Stories by David Morris
David Morris is co-founder and vice president of the Institute for Local Self Reliance in Minneapolis, Minnnesota and director of its New Rules project.
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 Mar 24, 2008
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 Jan 7, 2008
The new book
Breakthrough believes we need hope to counteract environmentalists' dreary pessimism. But is this new "politics of hope" actually hopeful?
Posted on Dec 3, 2007
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 Sep 11, 2007
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 Jun 13, 2007
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 Mar 12, 2007
Why do we skew tax breaks to favor richer people and more profitable businesses? There is a way to avoid incentive inequity.
Posted on Feb 20, 2007
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.
Posted on Jan 9, 2007
In his new book
Capitalism 3.0, Peter Barnes writes that the costs of our current capitalist system are clear: inequality, stressful lives and a dwindling financial safety net. But how do we revise such a complex system?
Posted on Jan 5, 2007
When it comes to standing up to Bush and other conservative bullies, Ah-nold is a girly-man.
Posted on Oct 26, 2006
Four years ago this month, one of our biggest political assets was taken from us. Today, more than ever, American politics suffers from his absence.
Posted on Oct 1, 2006
The prohibition against using the flag for advertising purposes, as every American will discover on July 4, is universally ignored. It's time to enforce the Flag Code.
Posted on Jun 29, 2006
The future is here -- and it's a plug-in, flexible-fuel hybrid car that would transform the way we live and drive today.
Posted on Apr 21, 2006
Thanks to NAFTA's success, the flood of illegal immigration is up and the standard of living of the average Mexican is down.
Posted on Apr 13, 2006
As the violence over the cartoons expands, we are no closer to defining the boundaries of free speech in an age of growing religious fundamentalism.
Posted on Feb 14, 2006
Eight months ago, the Dems agreed to filibuster future Supreme Court nominees only in 'extraordinary circumstances' -- like right now.
Posted on Jan 30, 2006
From sperm to zygote to fetus to baby, isn't it time we brought some precision to the language of the reproductive rights debate?
Posted on Dec 19, 2005
In Paine's version of 'intelligent design,' science and religion are inextricably linked; in the Kansas school board's definition, they are adversaries.
Posted on Nov 17, 2005
If ever there was a time for government to step in and restrain unbridled corporate greed for the social good, this is it.
Posted on Nov 3, 2005
There's a stark difference in the way the U.S. confronted an oil crisis when Democrats were in control, compared to the way it has now that Republicans dominate.
Posted on Oct 3, 2005
In the last quarter-century, the rate of bankruptcy among air carriers has been as much as 10 times higher than that of the general business community.
Posted on Sep 15, 2005
If Americans knew precisely how the two parties vote on ideological bills like CAFTA and gun control, they could reshape politics. Too bad the parties -- much less the media -- won't tell them.
Posted on Aug 4, 2005
The energy bills now before the Senate and the House may be wrongheaded, irrelevant, costly and destructive -- but that's not the Democrats' fault.
Posted on Jul 13, 2005
The central question at the heart of the eminent domain debate is, how much do we value community?
Posted on Jul 7, 2005
Sam Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine and Patrick Henry would have found Bush's brand of patriotism unfathomable -- and even, perhaps, treasonable.
Posted on Jul 1, 2005
Can anyone deny that the American flag has achieved the status of a graven image?
Posted on Jun 21, 2005
In the name of protecting the Commerce Clause, progressive politicians have been palpably unwilling to speak out against the Supreme Court's decision about medical marijuana.
Posted on Jun 15, 2005
By defining the issue as saving the filibuster, Democrats once again made the issue one of means -- while the Republicans kept their eye on the prize of ends.
Posted on May 27, 2005
Science teachers can teach intelligent design as an alternative to evolution -- and teach meddling school board members a lesson at the same time.
Posted on May 23, 2005
We've established a system in which large and growing sums are dedicated to building roads, while small and declining amounts of money are dedicated to expanding transit.
Posted on May 5, 2005
If the public were compensated for the increase in land value that results from public actions, a number of public services, such as transit, could become self-financing.
Posted on Apr 19, 2005
Organized religion elevates superstition to an entirely new level, so let's call its institutions by their proper name: superstition-based institutions.
Posted on Mar 31, 2005
George Bush&'s "ownership society" leaves out the things we actually own -- our bodies, our privacy, our dignity, our bedrooms.
Posted on Mar 7, 2005
China's booming economy is increasingly dependent on imported oil. But unlike the U.S., its strategies to maintain access to oil are farsighted and coherent.
Posted on Feb 23, 2005
A two-tiered strategy for Democrats fighting the GOP majority: Obstruct in Washington and speak up for state and local rights.
Posted on Feb 15, 2005
A recent episode of the popular television drama raised ethanol trashing to an entirely new level.
Posted on Feb 2, 2005
Attacking patients or their lawyers won't cure what ails the health care industry. Insurance reform is a better place to start.
Posted on Jan 10, 2005
The Bush Administration's outrageous behavior at the Buenos Aires climate talks makes it official: the U.S. has become the world's latest rogue nation.
Posted on Dec 27, 2004
In war, one tries to demoralize and destroy the enemy, seize territory and gain unconditional surrender. Must liberals approach politics as war in order to win?
Posted on Dec 20, 2004
Is someone to blame for the flu vaccine crisis, or is it really just one of those unanticipated and unforeseen events that disrupt our day-to-day lives?
Posted on Oct 22, 2004
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