Sentences with phrase «of liberal activism»

Eli Pariser is former executive director and current board president of liberal activism site MoveOn.org.

The surge of liberal activism in response to President Trump's election has transcended the divisions that some Democrats feared would cleave the party after its defeat in November.

Demographers criticized the survey on methodological grounds for exaggerating the numbers of Orthodox Jews in the area, while representatives of Reform and Conservative Judaism and secular Jews warned that, if the survey's figures were correct, the New York Jewish community was leaving a golden age of liberal activism and intellectual modernism and entering a period of social insularity and religious obscurantism.

For Democratic presidents, Jewish justices (Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer) are seen as ironclad liberals by the party's progressive base, based on American Jewry's decades - old record of liberal activism.

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Regardless of the response, we view this kind of public CEO activism as a welcome counterpoint to the largely hidden involvement of corporate leaders in shaping policy through the hundreds of millions of dollars they direct to Super PACs, trade associations, and think tanks to promote liberal and conservative causes.

It will also generate more of the cynicism about journalism so many non-journalists feel, and heighten the disgust for liberal bias that animates so much conservative activism.»

Although the courts strongest critics are often conservatives, the prospect of judicial activism should concern liberals and progressives too.

They feel that they can avoid the subjective trendiness of «60s liberal Protestant activism, as well as the discouragement that resulted from the intransigence of the problems the liberals faced.

The magazines move from the strongly traditional viewpoint of Moody Monthly (a viewpoint carrying on the social ethic of late nineteenth century American revivalism), through the moderately conservative stance of Christianity Today (a stance that seeks perhaps unconsciously to revive the social activism of American fundamentalism prior to the repeal of Prohibition and the Scopes trail), to the socially liberal commitment of The Reformed Journal (a position seeking to be contemporary, and yet faithful to Calvin's thought) and the socially radical perspective of Sojourners (a perspective molded in the Anabaptist tradition).

The point I am leading up to is that for many laymen the gospel of liberal social activism offered to them by many pastors, denominational headquarters, and ecumenical leaders has not come as good news.

Activism was the answer of the younger liberals.

Petty apartheid, the public facilities Jim Crow practices that are truly being phased out in the larger cities (where they matter), are trivial and largely irrelevant to the grander strategies of both apartheid and liberation: A point sometimes lost on American liberals who remember the U.S. civil rights activism of the sixties.

However, in the years before World War I activism was a largely elite movement appealing to the educated but bored sons of the bourgeoisie, eager for excitement and glory and disappointed in the Italietta, the «Little Italy» of the liberal politicians.

«Thanks to the leadership of Mayor Bloomberg and Commissioner Kelly, New York City is the safest large city in America but liberal judicial activism and political interference threatens to turn back the clock putting people in danger and sacrificing the quality of life in the city,» Long said.

Now, all of that liberal time and liberal money is found to have gone to build a tool open to corporate messaging and conservative activism.

His fearless activism and constant interventions on behalf of the voiceless were legendary and helped ignite global interest on the plight of the masses and on Lagos as a liberal State that created an enabling environment for voices against oppression to be heard,» Ayorinde said.

«Thanks to the leadership of Mayor Bloomberg and Commissioner Kelly, New York City is the safest large city in America but liberal judicial activism and political interference threatens to turn back the clock putting people in danger and sacrificing the quality of life in the city,» Long said in a statement.

Before former President George W. Bush nominated him to the 10th Circuit Court, Gorsuch wrote and spoke against «judicial activism» and the perceived tendency of liberal - leaning judges to reinterpret longstanding laws as they saw appropriate.

Yet at a time when liberal anger over President Donald Trump and his policies has sparked a wave of progressive activism on all levels, some Democratic insiders privately worry that the party's future stars could grow frustrated if they have nowhere to go.

Flanagan, a 57 - year - old trade - directory publisher who once had aspirations of running for office, is now a study in conservative grassroots activism, illustrating both the way in which Tea Party groups can figure into policy fights even in a liberal state like New York, and how they maximize the influence they have with public officials.

She was nominated in 2011 by President Barack Obama to serve as a federal judge, but that appointment was blocked by Republicans in the U.S. Senate who complained of excessive liberal activism in her previous legal work.

The oft - controversial advocate used the occasion to fire on her favorite targets: the NYPD's policy of regulating quality - of - life offenses, and liberals who do not embrace all aspects of the progressive program and all currents of left - wing activism.

Frank's sensitivity analysis parceled out whether variables comparable to a state's liberal or conservative leanings, political affiliation or number of women in the legislature, could be tipping the scales they were attributing to environmental activism.

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At the same time, Ryan's marriage to a liberal Quaker and his own sense of conscience launched him into a tireless career of peace and civil rights activism that stood in direct contrast to his screen persona.

But it isn't good politics for her to trumpet a liberal transformation of the court when she's trying to win over the median voter, who may well be skeptical of more judicial activism.