Category Archives: Electoral Politics

Ecumenism is a Four-Letter Word

“The Catholics hate the Protestants, the Protestants hate the Muslims, the Muslims hate the Hindus and everybody hates the Jews.” Those aren’t my words, they’re Tom Lehrer’s, written many years ago and meant as satire. Like all good satire, there is truth at their core and some three decades later, the barb is still on […]

The Inverse Law of Electoral Politics

When I first started working for Greenpeace, in 1989, I used to attend a weekly strategy session on campaign finance reform, hosted by Common Cause. I was working on issues relating to toxic pollution at the time, but everyone working in the public interest realized that if we could just get big money out of […]