Author: The Opportunity Agenda

Promoted by Steven D A surreal debate is playing out on Capitol Hill over a proposed expansion of the GI Bill of Rights.    Bi-partisan coalitions in the House and Senate want to increase college support under the law...

Much of the news reporting on the Supreme Court’s school integration cases has gotten it wrong, describing the outcome as a 5-to-4 opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts against voluntary school integration.  In fact,...

Cross posted at Daily Kos. The one-year anniversary of Katrina is less than a week away.  As politicians, the media, and the American public briefly refocus on the disaster, we are briefly presented with an opportunity to...

For years now, progressives have lamented the apparent monopoly that the Right has on framing the public debate.  There have been a variety of attempts to remedy this situation, from books like George Lakoff’s...

Healthcare got little more than lip service (much like Katrina) in the SOTU last night, but there’s still some problems worth noting in what little Bush did say. In the SOTU, Bush said that American has a responsibility to...