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Loeb: If You Care About Keystone and Climate Change, Occupy Exxon
Znet Article, December, 28 2011
Paul Rogat Loeb
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The pipeline matters, because building it invites the acceleration of tar sands extraction
Loeb: The Republican War on Reality
Commentary, October, 31 2010
Paul Rogat Loeb
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Today's Republicans have been making war on reality itself, which should be a major issue of the campaign’s final days.
Loeb: The Election Needs You, Broken Heart and All
Znet Article, September, 19 2010
Paul Rogat Loeb
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"OK, so your heart's broken," as the old song goes. So's mine. But we have to get over it -- now -- and start taking action for the November election.
Loeb: The Seductions Of Clicking
Znet Article, August, 15 2010
Paul Rogat Loeb
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Without online technologies, Barack Obama would never have gotten past the primaries.
Loeb: Village Politics
Znet Article, July, 25 2010
Paul Rogat Loeb
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How do we respond to a political landscape where Meg Whitman can spend $80 million on her primary candidacy alone? Or where, aided by the ghastly Citizen's United Supreme Court decision, right-wing groups are pledging over $200 million for the Nov...
Loeb: Unexpected Environmental Alliances Amidst The Oil Spill
Znet Article, July, 03 2010
Paul Rogat Loeb
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In the wake of the BP disaster, we've heard powerful stories from fishermen whose livelihoods may have been destroyed for decades or longer.
Loeb: Stories Of Impact Will Push Us To Fix The Oil Spill, Homelessness, And Other Big Problems
Znet Article, May, 29 2010
Paul Rogat Loeb
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While I was on a recent radio show, a student called in from a campus "Rally Against 1070," that challenged Arizona's draconian immigration law. The rally was a great idea, part of the public outcry that's needed. But I wish they'd called it somet...
Loeb: Volunteers Can't Solve Our Problems
Znet Article, May, 05 2010
Paul Rogat Loeb
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Through Global Youth Service Day, millions of young women and men got involved in their communities last week, often taking their first steps into lives of commitment. That's a powerful potential force for change. But how do we help them, and ours...
Loeb: "From Drunken Party Girl to Climate Change Activist"
Znet Article, April, 18 2010
Paul Rogat Loeb
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When we try to engage people politically we never know who will respond, or when someone will shift from reveling in their apathy to taking powerful public stands. With Earth Day coming up, here's a striking example of one such transformation.
Loeb: Soul of a Citizen: What Cynicism Costs Us
Znet Article, March, 09 2010
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When America elected Barack Obama, cynicism seemed in retreat, beaten back by a wave of ordinary people staking their time, money, and spirit on the prospect of significant change... Now, cynicism and despair have bounced back on steroids.
Loeb: Saving the Economy, One Furnace at a Time
Znet Article, January, 20 2009
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Like most Americans, I’m guarding my dollars, but when my furnace died during Seattle’s coldest winter in decades, I needed to replace it. And when I did, with a high-efficiency Trane model made in Trenton New Jersey, the costs and gains unde...
Loeb: No Time For Nader: A Letter To Nader And Mckinney Voters
Znet Article, November, 02 2008
Paul rogat Loeb
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I’d thought little about Ralph Nader’s potential electoral impact until I read recent polls suggesting he was drawing 3% among likely Ohio voters, 4% in Nevada (plus 1% for Cynthia McKinney), 3% in Pennsylvania, and 5% in Missouri. This means he m...
Loeb: Volunteer Energy and Political Tipping Points
Znet Article, October, 15 2008
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On election day four years ago, I was canvassing in home state of Washington, alternately knocking on doors for gubernatorial candidate Christine Gregoire and breaking to call Ohio and Florida.
Loeb: Pit Bull Palin
Znet Article, September, 11 2008
Paul rogat Loeb
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When Sarah Palin joked about herself and her fellow hockey moms as pit bulls with lipstick, she may have revealed more than she intended. She made it sound a compliment—portraying herself and her peers as ordinary mothers who look good but are to...
Loeb: The Rovian Politics of Choosing Sarah Palin
Znet Article, September, 01 2008
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What does it say about John McCain that he not only picked the least experienced Vice Presidential nominee in America’s history, but picked someone he really didn’t know? Departing so far from any normal concept of appropriate background, he shoul...
Loeb: Will Clinton's Advisors Tell Her the Hard Truths?
Znet Article, February, 20 2008
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I know it seems a geological eon ago, but in the wake of Clinton's major Wisconsin defeat, remember the resignation of campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle? And how Doyle never told Clinton about the campaign's massive hemorrhaging of cash, while C...
Loeb: Hillary Clinton's Sleaze Parade
Znet Article, January, 22 2008
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Politics can be a rough game. Candidates need to hold their competitors accountable and challenge distortions and lies. And God knows, we need a Democratic nominee who's willing to fight. But Hillary Clinton's campaign has included far too many ch...
Loeb: Hillary Clinton and the Ghosts of 2006
Znet Article, December, 31 2007
Paul rogat Loeb
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Maybe Hillary Clinton's right that going back to the candidates' past illuminates their character. I'm not sure we need to know whether they spilled their milk in kindergarten, but let's look at the 2006 election. Barack Obama's Hope Fund PAC, Cli...
Loeb: Dick Cheney's Fondest Pipe Dream, Revisited
Znet Article, December, 26 2007
Paul rogat Loeb
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Ever since Hillary Clinton supported the reckless Kyl-Lieberman Iran bill, her Democratic competitors have been blasting her for her stand, and rightly so.
Loeb: Pre-Empting The Next War
Znet Article, October, 03 2007
Paul rogat Loeb
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With the Senate embracing the reckless Kyl-Lieberman amendment, we've moved one step closer to a...
