Category: Politics
Mitt Courts the Junk-Bond King
by WS Editors | Sep 15, 2012 | Economy, PoliticsThe last time Mitt Romney ran for president, MIT business school professor Howard Anderson described Bain Capital—the firm Romney founded—as “the model of how to leverage brain power to make money.” “They are real first-rate engineers,” Anderson told The Boston Globe. “They will do anything they can to increase the value. The promise [to investors] […]
Are Liberals Anti-Science?
by Alison Fairbrother | Sep 15, 2012 | Books, EnvironmentReviewed: Science Left Behind: Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left by Alex Berezow and Hank Campbell (PublicAffairs, 320 pp., $26.99). Sixty percent of Republicans do not believe in evolution. Only 11 percent of Tea Party supporters think man-made climate change is real. But according to Alex Berezow and Hank Campbell, authors of Science Left Behind: Feel-Good Fallacies and […]
The Laws Against Voters
by Lou Dubose | Sep 1, 2012 | Legal Affairs, PoliticsIn our September 1 issue, Lou Dubose reveals the ways in which Republicans are manipulating voting laws in Ohio. Below, Dubose recalls the restrictive laws passed by 11 other states since 2008. Since Barack Obama won the 2008 election, Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin have passed […]
Working on Romney’s Farm
by WS Editors | Sep 1, 2012 | Economy, PoliticsIn our September 1 issue, John Stoehr reports on working-class perceptions of Mitt Romney. But what do Romney and his cohorts think of the people who work for them? Financial writer Josh Kosman devotes a chapter of The Buyout of America to Bain Capital, the company that Mitt Romney founded. The passages below are a snapshot […]
Stealing Ohio
by WS Editors | Sep 1, 2012 | PoliticsFor almost two years, the Ohio General Assembly has pursued a singular objective with the relentlessness that defined Melville’s most celebrated character: imposing restrictions on the state’s early voting laws. Not even when the legislators lost did they lose. When activists gathered 300,000 signatures to stay a law that imposed restrictions on absentee voting, legislators […]
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
Editor’s Picks
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By Anthony Barnett
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Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism’s Unholy War on Democracy
By Hamilton Fish
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God and QR Codes for Trump; The Courage Tour Goes to Michigan
By Anne Nelson
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Project 2025: The Latest Plot Against America
By Anne Nelson
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Possible Use of Depleted Uranium Munitions Adds New Dimension to the Human Toll in Mid-East War
By Barbara Koeppel
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What Does Putin Have on Trump?
By Bob Dreyfuss