Peter Frase
Hostess Brands, maker of the Twinkie, announced its liquidation today. This provoked a wave of now-more-than-everism, as both liberals and conservatives rushed to use the company’s failure as a testament to their longstanding hobbyhorses.
To [...]
Max Ajl
Once again, Israel is carrying out a brutal counter-insurgency campaign against the Gaza Strip and its people. [...]
Doug Henwood
Rolling Jubilee (RJ) has certainly gotten a lot of attention in the few days since it was launched. An initiative [...]
Shawn Gude
In my new neighborhood, in Baltimore, “Occupy the Vote: Re-Elect Obama” signs still pepper the landscape. [...]
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Seth Ackerman
11.13.12
Dear Andrew,
One of the things Occupy has been criticized for—and I’ll admit, I’ve been one of the critics—is a lack of focus on strategy or organizing. The debt campaign seems like a real effort to grapple with those problems—to figure out how the movement can expand its numbers and strength so it might force some material changes to the social balance of power.
Jeremy Kessler
11.12.12
When the Affordable Care Act narrowly survived a Supreme Court challenge this summer, pundits focused on what the 5-4 decision might reveal about the Court’s shifting political balance. But as the President who brought us both the individual mandate and the disposition matrix fights for a second term, the Supreme Court’s decision looks less like a crystal ball than a cracked mirror, reflecting the contradictions of twentieth-century liberalism that twenty-first century politics struggle blindly to resolve.
Mike Elk
11.9.12
The massive AFL-CIO headquarters sits on 16th Street in Washington, D.C., only about 100 yards or so from the White House. Nicknamed “the Marble Palace” by labor journalists, the building contains several auditoriums and its own patio. Across its lobby stretches a giant two-story mural done in a socialist realist style, depicting laborers heroically at work.
Corey Robin
Remember when Melissa Harris-Perry claimed last year that white liberals were abandoning Obama because of their racism?
She didn’t cite any polls at the time. But now we have the definitive poll. And what does it tell us about the Harris-Perry thesis?
I couldn’t find exact data from yesterday’s election (the polls I’ve seen don’t do cross-tabulations by race and political ideology).
Eli Friedman
11.8.12
Few in the West are aware of the drama unfolding in today’s “epicenter of global labor unrest.
Corey Robin
11.7.12
In the conclusion to The Reactionary Mind, I claimed that conservatism was dead. I wrote that in the wake of the 2010 congressional election, at the height of the Tea Party euphoria, when just about everyone was saying the opposite.
Last night, a Harvard professor defeated a faux-populist. A coalition of blacks, Latinos, women, gays and lesbians, and white working class voters in Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin, defeated the most retrograde versions of homophobia, sexism, racism, and anti-intellectualism (notice I say only “the most retrograde”).
Corey Robin
11.6.12
Randy Barnett is one of the most brilliant legal theorists on the right today. He’s also a libertarian. Ever since I came across his work in the course of my research on Justice Scalia, I’ve been fascinated by him. No matter what you think of his politics, he’s always worth reading.
“I am as libertarian today as I was” in 1975, writes Barnett in today’s Wall Street Journal, when he attended his first Libertarian Party convention.
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