Category: Politics
Why Israel Is Irrelevant To Most Young American Jews
by M.J. Rosenberg | Sep 23, 2013 | Foreign PolicyI was on the bus, returning to Washington from New York where I spent Yom Kippur. I wouldn’t have talked to the kid next to me him except I could not find the outlet near my seat to charge my phone. He saw me struggling and helped me find it. (It was camouflaged under the […]
Why Adjunct Professors Are Their Own Worst Enemies
by Maria Maisto | Sep 23, 2013 | Economy(Source: Coalition of the Academic Workplace) Here’s the biggest obstacle to organizing adjunct professors who comprise 75 percent of college faculty, with part-timers working for $2,700 per course on average. Fear. Most assume adjuncts fear retribution. That worry is not unfounded. But many adjuncts feel paralyzed by a deeper, unspoken fear, one primarily internal and […]
Federal Regulators Finally ‘Mind the Gap’
by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 23, 2013 | Economy(Daniel Gallagher | Source: Bloomberg) Watching grown men fulminate in public can be an unnerving experience. Michael Piwowar and Daniel Gallagher—two distinctly CEO-friendly members of the five-person federal Securities and Exchange Commission—did plenty of fulminating last week. This article was originally published in Inequality.org and appears here by way of special arrangement. Piwowar and Gallagher […]
Taxing Carbon Is Like Taxing Diamonds
by Polly Cleveland | Sep 23, 2013 | Economy(Source: Creative Commons) To reduce carbon emissions, we must tax fossil fuels—but, say the pundits, we can’t do so because the tax would be regressive, clobbering the poor. In general, sales taxes are indeed regressive; moreover, as I recently argued, sales taxes are partly “passed back” onto suppliers, hitting small businesses hardest. This article was […]
Revaluing the Labor of Care
by Eileen Boris | Sep 19, 2013 | Politics(Source: ALA Care/Flickr/Creative Commons) They were to be neither nurses nor maids, but front-line careworkers whose efforts allowed frail elderly and disabled people to remain at home. They would cook and clean, groom and dress, lift and feed, even assist with medication. Sometimes they would run errands, accompany their charges to doctors, or take them […]