Category: Politics
Zombies and World War Z: An Apocalypse for Liberals
by James Berger | Jul 19, 2013 | Economy, Foreign PolicyOur fantasies of the predatory and non-conscious undead have something to do with the impasses in our social-political lives. Our social-political-economic world is founded on predation and unshakeable hierarchies. No other world is imaginable. How can it be changed? We find ourselves unable to say. But we can imagine how it could be destroyed. Asteroids, […]
Obama Is Right, Stay Out of Syria
by Doug Daniels | Jul 19, 2013 | Foreign PolicyIn Lebanon, opposition to the minority government led to 15 years of brutal civil war. At the time, President Ronald Reagan was harshly criticized for withdrawing our troops after the bombing of our marine barracks in Beirut. Dire predictions were made by The Hawks who insisted it would erode our credibility and embolden the Soviets. […]
House Bill Strips Rights and Protections from Immigrants
by Win Vitkowsky | Jul 18, 2013 | Legal AffairsImmigration reform is now in the hands of the Republican-controlled house, and the judiciary committee released its own version of a guest-worker program that passed committee Wednesday. The bill, proposed by Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va., pictured) removes wage protections, takes the program out of the hands of the Department of Labor, and limits the ability […]
The Meaning of Dzhoktar Tsarnaev on the Cover of Rolling Stone
by Tom Gogola | Jul 18, 2013 | Media, National SecurityDespite the cries of protest and the outrage, and despite the widespread banning of the magazine, the image of Boston marathon bomber Dzhoktar Tsarnaev now depicted on the latest issue of Rolling Stone does not “glorify” the photogenic bomber. Rather, the power of the image of Tsarnaev—wearing a designer t-shirt and looking every bit like […]
How White Supremacy Tells Its Stories
by Kimberly B. George | Jul 18, 2013 | PoliticsThe acquittal of George Zimmerman, the man who shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, has a violent history in the American public imagination in which black men are routinely represented as the aggressor to justify white violence. From late 19th century lynchings in the name of “protecting” white womanhood and Emmett Till’s 1955 murder to […]
Bad Faith Documentary
