Category: Politics
Wall Street Bonuses vs the Minimum Wage
by Sarah Anderson | Mar 13, 2014 | EconomyPurveyors of Ferraris and high-end Swiss watches keep their fingers crossed toward the end of each calendar year, hoping that the big Wall Street banks will be generous with their annual cash bonuses. New figures show that the bonus bonanza of 2013 didn’t disappoint. According to the New York State Comptroller’s office, Wall Street […]
On the Web’s Silver Anniversary
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 13, 2014 | EconomyExactly 25 years ago, the British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee (pictured) conceptually “invented” the World Wide Web—and set in motion a process that would rapidly make the online world an essential part of our daily lives. By 1995, 14 percent of Americans were surfing the web. The level today: 87 percent. And among young […]
Striking to Save a Great University
by Marjorie Elizabeth Wood | Mar 13, 2014 | EconomyEarlier this year, hundreds of faculty members at the University of Illinois-Chicago canceled their classes and went on strike. In the first faculty walkout in UIC history, they picketed the campus for two days. What could professors possibly have to complain about? Nearly everything. And it might not be what you think. Today, more […]
The Moral Amnesia of Leon Wieseltier
by Jim Sleeper | Mar 12, 2014 | Foreign Policy, Politicsphoto: Haaretz “There is the question of how to respond practically to Putin’s aggression and there is the question of how to respond intellectually,” writes Leon Wieseltier, of The New Republic, in his most recent column. “The latter is no less important than the former, because the Ukrainian crisis is not a transient event but […]
Why Tea Party Should Support Minimum Wage
by John Stoehr | Mar 5, 2014 | PoliticsIf Tea Party Republicans were political animals, they’d support President Obama’s call to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. I know that sounds insane. A federally mandated wage appears to embody most everything the Tea Party stands against. But as the Tea Party struggles in this year’s midterm elections against the Republican […]
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