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Schools Should Compete for Cash, Obama Says

By Peter Laarman

…se of the commons. Over the past 30 years we have already seen many public policy moves to pluck some potentially successful students from the flames of unpromising school environments: e.g., the school voucher movement, the (related) strong and continuing effort to capture public funds for parochial education, certain strands within the charter school movement, and George W. Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” initiative. What no one likes to admit is…

Glenn Beck’s ‘Social Justice’ Heresies

By Sarah Posner

…to eradicating poverty is undermined by an insistence that government and policy have no role to play, except, as Olasky advocates, in giving people tax credits to donate to the charity of their choice. Olasky told me recently, “Beck is a popular entertainer, or let me put it another way: he’s a popular educator. He really does serve as a teacher in an entertaining way, and sometimes you have to adjust the teaching to the knowledge of the student…

Making Sex Costly… In More Ways Than One

By Daniel Schultz

…to have a say over what’s covered and what’s not for their children.” The policy is far from a done deal either way, Goldstein reports. As federal bureaucrats mull over the best policy, interest groups from both sides of the question will do their best to lobby them, which, as Goldstein points out, is a much more difficult proposition than twisting the arms of elected officials. But it’s difficult not to agree with Amanda Marcotte on this one: In…

The Protestant Mainline Makes a (Literary) Comeback

By Gary Dorrien

…ns continue to address issues pertaining to war, intervention, and foreign policy; debt relief, foreign aid, and economic development; white supremacism, racial justice, and affirmative action; women’s rights, gay and lesbian issues, reproductive rights, and child welfare; acid rain, ozone depletion, bio-diversity, and eco-justice; and much more. Routinely these churches and communities take on more than they can handle, leaving unsettled prioriti…

Fear Not, The IRS Isn’t Colluding With Angry Atheists

By Sarah Posner

…its concerns. FFRF is satisfied that the IRS does not at this time have a policy specific to churches of non-enforcement of its anti-electioneering provisions.” Responding to charges that there was an agreement that the IRS would “monitor” churches, FFRF added that it “did not withdraw its suit pursuant to any agreement to ‘monitor’ sermons and homilies for proscribed speech with which FFRF disagrees. As the court documents state, FFRF withdrew t…

Rick Perry’s Kingmaker, and David Brooks Wakes Up

By Sarah Posner

…y, another Christocrat favorite whose willingness to substitute prayer for policy rivals Bachmann’s. (Applying Brooksian logic, at what point does one deem the GOP not a “normal” party?) In Time today, Amy Sullivan highlights Perry’s ties to the religious right, and zeroes in on David Lane, organizer of Renewal and Restoration Projects, and their associated Pastors’ Policy Briefings. When I wrote about Lane’s activities back in 2007 and 2008, it w…

USCCB’s Dolan Blesses Ryan Budget

By Sarah Posner

…Congress. This fundamental concern should have great urgency for Catholic policy makers. Yet, even now, you work in opposition to it. As the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities has documented, “cuts in low-income programs appear likely to account for at least $2.9 trillion — or nearly two-thirds” of the $4.5 trillion in cuts in the Ryan proposal, including cuts to Medicaid, Pell grants, food stamps, and other programs. CBPP president Robert G…

Is Sarah Palin The New Leader Of The Christian Right?

By Sarah Posner

…e been writing about Sarah Palin since the moment the Council for National Policy blessed John McCain’s selection of her as his running mate. And there’s no question: her cred with the religious right is enhanced by being a woman. But that won’t make her the movement’s new leader — precisely because she is a woman. At Newsweek, Lisa Miller writes, “The Christian right is now poised to become a women’s movement—and Sarah Palin is its earthy Jerry F…

Are You Doing Your Part in the Baby War?

By Katherine Stewart

…broader scope that makes it worthwhile for anyone interested in government policy and contemporary American culture. Single-child families are on the rise, particularly in blue states, driven partly by personal choice and partly by economic pressure. Other developed countries such as Sweden, the U.K., and France, witnessing the same falling birthrates, have taken steps to alter the economic equation with paid parental leave, free or subsidized day…

Pope Backs Anti-Gay Referendum; Islamic State Executions Include Gay Syrian; ‘Conscience Clause’ Debated in Northern Ireland; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…marks a shift in tone from his predecessors, it is not a change in Church policy. The Vatican’s official Catechism still holds that homosexuality is “objectively disordered,” but that homosexuals must be received with “compassion and sensitivity.” This position, essentially stating, “Hate the sin but love the sinner,” is not new. Despite the Pope’s softening of tone, religious organizations have not budged on policy. Change in Latin America will…