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  1. Trump’s Second Gilded Age: Overcoming the Rule of Billionaires and Militarists Trump Tower in Manhattan on Oct. 8, 2016. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
    12 Dec 2016 … This post was first published on CounterPunch. During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump made it clear that he liked the uneducated and that once he assumed the presidency, he would appoint a range of incompetent people to high-ranking positions that Continue reading
  2. Losing Hope in Detroit
    5 May 2013 … Despite the 'get Americans back to work' rhetoric in Washington, job-training programs in Michigan are being squeezed by sequestration. Continue reading
  3. Voters Gave Corporate Education “Reform” a Big Defeat on Election Day
    11 Nov 2013 … Bridgeport is a microcosm of education policy battles taking place across the country Continue reading
  4. Memo to Hillary Clinton: How to DOUBLE Social Security Some House Democrats have begun pushing to provide the Social Security program with more funding. (Photo by Allison Shelley/Getty Images)
    7 Jul 2016 … My proposed plan for Social Security Plus would form the core of a new kind of deal for American workers. Making our retirement system more fair, innovative and stable will vastly improve everyday Americans’ lives. It also will put the national Continue reading
  5. How the Government Subsidizes Inequality
    9 Sep 2013 … A new study by Demos recommends capping executive pay as a requirement for government contracts to cut down on income inequality. Continue reading
  6. Where Free Speech Ends, Ignorance Begins Middlebury College students protest speaker Charles Murray. (Photo by Todd Balfour)
    3 Mar 2017 … At the risk of sounding like a geezer complaining about “these kids today,” back in my college days, when it came to points of view we were unhesitatingly exposed to literature, teachers and on-campus speakers covering the ideological waterfront. In Continue reading
  7. Kiss Goldman Sachs Goodbye
    11 Nov 2012 … The author is waiting for President Obama to focus on people who are struggling to get by and to bail out his real constituency. Continue reading
  8. Freedom to Teach? Academic Freedom Post-9/11 Freedom to teach
    2 Feb 2002 … This episode of NOW questioned whether there any areas of opinion that should be off-limits in the classroom, and considered how people of differing faiths could communicate better. Continue reading
  9. Democratic Direction and Swing State Politics Sarah Palin RNC 08
    8 Aug 2008 … Bill Moyers sits down with Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Adolph Reed Jr. to discuss the promises from the DNC and expectations of Barack Obama. Moyers also speaks with political analysts Merle and Continue reading
  10. An Oasis in a Food Desert
    10 Oct 2013 … Take a look inside America’s first nonprofit grocery store, which is bringing fresh food to a struggling community in Pennsylvania. Continue reading