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Friday, September 19, 2014

Success of People’s Climate Change March depends on how media covers it

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By Marc Jampole  Like many of my friends, I’m excited about marching in the People’s Climate Change March this Sunday in New York City....
Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Photograph shows what American political spectrum would look like without right wing—and what it was 50 years ago

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By Marc Jampole  The 16th century Venetian painter Paolo Veronese might have painted a photograph in the New York Times , so rich it is...
Saturday, September 13, 2014

Editorial: Don’t Bite Terrorist Bait

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One of the favorite words Republicans use to describe President Obama’s foreign policy is “feckless,” as if his refusal to rush US military...

Selections from the October 1, 2014 issue

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COVER/Thomas Frank The 1 Percent’s long con EDITORIAL Don’t bite terrorist bait LETTERS TO THE EDITOR JOEL D. JOSEPH Shame on Ra...
Friday, September 12, 2014

Obama has other ways to address the ISIS threat than going to war

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By Marc Jampole  President Obama has decided that there is only one way to respond to ISIS, a pan-Islamic military organization that no...

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Art by Kevin Kreneck
Thursday, September 11, 2014

When will economists & pundits stop telling lie that education will cure inequality of income?

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By Marc Jampole Eduardo Porter of the New York Times is the latest journalist to advocate that the way to narrow the gap between what t...
Friday, September 5, 2014

A cornucopia of shlock: 72 pages of gifts related to White House you can buy from 2014 White House catalog

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By Marc Jampole  Two years ago I noted that it was September 28 when the first Christmas catalog arrived in my mail box. This year the ...
Thursday, September 4, 2014

Progressives all over the country should Reach Out for Teachout!

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When I analyzed the long-shot possibilities of progressive Zephyr Teachout winning the Democratic primary for New York governor a few days ...
Tuesday, September 2, 2014

The lesson from LA’s decaying infrastructure is that tax rates are too low

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The front page of today’s New York Times tells the sad story of Los Angeles’ crumbling infrastructure .  Roadways, sidewalks and water pip...
Saturday, August 30, 2014

Editorial: Throw Out Oligarchs

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Researchers recently calculated how America’s political system has transformed from a democracy into an oligarchy, where wealthy elites wiel...

Selections from the September 15, 2014 issue

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COVER/Paul Rosenberg White power won’t give in EDITORIAL Throw out the oligarchs; Honest numbers LETTERS TO THE EDITOR  DON ROLLINS...
Monday, August 25, 2014

To New York progressives: Vote for Teachout in primary!

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By Marc Jampole  New York State could serve as a model of how progressives can move the right-of-Eisenhower Democratic Party back towar...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

America can learn a lot from the Ferguson situation, that is, if we’re willing to

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By Marc Jampole  The American public is relearning many lessons from the events in Ferguson following the shooting of an unarmed teenag...
Saturday, August 16, 2014

Editorial: Still Cleaning Up After W

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President Obama has sensibly resisted attempts to draw him into the civil war in Syria and to militarize confrontations with Iran and Russi...

Selections from the September 1, 2014 issue

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COVER/Raul A. Reyes GOP votes to deport as many kids as possible EDITORIAL Still cleaning up after W; Challenge Hillary LETTERS TO THE...
Friday, August 15, 2014

The world gets a tutorial on how to create wall-to-wall media coverage of the death of a celebrity

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By Marc Jampole The recent deaths of two well-known actors, Robin Williams and Lauren Bacall, dominated the news media this week, but in ...