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Donald Trump and the Plague of Atomization in a Neoliberal Age
8 Aug 2016 … Donald Trump lowered the bar even further by attacking the Muslim parents of US Army Captain Humayan Khan, who was killed in 2004 by a suicide bomber while he was trying to save the lives of the men in his Continue reading -
America is Not a Post-Racial Society
6 Jun 2013 … The Court went outrageously wrong in assuming we have become a post-racial America that no longer needs to be bound by the legal protections that have preserved the electoral process for nearly a half-century. Indeed, discrimination still happens, and it’s Continue reading -
A Historian Speaks to the Current Moment
3 Mar 2020 … It is time, fellow Americans, to remember the warning of the great journalist Edward R. Murrow: “A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.” Let us together become the coalition of generations that closes the gates to the Continue reading -
Years of Living Dangerously Returns To Television Sunday
10 Oct 2016 … Though inadequate to save the planet, the Paris agreement was a major milestone, driven in part by President Obama’s willingness to take some initial action to confront this looming threat. Yet the topic of climate change hardly came up in Continue reading -
I’m Proud My Mother Was Arrested Fighting Extremism in North Carolina
2 Feb 2014 … 80,000 marched in North Carolina to push back against the conservative agenda, the largest protest in the South since Selma in 1965. Continue reading -
Capitol Crimes
9 Sep 2006 … Untangling the web of political corruption that continues even after the fall of Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff. Continue reading -
These Cities Might Just Save the Country
7 Jul 2017 … Ever since the early hours of Nov. 9, 2016, an old English word with Greek roots has been seeping back into circulation. The word, kakistocracy, means “a government by the worst people,” and it has struck such a resonant chord Continue reading -
Bill Moyers talks with David Berg and Daryl Bristow about Trump’s Lawsuits
11 Nov 2020 … President Trump still will not admit he lost. Trump has flooded the courts with lawsuits. Here to assess what’s going on are two of the country’s most experienced lawyers in election litigation. Daryl Bristow worked for George W. Bush’s legal team Continue reading -
This Election’s Teaching Our Kids Bad Habits
4 Apr 2016 … On the day before Easter, PEZ Candy USA had to cancel its annual egg hunt in Orange, Connecticut. Adults rushed the fields where the eggs and candy had been put out, pushing aside and trampling the little ones in a Continue reading -
Faith-Based Initiatives and the Vanguard Group’s John Bogle on Corporate Reform
10 Oct 2003 … The possible hidden agendas of some faith-based charities, a discussion of corporate reform with the founder of Vanguard Group, and writer John Ridley on the intersection of politics and entertainment. Continue reading
