArticleHow Do We Win? We Begin With the End in Mind
I believe that one of the biggest problems with today's Democratic Party is that it's not asking itself, "How do we win?"I mean, it is asking this question in a limited sense, as in, "How do we win...
View ArticleDK5: The Comment-Killer
So these are called “blog posts” now? OK.I participated (a little bit) in the beta, so some of the things that people are wigging out over, I’m OK with. For instance, the type size and the leading are...
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