Foolishly engaging in a short-sighted culture of thinking--only things that...
A Teacher of Latin Writes In Defense of Fiction « Diane Ravitch's blog Exploring fiction allows readers to imagine themselves as someone else. It teaches them about the world around them and what it...
View ArticleRebuilding our trust in reason and civic discourse.
Far too often of late I feel the solutions we (read: the politicans) are coming up with to fix problems and challenges we are facing as a society miss the point all together.When I look around I see a...
View ArticleThe Estate Tax & The Fiscal Cliff
Economic inequality is one of the fundamental challenges we face over the next few decades. A strong Estate Tax is an equitable way to make sure that wealth and power do not simply concentrate within...
View ArticleMore Than 200,000 have signed the petition for Paul Krugman to be the next...
Obama has plans to put in another Wall Street friendly Treasury Secretary---and its the last thing we need! There is still time to put the political pressure on and make your voice heard. Lets make...
View ArticleThe mark of a sentient human being....
"It is the mark of a sentient human being to learn from experience, to pay close attention to how theories work out when put into practice. What should we think of someone who never admits error,...
View ArticleHoward Zinn: A reinvigorated labor movement needed for social upheaval
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View Article#FollowFriday Having conversations that matter.
"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated...
View ArticleEverything We Know About Drone Strikes.
I had the privilege to sit down with some political activists from Yemen a few weeks back. I asked about the impacts of Obama's drone program and in very clear terms everyone said that the drone...
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Medicaid Eligibility in Georgia
Yesterday Governor Deal came out in opposition to expansion of Medicaid here in Georgia. Expansion of Medicaid was a key part of the health care reform law recently passed into law. But the Supreme...
View ArticleEven Rambo thinks we need an Assault Weapon's ban.
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View ArticleShop-floor organizing within the AFL-CIO to stop Republicans in Congress.
So I got an email from the AFL-CIO today (technically I got an email from "Rich" Trumka) that reads in part: We’re getting as many signatures from working families as we can—families who want to make...
View ArticleMarkets are social institutions--we built those profits together.
The collective nature of markets and their dependency on the state to even exist are vitally important facts to understand when discussing policy questions. Markets are social institutions that...
View ArticleJudicial conservatives as activist judges
In an obituary to Ronald Dworkin in The Guardian (Ronald Dworkin: a modern-day Mill ) I was struck by one point: Dworkin was ranged against those who conceive the judge as neutral referee with a...
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Organizing in the South | Jackson Free Press | Jackson, MS http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2013/feb/13/organizing-south/ Special Report: Class Struggle - How charter schools get students they...
View ArticleYour daily Epictetus
"Look for and come to understand your connections to other people. We properly locate ourselves within the cosmic scheme by recognizing our natural relations to one another and thereby identifying our...
View ArticleWe need better educated Representatives--why "ethics reform" is a Strawman.
I've always thought that the "ethics reform" bandwagon--especially in state politics--is at best a solution in search of a problem that doesn't exist; at worst, a Trojan horse to undermine...
View Article2.26.2013 The trucks won't load themselves #knowledgeIsPower
I'm headed to work. While I'm gone...here is some stuff I've been reading to keep you busy. Graph: How the Financial Sector Consumed America’s Economic Growth : Our Blog : Welcome to The Century...
View ArticleWage-Slavery, Republican Liberty, and Reining in Corporate Power
So I caught Wage-Slavery and Republican Liberty over at Jacobin Magazine and it got me to thinking about wage-slavery and what my coworkers might think of questions of liberty, freedom, and potentials...
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