Category: Politics
Extremely Loud, Incredibly White, and Targeting the Occupy Movement
by WS Editors | Mar 1, 2012 | Economy, PoliticsFirst, an attempt to define the odd bubble in which CPAC exists. I am sitting in the press gallery listening to Iowa Congressman Steve King tell a crowd of 3,500 that he orders his interns to replace the energy-efficient light bulbs in his Capitol office with “black-market Edison light bulbs.” “The janitors, Nancy’s [Pelosi] Stasi […]
Kitchen Nightmares
by Jenny Blair | Mar 1, 2012 | Books, EnvironmentSo asks a Brooklyn teenager in the question at the heart of Tracie McMillan’s ambitious The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table. Writers on food rarely focus on why people eat what they do when their choices are scant. McMillan, a journalist who has long covered a […]
Voters’ Fate and the Buckeye State
by WS Editors | Feb 15, 2012 | Legal Affairs, PoliticsIn their reporting on the 2004 contest, authors Harvey Wasserman and Bob Fitrakis make a compelling argument that Republicans stole the race when they turned what was in reality a narrow 4-percent John Kerry victory into a narrower 2-percent win for George W. Bush. Working in concert with Bush advisor and fellow ideologue Karl Rove, […]
Will a Perrymandered State Determine Who Controls the Next Congress?
by WS Editors | Feb 1, 2012 | PoliticsAnd while it is literally correct to say that “the Legislature” allocated the House seats, the decisions were made by Republican legislators in Austin acting on directions from Republican members of the House in Washington. The Republican Party exercises absolute control in Texas — holding supermajorities in both houses of the Legislature and every statewide […]
Texas Metastatic
by WS Editors | Feb 1, 2012 | Legal Affairs, PoliticsIf the U.S. Supreme Court agrees that the Texas primary election schedule doesn’t allow time for the Justice Department or a federal district court to preclear the state’s reapportionment plan, a roadmap around the Voting Rights Act will be written into case law. Other states will follow suit. The Texas redistricting fight argued on the […]
Bad Faith Documentary
