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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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...
28 November 2004
Hope for the Homestretch
Paul Loeb
In an election likely to be decided as much by voter turnout as by convincing the remaining undecided, how do we maintain the hope that’s necessary to keep...
27 November 2004
The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Hope in a Time of Fear
Paul Loeb
How do we learn to keep on in this difficult political time, and keep on with courage and vision? A few years ago, I heard Archbishop Desmond Tutu speak at a...

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