Guantanamo on My Mind
There is nothing I like better than reading memoirs of converted commies who, just before pension saw the virtues of the system they once...
Valerie T May Soon Be Free to Tweet to Her Heart’s Content
The French satirical publication Le Canard Enchaine is not our Onion. Its articles, even when more wishful thinking than factual reports are the result...
KYT- Race, Class and the 2016 Presidential Election – Fighting the Clinton Machine
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a writer, public speaker and activist living in Philadelphia. She writes on Black politics, housing inequality and issues of race and...
Breaking News: Greece Cannot Publicly Start Killing Its People – No Matter How Old...
Everybody is afraid of Greece. What if Greece gives us another example in democracy and saves its people at the risk of imposing limits...
Nobody who works 40 hours a week should live in poverty
TPV agrees with Bernie Sanders: "Nobody who works 40 hours a week should live in poverty."
TPV only adds: Not Even #KanyeWest
Sign my petition if...
TPV and the New Public Intellectual
TPV loves irony as much as it loves ideas. While HAC at Bard College is not the White House, still TPV decided to be...
U.S.-Facilitated Security
Six days ago the Internet was abuzz with news about "our trumpeted success in persuading Pakistan to end its seven-month blockade of supplies for...
TPV May Not Be Able to Afford Its Staff – If Tips Would No...
The White House is trying hard to put TPV out of business. Jerome, and Marquel, and Calin, and Heath may soon strike and ask...
Movie Star Quality at Reality Star Prices
The new ad for Wódka Vodka claims to deliver "Movie Star Quality, Reality Star Pricing." I say Mazel Tov! and move on. But the...
Happy Monday, C.I.A.!
Happy Monday, CIA!
The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a major surveillance reform measure late last week:
By an overwhelming margin, the House passed the 2015 defense appropriation bill which, among...
Gitlin Introduces Bob Massie. Can Massie Make Massachusetts Great?
First published here - -http://billmoyers.com/story/bob-massie-visionary-candidate/
BY TODD GITLIN | MAY 19, 2017
The first time I heard Bob Massie’s forceful voice, it rang out unceremoniously, filling...
Shore’s Ku Klux Klowns
Zachary SHORE'S "The best way to fight white supremacists: Parody" was first published here- http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-shore-right-parody-20170824-story.html
Are so-called alt-right protesters coming to your town? Here’s the...
Of Gods, Charlie Hebdo and Tasseography
This past week, the satirical French newspaper, Charlie Hebdo, had its Paris office firebombed. Its website and Facebook page were also hacked and remain...
Warren’s hypothetical IMPERATIVE
Obama Calls Elizabeth Warren ‘Absolutely Wrong’ on Trade Deal, because, Marquel read the text, Obama thinks her criticisms are 'hypotheticals.' Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Hypointellectual Black...
