Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don’t ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.
There’s five factors or characteristics of places where kids from poor backgrounds don’t do very well. And those are places that have more economic and racial segregation, places with more income inequality.
Act right all the time, because someone’s always watching.
One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.
On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House.
It’s never too late to move to a good place to try to improve your child’s outcomes in adulthood.
Hope springs eternal, even in politics.
Can’t disagree with the need for a grasp of history.
Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don’t see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office.
If you take the same child and put them in two different places, it will dramatically shape the way in which their economic outcomes are realized later in life.
People do still cheer for the President. And some of the military audiences are more likely to cheer than others. I have seen him speak lately in front of groups like Freedom House, where the applause was a long time coming.
When the President was asked about global warming at a public appearance yesterday, he responded by talking about America’s addiction to oil. You make the connection.
Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods.
History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton.
If it were the Clinton people, they’d be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on.
Did I say that the President’s entire job is image management? Of course not.
I actually think agendas are more often found in State of the Union speeches than in inaugural speeches.
Don’t count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet.
I find that those who voted for George W. Bush are less offended by his religious references, and those who voted for Bill Clinton did not seem offended at all when people prayed at his inauguration.
It’s rare for a first lady to be running for president.