Advocacy Center for Equality and Democracy

I want to highlight and supplement a few points from Conor Friedersdorf’s post, Why I Refuse to Vote for Barack Obama, that appeared yesterday in The Atlantic. Friedersdorf wrote: I don’t see how anyone who confronts Obama’s record with clear eyes can enthusiastically support him. I do understand how they might concluded that he is [...]

Earlier this year, as winter was turning to Spring and Mitt Romney was still engaged in the Republican Primary contests, President Obama told Jeffrey Goldberg that he would consider invading Iran if alternative policies failed.  Thanks in part to the media’s enthusiasm for it, for a brief time it almost appeared that an invasion was [...]

This post is meant to express the Advocacy Center’s solidarity with the striking teachers in Chicago.  Whether or not the strike is an effective strategy, the interests represented by the union and the teachers merit support as they oppose the interests represented by Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Some people have confused those interests, which makes picking [...]