January 2014

The Washington Post, Amazon and the CIA

Collective Bargaining and the Minimum Wage

True Patriotism in Action

Socialized Health Care in a Red State

President Frack-a-Lot

NAFTA at 20 Years

America’s Most Noble Creation

The American People and Support for War

U.S. Foreign Policy Is a Shambles

Why FDR Did Not End the Great Depression – and Why Obama Won’t End This One

James Woolsey Versus Edward Snowden

The Apocrypha of Bruce Springsteen

Aristo Fetishism in Downton Abbey

Fakethrough! GMOs and the Capitulation of Science Journalism

Dr. King’s Lessons for the Climate Justice Movement

The Tasks of the People-Powered Movement for 2014

Is New York’s New Mayor De Blasio Really a Lefty?

Is There No Cure for the IRS’s Perpetual Political Outrages?

How Google Became One of America’s Biggest Tax Dodgers

The War on Poverty at 50

Why History Makes Us Important

Concession Bargaining at the Crossroads

The Militarization of Foreign Policy

A Short History of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party

The Ruckus at Boeing: Round One Goes to Them

The Left After the Failure of Obamacare

Phil Robertson, St. Paul and the Problem of Christian Homophobia

Put a Stamp On It

The Harm Before the Storm in Iraq

Dissecting Fred Kaplan’s Hit Piece on Edward Snowden

What Can Mayor Blasio Do?

WikiLeaks: Conspiracy of Governance to the Courage to Inspire

The Case of John Kiriakou

Terror, Surveillance and the Winter Olympics

Not Your Mother’s Electrolux

Dealing With the Deluge

Obama, Mandela, King and the Paradox of Progress

Ani DiFranco, Slavery and the Subsidy of History

Patriotism: Signs of Saturation

Orwell on the Bench

The Story of Gaza

NSA in Your iPhone?

Nation’s Major Paper Now Says Snowden’s a Hero

Delegitimating Israel

Inequality of Wealth and the Role of Unions

A Soulless, Digitally Concussed Western World

Letter to George W. Bush

The US/India (Un)Diplomatic Farce

Phil Robertson’s Effective Lesson in Freedom

Nelson Mandela’s Legacy for Political Prisoners