Lauren, Feministe AlterNet: PEEK. October 5, 2009. A consumer behavior analysis firm says new research confirms that digital migration happens primarily along class lines.
danah boyd, AlterNet. September 3, 2009. The inequalities and divisions in society have emerged online in social networks despite the belief that everyone is connected by the Internet.
Charles A. Hohman, PopMatters. July 24, 2009. "Born in the U.S.A.", which turns 25 this year, stresses male sexuality as imperative to the American Dream. Where does that leave women?
Nick Turse, Tomdispatch.com. May 11, 2009. Even in good times, life for poor working women can be an obstacle-filled struggle to get by. In an economic crisis, it can be hell.
Jim Hightower, Creators Syndicate. March 12, 2009. Are right-wingers really claiming that the U.S. has never been riven by class resentment? Get out your history books.
Henry A. Giroux, TruthOut.org. February 21, 2009. The quality of life for many young people appears even more fragile in the United States in this time of political, economic and social crisis.
Paul Buchheit, AlterNet. February 7, 2009. Based on the cold facts of statistics and percentages, the poor are paying a greater share of their incomes.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. February 3, 2009. Last week, a Labor Party "white paper" offered a surprisingly novel -- and rather remarkable -- proposal.
Greta Parry, PopMatters. September 25, 2008. Though 1980s beach films seem objectifying and antifeminist, they offer a utopian space where class and gender hierarchies begin to dissolve.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. August 13, 2008. In the UK, conservatives don't have to take the blame -- inequality has soared over the last decade with the Labor Party running the show.
David Sirota, Creators Syndicate. July 24, 2008. If Obama counters the GOP's race-baiting by promoting working-class interests and a fairer trade agenda, he will win the White House.
Zephyr Teachout, The Nation. May 23, 2008. Apparently, in the United States, we don't have an upper class; we have elites -- a complimentary term that obscures true differences in opportunity.
Les Leopold, AlterNet. April 9, 2008. Long after the Democratic Party abandoned labor interests, Tony Mazzocchi continued to fight for the working class.
Mark Weisbrot, AlterNet. April 7, 2008. If Obama convinces white working-class voters that he cares about their economic plight, he will become the 44th President of the United States.
Peter Dreier, The American Prospect. April 3, 2008. Contrary to class stereotypes, wealthy whites are more likely than working-class whites to use the race card in the voting booth.
Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet. April 1, 2008. To have a truly productive conversation about race we must address the wealth disparities that perpetuate racial inequality.
Paul Harris, The Observer UK. April 1, 2008. Despite the rise of a black middle class and Obama's run for president, the racial divide still exists -- especially for the urban underclass.
Rebecca Solnit, Orion Magazine. March 20, 2008. Answering that requires digging into American race and class wars, and into the broad crises of environmentalism.
Jesse Reynolds, AlterNet. January 18, 2008. Gregory Clark's book A Farewell to Alms suggests that race- and class-based inequality is inherent -- perhaps even deserved.
