NY for True Democrats: Teachout-Wu
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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...
America Does Not Need an Arab Spring, Mr. Friedman. It Needs a Leader.
Yesterday, the often mistaken Thomas L. Friedman of New York Times raised an interesting question “Does America need an Arab Spring?” True to himself,...
Who Needs Poison When You Can Tweet?
With one 137-character tweet, Valerie Trierweiler, 48, the French First Lady, proved to be an amazing Lady Macbeth: She got rid of her predecessor,...
Obama Has Become What He Thinks and It Ain’t Pretty
I did not think I would have to come out against a particular presidential candidate. But it just happened. As the founder of Buddhism, Prince...
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...
All I Want for Christmas Is… a Revolution
It’s Christmas time and nothing would stave off the cold and unemployment better than a revolution. Lenin gave history one of its most famous...
Giuliani Out of Presidential Race—Unsure of Lunch Plans
Oct 11 (Reuters) - Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said on Tuesday he will not enter the race for the Republican nomination to run...
The Genius of Herman Cain (ruined by a Ben Stiller movie)
The Republican primary season (can something that lasts 18 months be considered a season?) is nothing if not entertaining. Trump's self-proclaimed victory over Obama...
Urination, Shame, and Videotapes – Not a Miramax Release
If only from civics 101, Americans should know that peeing on corpses is not nice. I doubt that when the colonists fought the Native...
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,...
Todd Gitlin’s Bad Trump, Good Trump
Bad Trump, Good Trump
March 1, 2017 by Todd Gitlin
This post first appeared on BillMoyers.com.
It seems that all Donald Trump must do to win friends...
Don’t Know Much About History: Lessons in Presidential (and would-be presidential) Situational Ethics, Plus...
To paraphrase the eminent Ms. Palin (ignoring for the moment that most of the time she sounds as if she's having difficulty paraphrasing herself),...
