Category: Politics
When the Business Press Made Fraud Seem Normal
by Jim Sleeper | Jan 16, 2014 | Economy, MediaIn 1920 the New Republic ran “A Test of the News,” a special supplement to the magazine (published soon after as the book Liberty and the News) by Walter Lippmann and Charles Merz showing that in the three and a half years since the Bolshevik revolution, the New York Times had reported “not what was, […]
Setting the Working Class Against the Poor Is Backfiring
by Robert Reich | Jan 11, 2014 | Politics(Source: Getty) For almost 40 years, Republicans have pursued a divide-and-conquer strategy intended to convince working-class whites that the poor were their enemies. The big news is it’s starting to backfire. Republicans told the working class that its hard-earned tax dollars were being siphoned off to pay for “welfare queens” (as Ronald Reagan decorously dubbed […]
Push Washington Toward More Spending
by Jeff Madrick | Jan 11, 2014 | EconomyThe weak employment report out today reinforces the view that the Federal Reserve should not ease up on monetary policy soon. The strength of this economic recovery is not yet clear, and the Fed is the only game in town due to sequestration of government funds. Waiting another three or four months to tighten policy […]
Prohibition’s Central Incoherence
by Samir Chopra | Jan 10, 2014 | PoliticsA few days ago, I wrote about David Brooks’ inane op-ed titled “Weed: Been There, Done That.” Looking back, what strikes me as most galling about Brooks’ post and other pro-prohibition sentiments that I’ve heard expressed in the past is the shriveled, impoverished, reductive view they have of human character. Their advocacy of prohibition reveals […]
More Pressure on Bahrain
by Amanda Ufheil-Somers | Jan 10, 2014 | Foreign PolicySecretary of Defense Chuck Hagel was full of tough talk when he visited the island kingdom of Bahrain in early December. The United States, he vowed, will continue to guard “the free flow of energy and commerce” from the Persian Gulf and keep Iran nuclear-free, through the presence of 35,000 U.S. military personnel or […]
Bad Faith Documentary
