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Video: McLiving Wages and Food Stamps
Column: How to Seem Racist: A Guide
It feels like this needs to be said: Pro-Zimmerman folks, when you celebrate the now decidedly legal shooting death of an unarmed adolescent, it’s ghoulish””and it makes you seem racist. Here’s why: Trayvon Martin was a kid. He didn’t have a criminal record””his killer did. Martin had a legitimate reason for being in that neighborhood… Continue reading
Column: Solitary Confinement and American Acceptionalism
In 2001, Abdullah Al Noaimi was a 19-year-old Bahraini traveling in Pakistan. Bounties were being offered for men who fit his description, which is why he ended up detained in a Pakistani jail. When he learned he’d be turned over to Americans, he told “This American Life” journalist Jack Hitt that he was relieved. “He… Continue reading
Video: Eliot Spitzer’s Attempted Political Comeback
Column: Southern Fried Christian Sharia
North Carolina state legislators introduced what was described as an anti-Sharia law bill this week. The concern was a religion would trump our laws””threaten our constitution. This religion, they fear, would dictate our rights and punish dissent. It would blur the lines between church and state! Women would be subjugated! This is such a threat… Continue reading
Video: Viewpoint on NYC’s Stop and Frisk Policy
Column: #StandWithNancy
On Wednesday, the highest court in the nation decided the Clinton-era Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was unconstitutional. The same day, they sent California’s Proposition 8 back to the lower court. The result? A minority of Americans will now enjoy basic rights with a partner of their choosing without being unjustly double-taxed. Most Americans’ lives… Continue reading
Column: Freedom of Too Much Information
We are all celebrities now. Ever since we won Time Magazine’s Person of the Year in 2006, the same year we first found out about the National Security Administration spying on us, we’ve all become essentially public figures. It’s the new equality: We are all stars! “Private citizen” is now akin to “paid volunteer”””a contradiction…. Continue reading
Video: Stephanie Miller on Bachmann Leaving Congress
Video: ‘Yes We Are Bread Winners But We Are Making Less’
Column: Bachmann’s Retirement Delivers a Death Blow to the 1850s
I attended a tea party event hosted by Congresswoman Michele Bachmann the day before the Republican National Convention in Florida last year. I observed the following: Wearing a tri-corner hat in proximity to the Caribbean makes you look like a pirate. Which pretty much sums up the tea party crowd: historically inaccurate, attached to the… Continue reading
Column: Apple Could Pay For Moore
Investigators say due to some creative Ireland-based tax gimmicks, Apple has managed to keep $75 billion away from the IRS’s reach just in the years 2009-2012. Even Senator John McCain conceded, “Apple claims to be the largest U.S. corporate taxpayer, but by sheer size and scale, it is also among America’s largest tax avoiders.” Apple… Continue reading
Video: Guns and the NRA
