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Stories by Glenn W. Smith

Glenn Smith is the author of "The Politics of Deceit: Saving Freedom and Democracy from Extinction." He runs DriveDemocracy.org and the Texas Progress Council, a message and political research lab in Austin, Tex.

Could You Explain a Vote Against Children's Health to the Children?

If an elected official cannot muster the courage to explain their anti-SCHIP vote to the children themselves, in a public setting we all can witness, then they must vote for the bill.
Posted on Sep 26, 2007

Gonzales Pleads the Ken Lay Defense

Alberto Gonzales is trying to explain away explosive revelations in the U.S. attorney scandal by using the "aw, shucks," or "I didn't know" defense that the late Kenneth Lay of Enron so famously used.
Posted on Mar 14, 2007

George Lakoff's Freedom Frame

The author of 'Moral Politics' says the battle to define freedom is being fought by warriors with radically different world views.
Posted on Jul 18, 2006