What the Paulites Have Right What the Paulites Have Right
(1) There is nothing sacred about the Fed(2) Power is overly centralized in the Executive branch and thefederal government(3) Power is overly concentrated in agencies that are not ...
Apr 13, 2009 / Zephyr Teachout
New Way Forward? New Way Forward?
Chris is keen on A New Way Forward and Zephyr wrote about the group here. I had a chance to talk with Kyle Krahel-Frolan a New Way Forward organizer when he was on a GRITtv panel ...
Apr 13, 2009 / Laura Flanders
The Viability of Protest Politics The Viability of Protest Politics
I liked Richard's treatment of the New School occupation. I'm not sure what is in me, or our culture, or the generational attitudes of post-baby booms progressives, but I have a vi...
Apr 13, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Caught: Ian Tomlinson Assaulted by UK Police Caught: Ian Tomlinson Assaulted by UK Police
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes --who will watch the watchmen? We will, it turns out, with cell phones and digital cameras, with Flickr, YouTube, Indymedia and, on this occasion, som...
Apr 12, 2009 / Maria Margaronis
“Occupy Everything Right Now” “Occupy Everything Right Now”
So said one of the signs at the student occupation of the New School's building at 65 Fifth Avenue, which was met with a phalanx of NYC cops, pepper spray and mass arrests at the r...
Apr 10, 2009 / Richard Kim
Nationalize, Reorganize, Decentralize Nationalize, Reorganize, Decentralize
Two days ago I wrote about introducing a new kind of scale-based antitrust. Before exploring some other structural reforms, I want to encourage people to join a nationwide demonstr...
Apr 9, 2009 / Zephyr Teachout
Lesson from Vermont: Don’t Cower, Push. Lesson from Vermont: Don’t Cower, Push.
They did it. On Tuesday the Vermont legislature formally recognized that civil unions are not the same as marriage. Forgive me for saying it, but I think the Vermonters h...
Apr 9, 2009 / Laura Flanders
Debunking Cheney Debunking Cheney
Dick Cheney's insistence that President Obama has made America less safe by defining waterboarding as torture and making CIA interrogators abide by the US Army Field Manual has pro...
Apr 8, 2009 / Eyal Press
Trustbusting 2.0? Trustbusting 2.0?
As a friend of mine said to me last week, it seems the economic team advising Obama has an unfortunately limited imagination. This limitedimagination leads to a limited range of ki...
Apr 7, 2009 / Zephyr Teachout
U.S. Racial Exports U.S. Racial Exports
Here in Cape Town I have had to confront the global reach of U.S. black cultural exportation. I have heard the following statements from black South Africans: "Racism seems ...
Apr 7, 2009 / Melissa Harris-Perry