Are Democrats Losing Their Faith?
Maybe not, but they may be ditching the faith strategy.
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Creating Together: The Power of Social Capital
We complain about something like the health care debacle, but look at how much sheer force has to be arrayed against progressive causes. Maybe we’ve been looking at things all wrong…
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Stupak Forming Fault Lines in Left-Leaning Faith Groups?
With left-leaning faith groups unable to agree on abortion issues, the religious right—with the help of anti-choice Democrats—were able to convince Democratic strategists that they spoke for people of faith. Will the inability to take a strong stance for women’s rights split religious coalitions?
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Are US Bishops Responsible for Anti-Abortion Amendment in Health Care Reform?
As so many pundits ask whether it was the 11th-hour activism of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops that enabled the anti-choice provision to be inserted into the health care bill, our analyst explores a different possibility: Democratic strategy.
Read MoreOn Bart Stupak’s Chances to Scotch Health Care Reform, Take Two
Turns out it doesn’t take much to spook Democratic party leadership.
Read MoreA Test of the Prophetic Imagination: Seeing a “Good Liberal” in All His Corrupt Glory
Barney Frank drops the ball on consumer protection.
Read MoreA Tale of Two Abortion Narratives: Dems Overreaching on Abortion?
Are the Democrats “overreaching on abortion” as some have suggested, or are some religious leaders willing to tank health care for minor gains on pet issues? Depends on whom you ask.
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Health Care Post-Mortem: Left is Right, Right is Left and Public is Loser
So long as the health care battle is focused on the model of market competition—the very notion that health care is best conceived as a for-profit industry—the whole debate is a non-starter. If a meaningful health care reform is to pass, Democrats and liberals will have to return to their social justice roots.
Read MoreProsperity Preacher Peddling “Death Panel” Myth
Shouldn’t a professed “health and wealth” preacher be concerned with health care? Apparently, politics get in the way…
Read MoreWhy Not Partisanship?
When a coalition of religious progressives stands firmly in support of the president’s health care reform, why insist that it’s not a partisan move? How about “God’s Partisanship”?
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