As you’d expect, the corporate open letter on voting restriction is toothless
Performative more than productive. Continue Reading
Democracy
Is the Hillary Clinton waiting game actually good for democracy?
There’s basically two options here. None of them are really very good for the United States’ belief in themselves as a true democracy. Continue Reading
Let’s compare the 10 largest occupations in America in 1999 and 2013, shall we? (Pause for sigh.)
Before, we’ve talked about where jobs might be come 2022 — so eight years or so from now. But what’s happened to jobs in the past decade or so? Well, check out this chart, courtesy of Pew: Here’s the original… Continue Reading
How big a deal are the Koch Brothers and their dark money?
A couple of days ago in The Washington Post, they ran an article about the Koch Brothers’ impact on the 2012 elections. In short, it was about $400 million through various “dark money” groups that they work with (one of the… Continue Reading
Kshama Sawant, an avowed socialist, is now on the Seattle City Council
Kshama Sawant, a college professor and Occupy movement activist, is now a City Council member in Seattle. She’s definitely a rare socialist to hold American elected office (“Abama’s a socialist!!” — right wing talk radio), and one of the few Occupy… Continue Reading