The public option started out as a viable plan, but it has been so undermined by compromises from the Congress and the White House that it will greatly disappoint you once you read how they did "Bait and Switch"
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It's not only the spineless Congressional leaders who are at fault. There are some basic conceptual problems in Obama's plan--but they could easily be fixed.
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Here is the text of the ad that will appear in the Washington Post on the 100th day of his presidency--assuming we raise enough money to pay for it (donate at http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/no ). Followed by our rationale for formulating things this way. Its message will still be relevant in the coming months, which is why we hope to raise money and continue to get people to sign on to it--so that we can print it in other media in the coming months. So please do sign it, even if you can't affortd to donate to help make it happen.
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Let's Get Behind Rabbi Lerner's Call for a Progressive Primary Challenge to Obama in 2012! 
Bob Anschuetz responds in depth to Michael Lerner's call for a creative way to use the Primaries to push Obama to the left, in the Washington Post December 4, 2010, and developed further on Huffington Post.
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Arts Education as a Spiritual Act
February 23, 2011
Joel Shatzky, Professor Emeritus in English at SUNY, Cortland, argues for the return of wonder to learning.
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Rules for Public Discourse
The Call for Civility Misses the Point--Only One Side Needs to be More Civil
Psychoanalyst Michael Bader analyzes the media reaction to the murders and attempted murders in Arizona.
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