Social Policy and Change: Monday's Daily Brief: NCAA Slams Penn State

Monday, July 23, 2012

	POLITICS Obama Tells Moving Story Of Colorado Shooting Survivors
	POLITICS Westboro Baptist Church Protest Effort Blocked
	DENVER Shooting Suspect Reportedly Facing Death Threats From Other Inmates
	SCIENCE WATCH: Stunning Space Time-Lapse With Perfect Score
	GAY VOICES WATCH: Tripp Palin Calls Aunt Willow A 'Faggot' On TV

BLOG POSTS

	Leo W. Gerard: Hey, Romney, Let Voters See What You Showed McCain John McCain and Mitt Romney share a secret. It's 23 years of Mitt's tax returns.
	Jared Bernstein: A New, Simple, Smart Plan for the Fiscal Cliff It's really quite shocking how nobody in the policy world is considering ways to deal with an economy that's now probably growing even slower than we thought.
	Lisa Belkin: Stop Wondering Why There Were Young Children At The Aurora Theater Why do so many care that there were children in the theater? Or, more specifically, why do so many care so much that this is what they focus on before the bodies of the victims are even buried? And why do they feel so strongly that they actually suggest those who died might have brought this on themselves?
	Noam Chomsky: Destroying the Commons: How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta What we do right now, or fail to do, will determine what kind of world will greet the millennial anniversary of Magna Carta. It is not an attractive prospect if present tendencies persist -- not least, because the Great Charter is being shredded before our eyes.
	Joshua Kors: Guor Marial: Marathon Runner Flees Sudan, Heads to London Olympics On Friday, Guor Marial and I spoke about his extraordinary Olympic journey: from Sudanese refugee, to New Hampshire high school student, to Iowa State track star and now London Olympian.