Stories by George Lakoff

The president uses a moral framework to cut through partisan politics.

The deeper truth about unions is that they don't just create and maintain rights for workers; they work for and create crucial rights in society as a whole. Unions created weekends, the eight-hour workday, and health benefits.

Global warming is real, and it is here. It is causing -- yes, causing -- death, destruction, and vast economic loss.

Tips for round two.

Budgets are moral documents. And a Devil's Budget, like Romney's and Ryan's, uses numbers for an evil purpose: to rob us of our basic everyday freedom.

Immigration is an important issue for Obama, and it will be discussed throughout this election campaign. The question is how it will be discussed.

Conservatives and liberals have profoundly different moral views about what constitutes a just economy and society.

Progressives' basic morality needs to be talked about over and over again, in every corner of the country.

The President's budget speech presented a straightforward idea of right and wrong that he correctly attributes to the founding of the country.

Budget deficits are a ruse to conservatives. What they really want to do is change the basis of American life.

When Democrats use conservative language to promote their agenda, it ultimately creates more support for Republicans.

President Obama abandoned the movement that started under his campaign. Here is look at what is required, and how a version of it is forming in California.

Barack Obama ran the best-framed presidential campaign in history. How is it possible that he and his team are communicating so poorly on health care?

The American public's understanding of the environment is crucial -- the future of our earth and every living being depends on it.

Even with Palin's inexperience and ignorance of world events, she should not be underestimated. Here's how Biden can win.

A simple redefinition of terms will destroy the Endangered Species Act in less than a week if we don't act now.

The true power of the speech is that it does what it says. It not only talks about empathy, it creates it.

The hubbub over MoveOn's "General Betray Us?" ad in the <i>New York Times</i> revealed that the Bush Administration and its active supporters have betrayed the trust of the troops and the American people.