Category: Politics
The Criminalization of Everyday Life
by Chase Madar | Dec 19, 2013 | Blog, PoliticsIf all you’ve got is a hammer, then everything starts to look like a nail. And if police and prosecutors are your only tool, sooner or later everything and everyone will be treated as criminal. This is increasingly the American way of life, a path that involves “solving” social problems (and even some non-problems) by […]
The Great American Class War
by Bill Moyers | Dec 19, 2013 | PoliticsI met Supreme Court Justice William Brennan in 1987 when I was creating a series for public television called In Search of the Constitution, celebrating the bicentennial of our founding document. By then, he had served on the court longer than any of his colleagues and had written close to 500 majority opinions, many of […]
America’s Greediest Top 10
by Sam Pizzigati | Dec 19, 2013 | EconomyThe headlines haven’t been particularly kind to America’s most relentlessly greedy over the past year. In just the last month alone, the world’s two most visible religious leaders—Pope Francis and the Dalai Lama—have once again dramatically denounced our global concentration of income and wealth. And the world’s most powerful political leader, Barack Obama, has chimed […]
Don’t Deck the Halls for This One
by Mattea Kramer | Dec 19, 2013 | Politics(Source: AP) Channeling the spirit of the holiday season, key lawmakers managed to set aside dysfunction and take the first step in a small budget deal for the 2014 fiscal year. Back in October, Congress ended the 16-day government shutdown that cost this country 120,000 jobs by appointing a 29-member, bipartisan Budget Conference Committee to […]
The Betrayal of the Democratic Party
by John Russo | Dec 19, 2013 | PoliticsNext month, we celebrate two anniversaries—the beginning of the War on Poverty (1964) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA, 1994). So it is a good time to consider how these two programs affected the working class and how they continue to shape working-class political attitudes toward the Democratic Party. The War on Poverty […]
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