Mike Konczal Has Not Heard of Karl Marx. Picketty Has. They Used to Be...
Mike Konczal recently reviewed the newest trendy book in economics, Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century, for the Boston Review. Konczal succeeded the impossible task...
Pope Francis, Could You Be a Rock Star?
We live in the greatest crisis of our lifetime, but we do not care because the obscenely rich take care of our souls. ...
Todd Gitlin’s Management of Unleashed Insanity
The Management of Unleashed Insanity
Trump perfects the role of Propagandist-in-Chief.
BY TODD GITLIN | MARCH 16, 2017
The Management of Unleashed Insanity
President Richard Nixon during a...
If only Hillary Could Do It
The picture shows Vanja Hadzovic, a 27-year-old adviser in Serbia’s Foreign Ministry. Like Bill, TPV wished it were Hillary. It ain't. The gorgeous Hadzovic, 27,...
Of Stolen Lives and Valor
With delight I was reading about the United States Supreme Court and the Stolen Valor Statute, which criminalizes lies about having received war medals....
De Gustibus
America’s future is becoming Amy Winehouse’s. SNL’s Seth Meyers would probably say, “Really?”. Really.
With one caveat. We are not interested in leaving any mourners...
The next president of Syria – email from a TPV reader
What I heard is Obama told McCain they were looking for a President and had great respect for old people.
We know from his...
Views of Our Pothole Democracy
People like me learned about the existence of former U.S. Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) in 2007, when Jon Stewart told the story of the...
Una cuba libre con un toque de limón por favor
First came the handshake and then this. At this pace, if Obama would be re-elected five more times, the US would have the same...
Kate’s Bare Breasts or the Prophet Muhammad’s je ne sais quoi? Why Not Both?
Amid continuing protests by Muslims around the globe over a controversial anti-Islam film made by an Egyptian Coptic Christian, and more protests to come because...
Net Neutrality for Dummies
Net Neutrality is the new "Occupy Wall Street" short-lived movement of the day: few understand or care about, in part because it has no...
NY for True Democrats: Teachout-Wu
Dear Readers:
Never has $1 meant so much as today! Contribute to Teachout-Wu to send a message to Albany that sellouts need to move out of...
Hillary Not for President? It’s “None of Your Business”
According to Huma, one of her protégées and Anthony Weiner's wife of record, Hillary just disqualified herself from running as a female presidential candidate....
