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Compromise and Crisis Continue in Obama’s Latest Jobs Plan
by Shani O. Hilton on September 7 2011, 10:35AM
Tomorrow’s big jobs speech will feature more tax cuts than stimulus spending, and the GOP is still not into it. Sound familiar? That’s because it is.
Topics: Economy, Jobs Crisis
D.C. Gets Back to Work—and to Its Lame, Half-Hearted Jobs Debate
by Shani O. Hilton on August 31 2011, 9:17AM
House GOP leaders will roll out more so-called jobs ideas this week, in anticipation of the president’s expected proposals next week. None of it is expected to meet the scale of the problem.
Topics: Economy, Jobs Crisis
House GOP Revives Global War on Women’s Health With “Gag Rule”
by Michelle Chen on August 5 2011, 9:28AM
Even as the debt ceiling debate dominated Washington’s agenda, House Republicans began a steady push on bills that would revive Bush and Reagan era constraints on global funding for sexual health.
Topics: Global Justice
Rep. Michael Honda: This Can Be a Tipping Point For Equality, If We Push
by Congressman Michael Honda on July 22 2011, 9:50AM
The vice-chair of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus says New York and California have taken historic steps toward equal rights this month. Now, he argues, we must push for full equality, including immigration rights for same-sex couples.
Topics: Gender & Sexuality, Politics
History Repeats Itself in Peter King’s Fear of Black ‘Prislam’
by Shani O. Hilton on June 16 2011, 10:41AM
In round two of the Republican legislator’s hearings on so-called radicalization among Muslim Americans, committee members fuss over a familiar threat: black men who convert in prison.
Topics: Criminal Justice, National Security
What’s Holding Up Job Creation in Washington? Let’s Find Out
by Shani O. Hilton on May 17 2011, 10:16AM
Colorlines’ D.C. reporter/blogger Shani O. Hilton will spend the summer blogging out the institutional and political hurdles, and the overlooked solutions.
Topics: Economy, Jobs Crisis
Rep. Chris Smith: Fetuses Are the ‘Most Persecuted Minority In the World’
by Akiba Solomon on May 4 2011, 4:55PM
The latest race-baiting from the anti-abortion movement. This one’s a doozy.
Topics: Akiba Solomon
A Closer Look at What Got Chopped in This Year’s Budget
by Shani O. Hilton on April 22 2011, 4:59PM
Among the worst examples of things that will do nothing to cut the deficit: a fund for the upkeep public housing.
Topics: Budget
The Long Racial History of the Tea Party’s Deficit Trojan Horse
by Dorian Warren on April 13 2011, 10:30AM
The American right has been railing against the size of federal government for centuries. We’d do well to remember why.
Is Michele Bachmann Shutting Down the Government (To Run It)?
by Channing Kennedy on April 8 2011, 3:49PM
Her tea party caucus is showing just how much heft it plans to throw around in the 2012 elections.
$327 Million for Women’s Health Will Shut Down Government, Say Dems
by Shani O. Hilton on April 8 2011, 3:27PM
None of that money goes to fund abortion, but it does fund reproductive health for poor women of color.
Topics: Budget, Planned Parenthood, Politics
Obama Can Save Government by Reviving His 2008 Mastery of Values
by Kai Wright on April 7 2011, 11:54AM
The president once argued the budget was a values-based document. Now, he’s all about process over purpose.
Topics: Budget, Kai Wright, Politics
Sen. Durbin Is Set To Revive DREAM Act Fight in This Congress
by Julianne Hing on April 5 2011, 9:30AM
Negotiations are expected to focus on the narrow version that failed to clear a Republican filibuster last year.
Topics: DREAM Act, Immigration
Another Budget Deadline Approaches, Poor People Still Screwed
by Shani O. Hilton on April 4 2011, 1:33PM
Congress has until Friday to decide whether to scapegoat struggling families by a lot, or just a little.
Dingell to Peter King: Don’t Become the Next McCarthy
by Shani O. Hilton on March 10 2011, 12:31PM
Homeland Security hearings into the “radicalization” of Muslim Americans begin with push back from Democratic lawmakers.
Topics: National Security, Politics
The Republican Attack on Women’s Health Goes Global
by Michelle Chen on March 7 2011, 10:00AM
Sixteen years after the Beijing Declaration on women’s rights, Congress seeks to reverse what progress we’ve eked out.
Topics: Gender & Sexuality, Global Justice, Health
Rep. Moore Tells Anti-Choice GOP Where to Shove Black Genocide Lie
by Akiba Solomon on February 18 2011, 6:45PM
“I know a lot about having black babies. I’ve had three of them,” she explains during Pence Amendment debate.
Topics: Akiba Solomon, Budget, Health, Planned Parenthood
GOP Moves to Strip Planned Parenthood of Federal Funding
by Shani O. Hilton on February 18 2011, 4:33PM
The right wing attack on women heats up.
Topics: Health, Planned Parenthood, Politics
Anti-Abortion Bills Surging Through Capitol Hill—and States, Too
by Miriam Zoila Pérez on February 9 2011, 9:32AM
The House GOP is making good on its promises, but so are state legislators. In all cases, women of color lose the most.
Topics: Gender & Sexuality, Health, Planned Parenthood
Jesse Jackson, Jr.: We Should Read the WHOLE Constitution
by Kai Wright on January 7 2011, 12:14PM
Originalists cherry pick the original ideas they want to (publicly) revere.
Topics: Kai Wright
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