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As Right-Wingers Stoke Moral Panic About Trans Youth, School Boards Confront A Democratic Dilemma
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Democracy poses a dilemma where matters of professional expertise come into play, and the recent MAGA assault on public education, trans youth, sex education and the LBGTQ community broadly has forced local school boards to serve as a petri dish for handling that dilemma. On the one hand, the essence of democratic self-government is open deliberation to hash out questions on which public sentiment is divided.
As Right-Wingers Stoke Moral Panic About Trans Youth, School Boards Confront A Democratic Dilemma
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Democracy poses a dilemma where matters of professional expertise come into play, and the recent MAGA assault on public education, trans youth, sex education and the LBGTQ community broadly has forced local school boards to serve as a petri dish for handling that dilemma. On the one hand, the essence of democratic self-government is open deliberation to hash out questions on which public sentiment is divided.
Opinion: How to Win Over Opponents of Street Safety
Safety first. Controversy second. David Shorr serves as an alderperson on the city council in Stevens Point, Wisconsin and was at the center of a rancorous battle over a road diet on Stanley Street for his first two years in office. He and his co-author, Kathleen Sullivan, offered this list of lessons learned for communities across the country engaged in similar conflicts.
What Was So Great About the Clash?, PopMatters
We all know that the Clash (1976-1983) wear the halo of eternal coolness. History has been very kind to them. What is the big deal, anyway? For me, the question is personal. Abiding loyalty as a Clash fan has been a constant through much of my own history. From youth to middle age, the songs have held me in their thrall.
If There Was Ever A Year To Experiment On Thanksgiving, 2020 Is It: TPM’s Cookbook Recommendations
Hidden in the back corners of the TPM Slack lies a hidden gem. A small but lively messaging channel that has taken on a life of its own over the years. It’s comprised of six kindred souls who came together by word of mouth and many not-so-secret invites to trade recipes, share pictures and videos on all things food, and celebrate the much-beloved Dutch Oven.
Bipartisan Cooperation After Trump: The Ball Is In The Republicans’ Court
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. How can elected leaders govern and address problems in a two-party system when one party has become completely unmoored? This is one of the central difficulties of the current moment, and we’ve barely begun to reckon with it. The natural desire after an election is for a political armistice in which the parties suspend hostilities and share responsibility for governing.
Dems Will Welcome One Of The Most Diverse Groups Of Elected Officials To Public Office In 2021. GOPers Will Get A Little More Diverse Too
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. We are running a series of articles on progressive victories that came out of the 2020 election at the state and local level. From county sheriff to Congress, in blue, red, and purple parts of the country, American voters elected one of the most diverse groups of elected officials in the nation’s history, including a Black-Indian woman as vice president.
WI Dems Acted Quickly To Spur Voter Turnout In April. Can They Maintain That Momentum This Fall?
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. The authors are professional evaluators. One holds a leadership position in the Wisconsin Democratic Party as chair of its Environmental Caucus. When the realities of social distancing hit home in the second week of March, Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair Ben Wikler already had a plan for remote campaigning — one he had rejected just weeks before as impractical.
The Responsibility Doctrine
Nina Hachigian Nina Hachigian is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. She is the co-author of The Next American Century: How the US Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise and worked on the staff of the National Security Council under President Clinton 1. Important sources on emerging and established powers jointly fulfilling “responsibility” include: Richard N.
The Battle of Stanley Street: How My Skeptical Town Approved a Road Diet
Right after my Spring 2016 election to city council in Stevens Point, WI, a constituent told me it was time to brush up on my Jane Jacobs. His advice was more on-target than either of us could’ve known. In all honesty, at the time I wasn’t really up for delving back into Life and Death of Great American Cities. So I did the next best thing and read Jeff Speck’s Walkable City.
What Was So Great about the Clash, Anyway?
We all know that the Clash (1976-1983) wear the halo of eternal coolness. History has been very kind to them. What is the big deal, anyway? For me, the question is personal. Abiding loyalty as a Clash fan has been a constant through much of my own history. From youth to middle age, the songs have held me in their thrall.
Retailers' tax dodge shifts burden to homeowners
Recently I went to Madison as part of a delegation of Stevens Point elected officials for the League of Wisconsin Municipalities’ lobby day. At the top of the agenda: a tax dodge that major retailers are using to avoid paying their fair share of property taxes and shift the burden to the rest of us. In Wisconsin and elsewhere, companies like Walgreens and Target have been disputing their tax bills with a strained argument about the assessed value of their store locations.
Republicans are out of ideas
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan wants us to see him as the Republican anti-Trump, offering a very different style of leadership for their party. Throughout his political career, Ryan has built a brand for himself as a man of ideas. In 2016, this means a sharp contrast with the party’s blustery and provocative nominee. It was hard to miss Ryan’s point last month in Cleveland, where he told the GOP faithful “it still comes down to the contest of ideas.
Today's Republican Party is out of ideas
Throughout his political career, Rep. Paul Ryan of Janesville has built a brand for himself as a man of ideas. In 2016 this means a sharp contrast with the party’s blustery and provocative nominee, Donald J. Trump. It was hard to miss Speaker of the House Ryan’s point last month in Cleveland, where he told the GOP faithful “it still comes down to the contest of ideas. Which is really good news, ladies and gentlemen, because when it’s about ideas, the advantage goes to us.” Don’t buy it.
GOP 'slanderously misrepresents' Obamacare
U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner has written an entire opinion article about health care reform that was published May 14 in USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin newspapers without saying very much about health care. From reading the first section of the article, we get the message that the health of small businesses matters most of all because they "drive our economy” and are the source of everything good in America.
We Need Real Options For An Iran Deal, Not Unicorn Fantasies
What do unicorns and a perfect agreement to constrain Iran’s nuclear activities have in common? The question is rhetorical of course, but it makes a serious point about the deal recently reached by Iran, the U.S., and six other key international players, and is currently being debated in Congress. By any reasonable standard, the deal places stringent limits on the Iranian nuclear program and subjects it to highly intrusive verification—under penalty of re-imposed sanctions if Iran fails to comply.
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