The idea of “One Nation, One Election” is a reverberation from the past. Though there are hurdles on the way, it is the way to go
While this proposition may appear to be a recent entrant in the annals of public discourse, the concept was, in fact, the status quo in the early formative years of
An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Bernie Baker Sat, 02/06/2021 - 9:00pm
In a recent Op-Ed, “A Litmus Test for the Climate,” James Boyce, of the Political Economy Research Institute, articulated the case for the most effective way to address the climate emergency: “clamping a hard ceiling on the total fossil carbon we let into the nation’s economy and ratchet it down year by year.”
Boyce acknowledges that doing so will inevitably increase fossil fuel prices for consumers, but that increase can be offset by placing a price on carbon that is returned to all households in the form of a monthly dividend check. Such an approach has long been met with criticism in conservative circles and by powerful business lobbies like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. That is until two weeks ago, when the Chamber shifted its position, telling the
president johnson signed, new doors of opportunity and education was opened for everybody. not all at once but they swell open. not just blacks and whites but also women and latinos and asians and native americans and gay americans and americans with a disability. they swung open for you and they swung open for me. efforts to pass that law first gained steam during john f. kennedy s term and after the assassination, it was johnson who fight tirelessly to get the law passed. i recently spoke with author of the book an idea whose time has come and he talked about how the debate did not always jive with the discussion behind closed doors. you know intellectually that a lot of guys that supported civil rights did not practice