Jamison Foser, Media Matters for America. October 19, 2009. When Limbaugh, Beck and Fox news are treated like legitimate players, it causes the rest of the media to run to the right.
Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. October 16, 2009. The top 1 percent owns more wealth then the bottom 90 percent. CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.
Allison Kilkenny, True/Slant. September 18, 2009. As much as white Americans hate to admit it, race issues are always in play, whether we're talking about unequal health care access or Limbaugh's latest rant.
William Greider, The Nation. August 19, 2009. After a brilliant beginning, Obama seems to be abandoning his principles on health care by hedging on a public option.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. July 29, 2009. If we let these powerful interests get their way, we'll see more outlandish increases in premiums and millions more people being denied care.
Theresa Amato, The New Press. July 7, 2009. Third-party candidates are effectively shut out of the presidential race by the two major parties designed to squash the competition.
Robert Jensen, Soft Skull Press. July 3, 2009. To imagine a just and sustainable world, we need not just a politics but a theology that can help us face our delusional arrogance.
David Rosen, CounterPunch. June 29, 2009. Last week, Gov. Mark Sanford participated in one of the oldest social rituals in American history: public shaming of the moral hypocrite.
Nancy Maclean, Boston Review. June 13, 2009. Might the nation's churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples again have a role in rescuing a wayward economy?
David L. Ostendorf, Imagine 2050. June 12, 2009. The bill rekindles the fervor for dismantling a cornerstone of rights won by African Americans in the post-Civil War era.
Seth Hoy, Immigration Impact. June 9, 2009. A new poll shows that 71 percent of likely voters think undocumented immigrants should take steps to become legal taxpayers.
Mae M. Ngai, Boston Review. May 27, 2009. The longer migrants stay in the United States, the stronger their moral claim to remain. So why do we keep kicking them out?