“Desperation and Wild Inspired Hope”: Todd Gitlin on Why the Occupy Movement...
Todd Gitlin is a professor of journalism and sociology and chair of the Ph. D. program in Communications at Columbia University. In 1963-64, Gitlin served as the third president of Students for a...
View ArticleHarvard Professor and LGBT Activist Tim McCarthy on Life as a Second-Class...
Timothy Patrick McCarthy is core faculty and director of the Sexuality, Gender, and Human Rights Program at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. He also served as a...
View ArticleMarshall Ganz, Obama’s 2008 Organizer-in-Chief, on the Moral Urgency of...
In the early 1960′s, Marshall Ganz dropped out of Harvard to join the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. He then spent 16 years working with César Chávez and the United Farm Workers before returning...
View ArticleReligion and Reckless Courage: Activist Val Kalende on the Fight for LGBT...
In October of 2009, MP David Bahati introduced the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in the Ugandan Parliament. The bill – which proposed the death penalty for homosexuality – immediately became infamous around...
View ArticleMichael Dukakis on Campaign Jujitsu, Improving Obama’s Communications...
Michael Dukakis was the 1988 Democratic nominee for president. He also served as governor of Massachusetts from 1975-1979 and 1983-1991.On December 6th, I spoke with him about the lessons of ’88,...
View ArticleFixing Congress and Finding Peace: An Interview with Jack Abramoff
Jack Abramoff helped break Congress, and now he’s trying to fix it.In the mid-2000’s, Abramoff was earning $20 million a year selling his clients access to the Republican House leadership. He owned...
View ArticleI’m Pretty Sure Rick Santorum Lied to My Face on Friday
I was in Manchester, NH for one of Santorum’s “Faith, Family, and Freedom” town hall meetings. As the event was getting underway, I asked Bill Boyd, one of Santorum’s spokesmen, about an event earlier...
View ArticleOn Newt Gingrich’s Warm-Up Music
At His “Hispanic Town Hall Meeting,” Don Quijote’s Restaurant, Manchester, NH, January 8, 2012The first time that the Gingrich campaign played Joe Esposito’s “You’re the Best,” (viz. Karate Kid I) I...
View ArticleOn Newt Gingrich’s Warm-Up Music
At His “Hispanic Town Hall Meeting” at Don Quijote’s Restaurant, Manchester, NH, January 8, 2012The first time that the Gingrich campaign played Joe Esposito’s “You’re the Best,” (viz. Karate Kid I) I...
View ArticleAt a Romney Event Yesterday, I Was Removed and Arrested. I Still Don't Know Why.
I’d been in New Hampshire for the past several days to follow the campaign and see some of the candidates in-person. Yesterday morning, I was chatting up a Romney campaign staffer before an event at...
View ArticleWhat I Just Wrote to the Romney Campaign About My Arrest on Monday
On Monday, I was removed from a Romney event in Hudson, NH and then arrested. I then had a deeply disturbing conversation with the police about my civil liberties while sitting in a holding cell at the...
View Article“Lock Yourself in Your Bathroom and Then Imagine You Have to Stay There for...
This article screams to be shared. In it, The New Yorker‘s Adam Gopnik describes the intense, time-warping agony of life in prison:“It isn’t the horror of the time at hand but the unimaginable sameness...
View ArticleFive Disturbing Things About Mitt Romney’s “I’m Not Concerned About the Very...
Yup, not a typo. Romney made those remarks in an interview with Soledad O’Brien Wednesday morning.After all, he said, “We have a very ample safety net and we can talk about whether it needs to be...
View ArticleCarlo Rotella on The Wire, How Clinton Was Like a Spielberg Character, and...
Carlo Rotella is Director of the American Studies Program at Boston College. He writes for the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post Magazine, and the Boston Globe. He is also a regular...
View ArticleArtur Davis on Life in a Fiercely Partisan Congress, and Why it Might Not Get...
Hey all - just published this interview on my blog, and I thought I'd share it here too.Beginning in 2003, Democrat Artur Davis represented Alabama’s 7th District for four terms in Congress. Following...
View ArticlePhilosopher Christopher Robichaud on Truth and Knowledge in the American...
Christopher Robichaud’s office at Harvard Kennedy School is filled with role-playing board games, at least one giant John F. Kennedy action figure, and hundreds upon hundreds of books. Most are...
View ArticleIf You Have $250 Million, You Shouldn’t Be President
Just for a moment, let’s put aside questions of economic policy. Let’s also put aside questions about how Mitt Romney made his money, or about the moral legitimacy of the system that allowed him to...
View ArticleFixing Congress and Finding Peace: An Interview with Jack Abramoff
Jack Abramoff helped break Congress, and now he’s trying to fix it.In the mid-2000’s, Abramoff was earning $20 million a year selling his clients access to the Republican House leadership. He owned...
View ArticleI’m Pretty Sure Rick Santorum Lied to My Face on Friday
I was in Manchester, NH for one of Santorum’s “Faith, Family, and Freedom” town hall meetings. As the event was getting underway, I asked Bill Boyd, one of Santorum’s spokesmen, about an event earlier...
View ArticleOn Newt Gingrich’s Warm-Up Music
At His “Hispanic Town Hall Meeting,” Don Quijote’s Restaurant, Manchester, NH, January 8, 2012The first time that the Gingrich campaign played Joe Esposito’s “You’re the Best,” (viz. Karate Kid I) I...
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