Carville completed a question and answer for the Financial Times web site following a pretty hearty international response to his oped on Karl Rove. We got questions from Switzerland, Ireland, and Dubai, most memorably. Surely the influence of Karl Rove is over-estimated? Could it not be argued that factors such as (i) 9/11 (ii) suspicion […]
A larger narrative on lobbying reform and corporate responsibility has to emerge from this string of recent mining disasters. Corporate influence on public policy has undermined safety standards in multiple industries, and now very publicly in mining. Finally the Senate has declared they’ll hold hearings on the Crandall Canyon Mining Disaster and require co-owners Robert […]
An unpleasant surprise awaited me on CNN.com today. “at least 25 percent of doctors are women, up from only 8 percent in 1970. By 2010, women are expected to make-up one-third of the profession…What’s more, the pay gap between men and women is decreasing — women were earning 81 percent as much as their male […]
My friend Zac took a few really lovely photos at the DMI Summer Institute that I wanted to share. Keep clicking for more photos.
I’m just now getting a breather after getting back from my pseudo summer vacation in New York. July 29 to August 13 I lived in the East Village in New York to take part in the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy’s Summer Institute, a public policy program for young progressives. It was the most […]
Smattering of photos of time in New York. More photos after the jump. DMI Scholars minus one at the pier, pre-city lights cruise.
After following the Rove story religiously, I got a chance to do something on it for work today. We worked all morning on the boss’ “How Karl Rove Lost a Generation of Republicans,” and now the oped’s up on the Financial Times’ web site — and it was one of the first items on the […]