Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. December 14, 2011.
While it can be disheartening to see the smallness of those in power, don't let it get you down, for they want us to become so disheartened that we give up.
The rhetoric of Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin and Rick Perry about the “real America” is not imagined: They and those who oppose them live in different Americas.
America’s ambivalent relationship with drugs and medication pushes us to ignore critical differences between drugs, while failing to appreciate useful similarities.
Emily Badger, Miller-McCune.com. October 23, 2011.
Might it be that the traits and culture of the first nonnative colonizers in North America have left an indelible mark on the local society where they settled?
The new recession that the Republicans are engineering will put into doubt all three pillars of McWorld: American consumption, European stability, and Chinese growth.
Since we are mostly batty when it comes to teaching kids about sex, many youth are exposed, out of neglect or deliberate misdirection, to information that is harmful or false.
Danny Schechter, Smirking Chimp. January 16, 2011.
Fascism is a term we are used to reading in histories about WWII, not in news stories from present-day America. Yet the word has crept into popular use.
Gilbert Mercier, News Junkie Post. December 15, 2010.
50 years from now historians may write about the fall of empire. But history is writing itself furiously right now, accelerated by the revolution of global freedom of information.
