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...December 2009, a Congress dominated by Democrats quietly lifted the Barr Amendment, giving the city an opportunity to enact its old dope law. (Watch a video about taxing marijuana in California...
...failure of healthcare reform to gain traction in Congress in 1994 derailed efforts to tackle the issue nationally until 2008; as the percentage of uninsured Americans continues to increase, the issue continues to become more pressing every single day. In addition, the perceived failure of the Democratic party to enact their agenda, even with a 59-vote majority, will create the impression that it is ineffectual and dogmatic; this image would cost them dearly in this year’s midterm elections. Democratic leaders must thus continue the work that has already been done...
...cycle of poverty. Unlike the '90s, these are especially difficult economic times, and no one should underestimate the severity of American job losses or the fact that millions of jobs in sectors like manufacturing have disappeared for good. But politicians should be wary of how the public policy they enact could be reinforcing that misery...
...position taken by Mithika Mwenda of the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance, a South African-based advocacy group at the summit, is particularly troubling. Mithika has implied that efforts such as those of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to set up financial compensation for poor countries to enact climate change reforms will “sell out the lives and hopes of Africans for a pittance”—strong words for a leading African minister working toward the same stated goal as PACJA. Yet perhaps Mwenda’s comment aptly calls into question...
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People President Benjamin T. Jealous urged a group of aspiring attorneys to use their influence to enact social change at a lunch event at Harvard Law School yesterday...