Category: Politics
What We Talk about When We Talk about Google’s Jets
by | Jun 25, 2013 | EconomyGoogle operates its own system of private buses. The coaches zip up and down the San Francisco peninsula five days a week. The buses are sorting mechanisms. They help re-organize the Bay Area geographically, residentially, racially, between the tech industry’s uber-haves, and the rest who have not the luck to be employed by a company […]
Choose Your Own Dystopia
by James Berger | Jun 25, 2013 | Books, PoliticsGeorge Orwell’s great dystopian novel, 1984, was published in 1949. The U.K. and the rest of Europe were recovering from years of devastating war. And in eastern Europe, the genocidal dictatorship of the Nazis was being replaced by the rival totalitarian rule of Stalinist USSR. 1984 has become a template of subsequent visions of modern […]
No Job Either Good or Bad but Politics Makes It So
by Alejandro Reuss | Jun 25, 2013 | PoliticsIf you hear somebody talking about the U.S. “jobs problem,” ask which one. Let’s talk about three: First, even as unemployment has inched down, the economy has created barely enough jobs to match population growth. Second, this enormous labor-market “slack” has stifled workers’ bargaining power and kept wages low. Third, even with a “tighter” labor […]
Class Action
by Nikole Hannah-Jones | Jun 24, 2013 | Economy, Legal AffairsAffirmative action occupies a telling place in a nation painfully aware of its racial inequities yet painfully divided over how to solve them. Great numbers of Americans support the overarching goals of assuring equal access to educational opportunity and maintaining racial diversity in the country’s institutions of higher learning. At the same time, polls show […]
Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer to Bring American-Style Islamophobia to the UK
by Richard Sudan | Jun 24, 2013 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsThe United Kingdom is about to receive two of America’s top exports in far-right extremism. The English Defence League, a group that advocates for the rights of the “European race,” invited anti-Muslim activists Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer (pictured, left) to speak at its rally on June 29. Geller is perhaps best known for a […]
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