Stories by David Morris
David Morris is co-founder and vice president of the Institute for Local Self Reliance in Minneapolis, Minn., and director of its New Rules project.
Posted on Jan 30, 2012, Source: On the Commons
The Super Bowl is a reflection of government aggressively intervening, not on behalf of the poor or the consumer or the worker but on behalf of the 1/10th of 1 percent.
Posted on Jan 24, 2012, Source: On the Commons
The Republican position on inequality rests on five statements, all false.
Posted on Jan 5, 2012, Source: Defending the Public Good
When a totalitarian regime aids and abets the rape of tens of thousands of children one would expect it to be shunned by governments and citizens alike.
Posted on Dec 23, 2011, Source: On the Commons
The 99% is more generous, and gives primarily to the church, while the 1% is more connected to cultural institutions that offer some payoff in social status.
Posted on Oct 25, 2011, Source: On the Commons
OWS demonizes powerful banks. The Tea Party demonizes the poorest and weakest of us all.
Posted on Oct 7, 2011, Source: On the Commons
The 99% is growing stronger and larger. The next step is to move the country. Which requires us to decide where we want to go and how we want to get there.
Posted on Oct 6, 2011, Source: On the Commons
The CEOs of Wall Street firms disrupted the lives of hundreds of millions. Why are protestors the ones who are getting arrested?
Posted on Oct 2, 2011, Source: OnTheCommons.org
Obama has agreed to cut Saturday delivery, 2500 offices may close immediately and up to 16,000 by 2020, and Republicans want to end free door-to-door mail.
Posted on Aug 9, 2011, Source: OnTheCommons.org
We are guided by our superstitions. The newest one? We can grow the economy by shrinking it.
Posted on Jul 12, 2011, Source: On the Commons
Any serious battle plan to reduce the deficit must take on the Pentagon.
Posted on Jun 27, 2011, Source: On the Commons
A story of how the public sector can vastly outperform the private one.
Posted on Jun 5, 2011, Source: OnTheCommons.org
The public sector often provides services faster, cheaper and more effectively.
Posted on May 2, 2011, Source: On the Commons
The public library is a uniquely American creation. Now we have to fight to keep it public.
Posted on Apr 20, 2011, Source: On the Commons
America is exceptional in the advantages we’ve had over other nations, not what we’ve done with those advantages.
Posted on Mar 24, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Public employees in Madison and professional football players in Green Bay both face powerful and hostile managements trying to undermine their unions.
Posted on Feb 17, 2011, Source: AlterNet
This time it’s not Packers v. Steelers. It’s Workers v. Bosses.
Posted on Oct 15, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Conservatives interpret the Constitution to support conservative objectives, but they won't admit it.
Posted on Jun 21, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Fed up with Internet monopoly, cities have begun to take things into their own hands.
Posted on May 1, 2010, Source: AlterNet
"Corporations are not people. Money is not speech." These are fundamental truths that our nation needs to remember -- and add to the Constitution.
Posted on Apr 15, 2010, Source: AlterNet
The vast majority of current tax breaks are fundamentally unjust and destructive. The good news is this harm can be easily alleviated, if we have the political will.
Posted on Dec 27, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Its first plus is that it's 39 pages compared to Waxman-Markey's 1,500 pages, and it just gets better from there.
Posted on Oct 2, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Happily, a new climate bill drafted by Sen. Maria Cantwell may change both the nature of the debate and its outcome.
Posted on Sep 23, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The real purpose of the right's attacks on ACORN is to destroy a remarkably successful 50-year-old grassroots model for defending the poor and workers.
Posted on Jun 6, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The new climate bill exemplifies a Republican approach: Don't tell polluters what to do, bribe them and hope they do what you want.
Posted on Feb 6, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Obama's plan for a "national smart" grid needs closer examination. An expanded national grid would be anything but smart.
Posted on Dec 15, 2008, Source: AlterNet
If Obama wants to set America on a new path, he needs to make clear what that path is.
Posted on Oct 29, 2008, Source: AlterNet
This happened before, in 1981. But this time the renewable energy industry is in better shape for a fight.
Posted on Oct 23, 2008, Source: AlterNet
It's not so much about their goals as the tools they would use to reach those goals.
Posted on Oct 9, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The new bailout plan passed by Congress may have put the nail in the coffin on Pickens' dangerous energy proposal.
Posted on Sep 15, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Palin is trying to appeal to the self-reliant, anti-government voters while her state is the most dependent on government pork.
Posted on Aug 20, 2008, Source: AlterNet
But so far, Democrats have been refusing to accept the gift.
Posted on Aug 2, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Renewables won't give us energy independence unless that electricity is used as a substitute for oil in our transportation system.
Posted on Mar 24, 2008, Source: AlterNet
All the gory details, as one of NYC's greatest buildings will be named after Stephen Schwarzman, poster child for the greedy hedge fund era.
Posted on Jan 7, 2008, Source: AlterNet
NAFTA failures; deregulation of banking and ENRON's rise; "Welfare Reform" that led to more poor people. This and more is what the Clintons gave us.
Posted on Dec 3, 2007, Source: AlterNet
The new book Breakthrough believes we need hope to counteract environmentalists' dreary pessimism. But is this new "politics of hope" actually hopeful?
Posted on Sep 11, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Those who say eating local is not always the best choice for the planet are forgetting one very important part of the equation: community.
Posted on Jun 13, 2007, Source: AlterNet
In the last few years, the environmental community has begun attacking corn-derived ethanol. Although imperfect, there are reasons to give ethanol a fair trial.
Posted on Mar 12, 2007, Source: AlterNet
These days, everyone thinks that carbon trading is the solution to our climate crisis -- from Congress members to Al Gore to the folks organizing the Oscars. Here's why they are wrong and what we can do instead.
Posted on Feb 20, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Why do we skew tax breaks to favor richer people and more profitable businesses? There is a way to avoid incentive inequity.
Posted on Jan 9, 2007, Source: AlterNet
George Monbiot's new book Heat picks up where Al Gore left off on global warming, offering real solutions without sugar-coating the large personal sacrifices they will require.
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