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...them a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy. As J. Hoberman noted in The Village Voice: "Abortion was made illegal in Romania in 1966; by the time Ceausescu was overthrown 23 years later, an estimated half-million women had died as a result of botched illegal abortions. The nation's overflowing orphanages were notorious for their subhuman conditions...
...millions of TV viewers tuned in to the miniseries version of Alex Haley's Roots, the story of a young man taken from his West African village to work as a slave on a southern plantation. But while the nation's attention was riveted on the depiction of Haley's family tree, the piquing of interest in America's shameful history didn't translate to many other accounts of the transatlantic slave trade...
...both Dewey’s time and ours, this means liberation from material insecurity, from economic coercion, and from cultural repression so that each individual can fully benefit from the teeming cultural and economic resources that too few in our nation enjoy. Formal liberty—the legal constructs that conservatives subsume under the rhetoric of “equality of opportunity”—thus becomes opposed to what Dewey called “effective liberty of thought and action.” It is the latter that leads to an unchanging but endlessly adaptable ideal: granting...
...Obama's outreach to students didn't spring from some starry-eyed principle. It started as a specific element of his early strategy in Iowa. The first-in-the-nation caucuses allow 17-year-olds to vote if they are going to turn 18 before the general election, which means most high school seniors are eligible. To win those kids, Obama did something unusual in politics: he made them a genuine priority. After his rallies in towns across the state, he met backstage with student leaders from the area - a privilege most campaigns reserve for local VIPs and fund raisers...
...hoping for progress. As Iraq metastasized into a civil war, he began to vote for a responsible withdrawal. That Bill Clinton would turn this into an attack against Obama was almost as absurd as Clinton's turning Obama's statement that Ronald Reagan had changed the trajectory of the nation - and that, for a time, the Republicans had been the party of ideas - into a claim that Obama thought G.O.P. ideas were better. Clinton, after all, had said the same sort of things about Republicans in 1992. And he had been tougher on Democrats, decrying "the brain-dead politics...