It is characteristic of the narrow, business-dominated nature of U.S. political culture that the current American health policy debate includes no meaningful discussion of the…
*Opening comments in a debate with John K. Wilson, a former Barack Obama student and author of the book President Barack Obama:…
I will debate a liberal (and fellow Paradigm Publishers) author on the Obama phenomenon/presidency….Come on down if you are in or around…
The persistent, deeply entrenched, and often all-too hidden power of racism in American life needs to be acknowledged [1] and acted upon…
Nice Krugman column in New York Times today (pasted in below below). I remain miltiantlly pro-single-payer (pro- HR 676) and otherwise to…
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā There are few things quite as depressing as the chasm between public opinion and not-so public…
"OBAMA MIGHT BE JUST ANOTHER CORPORATIST" Let history record that on August 9, 2009 Sunday New York Times columnist Frank Rich toyed…
The United States’ "representative democracy," crippled by "too much [corporate and military] representation and too little [actual popular] democracy" (Arundhati Roy) abounds…
Good Times for Happy and Affluent White Folks The current recession does not weigh very heavily on Iowa City in Johnson County,…
How mind-bogglingly pathetic is this (see linked story on drug industry’s advance deal with corporate regime Democrats Barack Obama and Max Baucus)?…
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