Category: Politics
House Finance Chair Hensarling Vacationed with Wall Street
by Justin Elliot | May 2, 2013 | Economy(Texas Republican Jeb Hensarling, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, vacationed with Wall Street bankers in January, raising concerns of conflicts of interest: Fox.) In January, Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, ascended to the powerful chairmanship of the House Financial Services Committee. Six weeks later, campaign finance filings and interviews show, Hensarling was joined by […]
Chauncey DeVega: The ‘Double-Cork’ Genius of Obama at the D.C. Correspondents’ Dinner
by Chauncey DeVega | May 1, 2013 | Politics(In a video skit, President Barack Obama played Daniel Day-Lewis playing Obama, reversing the conventions and expectations of the minstrel tradition of “blackface.”) Minstrelsy was America’s most popular entertainment for almost two centuries. It involved white men painting their faces “black” with burnt cork or shoe polish. “Blackface” validated white fantasies of blackness. By mocking […]
Arthur Goldwag: the Tsarnaevs, Conspiracy Theorists and the Politicians Who Exploit Them
by Arthur Goldwag | May 1, 2013 | Economy(Alex Jones claimed the U.S. was behind the Boston bombings to strip Americans’ civil liberties.) Boylston Street was literally slick with blood when Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick held a press conference on April 15. The first question came from Dan Bidondi. “Why were the loud speakers telling people in the audience to be calm moments […]
Massive National Security Leaks Are Good for Us
by Chase Madar | May 1, 2013 | Foreign Policy, Legal Affairs
As a general rule, important decisions—say, for instance, deciding whether or not to invade a Middle Eastern nation—turnout better when they are well-informed. Poorly informed choices tend to end in disaster.
Consider our invasion of Iraq—a war that has killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and is by no means over, even though our troops have mostly left. That war killed 4,500 American soldiers, injured at least 32,000 at a dollar cost measured in trillions. If you measure defending our national security in blood and money, this war was more damaging to our national security than the Sept. 11 attacks themselves.
For Bobby Jindal, April Was the Cruelest Month
by Stephanie Grace | May 1, 2013 | Economy, PoliticsIt’s become an article of faith in louisiana that Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal has his eye on a bigger prize. Jindal consistently, if winkingly, denies it. But in Baton Rouge, his national ambition is part of the landscape. That’s worked out fine for the one-time Rhodes Scholar and precocious policy whiz, who landed his first […]
Bad Faith Documentary
Bad Faith
“A great and powerful and timely film” – Ken Burns
Critics are raving about BAD FAITH, the sensational expose of Christian Nationalism from directors Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones
“One of the Ten Best Films of 2024” – Variety