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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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15 January 2006
Filibuster evasion
Paul Loeb
In the wake of the Alito hearings, mainline pundits are calling his nomination a done deal. Alito didn’t spew obscenities or green bile. He didn’t admit that...
03 January 2006
Extraordinary circumstances indeed
Paul Loeb
Remember the "nuclear option" compromise? When the group of 14 Senators reached their agreement last May, they said they'd support a filibuster only under "...
03 December 2005
Precarious lives
Paul Loeb
"Advice to Retirees: Embrace the future," syndicated columnist Tad Bartimus recently wrote in my local Seattle paper. Sounds good, but for Bartimus the future...
24 November 2005
Drowning the hard questions: A Nova special
Paul Loeb
Since Bill Moyers retired, I watch PBS pretty rarely. I remembered why when I saw the NOVA special on New Orleans, "The Storm that Drowned a City." It gave...
31 October 2005
The real Rosa Parks
Paul Loeb
We learn much from how we present our heroes. A few years ago, on Martin Luther King. Day, I was interviewed on CNN. So was Rosa Parks, by phone from Los...
24 October 2005
Hard conversations about the big easy
Paul Loeb
As the New Orleans disaster recedes from the headlines, citizen activists face a choice. We can focus exclusively on other newer issues. Or we can work to make...

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