Paul Loeb

Paul Loeb is the author of Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time and he The Impossible Will Take a Little While. new anthology on political hope, www.paulloeb.org.

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01 July 2005
They Died for Their Country
Paul Loeb
"They died for their country," read the white granite memorial in the Concord, Massachusetts town square, honoring local men who died in the Civil War. Newer...
21 June 2005
More damning than Downing Street
Paul Loeb
It’s bad enough that the Bush administration had so little international support for the Iraqi war that their “coalition of the willing” meant the U.S.,...
10 June 2005
Extraordinarily rancid justices
Paul Loeb
As the Senate votes in Bush's long-filibustered nominees, the nuclear option compromise is looking more rancid than reasonable. The seven Democrats who helped...
20 May 2005
Blurb: End the filibuster -- in 2015
Paul Loeb
If the Republicans really believe our top federal judges deserve an up-and-down vote, and that the filibuster is an unfair relic, there's an easy solution:...
14 May 2005
Nuking Democracy
Paul Loeb
At the height of the nuclear arms race, those who marched against it used to say that in the ashes of a nuclear war, no one could tell a capitalist from a...
05 April 2005
Abortion and Schiavo -- The stories we tell
Paul Loeb
Even if you've heard more than enough about Terry Schiavo, it seems useful to consider why Bush's political grandstanding backfired. Over seventy percent of...

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