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The Drug War’s Littlest Victims

Measures to put drug abusers in rehab instead of jail could rescue their kids from the cycle of addiction, foster care and crime. By Nell Bernstein | Originally Published at Salon. October 30, 2002 The last time Tracy Carter, a longtime drug user, was sent [...]

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The Bum Who Fathered Mother’s Day

By Diane McWhorter | Originally Published at The New York Times. May 8, 1994 | Photographic Credit; Heflin, J. Thomas. Senator. Image circa approximately 1905 -1945 by Harris & Ewing[/caption]You have heard the arguments against the rite of condescension that you are observing today. So I won't [...]

The Bum Who Fathered Mother’s Day2016-11-29T17:39:06-05:00

The Myth of the New Democrats

Becoming a media buzzword is the public relations dream of every Washington policy cabal. It is the signal that the media is ready to collaborate. The great PR success story of the 1980s was the "supply-siders." The term, which suggests a conservative concern with investment [...]

The Myth of the New Democrats2016-11-29T17:39:06-05:00
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