Comments of the Week: Komen, Drones and Mortgages Comments of the Week: Komen, Drones and Mortgages
Each week we post a run-down of the best of our reader comments with the hopes of highlighting some of your most valuable insights and encouraging more people to join the fray.
Feb 10, 2012 / Sarah Arnold
Pro-Choice and Catholic Groups Praise Compromise on Contraceptive Access Pro-Choice and Catholic Groups Praise Compromise on Contraceptive Access
Does the US Conference of Catholic Bishops care more about playing politics than serving Catholics?
Feb 10, 2012 / Emily Douglas
Arizona Law Would Make It Illegal to Teach Law, History or Literature Arizona Law Would Make It Illegal to Teach Law, History or Literature
This law would not only block the teaching of such classics as Ulysses, The Canterbury Tales, and Catcher in the Rye, it’d prohibit historians and law professors from compe...
Feb 10, 2012 / StudentNation / Angus Johnston
State Department Inspector General Faults Keystone Approval Process State Department Inspector General Faults Keystone Approval Process
Mainstream outlets are focusing on the topline of the Inspector General's report—but many problems were uncovered.
Feb 10, 2012 / George Zornick
Nancy Grace, Policymaker Nancy Grace, Policymaker
Caylee’s Law, a bill whipped up after the Casey Anthony acquittal, is moving forward in several states, thanks in part to Grace’s tirades—and despite criticism fr...
Feb 10, 2012 / Sarah Stillman
Paul Ryan’s ‘New Reagan’ Speech Positions for Romney Implosion Paul Ryan’s ‘New Reagan’ Speech Positions for Romney Implosion
House Budget Committee chair uses his CPAC speech to hint about an alternative Republican presidential prospect like, er, Paul Ryan.
Feb 10, 2012 / John Nichols
White Christian Nationalism at CPAC White Christian Nationalism at CPAC
The Conservative Political Action Conference hosted a panel on “The Failure of Multiculturalism” with some sketchy speakers.
Feb 10, 2012 / Ben Adler
This Week in Poverty: Perfect Storm Threatens Long-Term Unemployed This Week in Poverty: Perfect Storm Threatens Long-Term Unemployed
Federal and state proposals to reduce unemployment benefits or make them harder to obtain place millions of unemployed people at risk of falling into poverty.
Feb 10, 2012 / Greg Kaufmann
The Wealthy 1 Percent That’s Behind Minnesota’s Voter ID Push The Wealthy 1 Percent That’s Behind Minnesota’s Voter ID Push
The perennial swing state’s wealthiest finance institutions and conservative political operatives are banding together to disenfranchise millions of voters, according to a ne...
Feb 10, 2012 / Brentin Mock
The White House Must Now Address FEC Reform The White House Must Now Address FEC Reform
A petition calling for Obama to install new FEC members has obtained the requisite 25,000 signatures for an official White House response.
Feb 9, 2012 / George Zornick