Picture this. Normal, IL, 1988. While walking my dog, I stopped to chat with a neighbor. When I told her I was moving to
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Corporate advertising on the school bus and in your kid’s backpack
Here’s a riddle: What’s big, bright, and yellow, rides on four wheels, and markets junk food to kids five days a week? If you
A healthy dose of good government: Flu shots at the pharmacy
One afternoon last week, I walked into the pharmacy in my local supermarket. Twenty minutes later, I left after receiving a needle’s worth of
Corporate pork: the secret ingredient in the fiscal-cliff recipe
Once upon a time, a President or Congressional leader trying to get a bill passed would use earmarks—also known as “pork”—to buy votes from
You may have to say goodbye to free online news
Many of us have become accustomed to, perhaps spoiled by, the presence of free news on the internet. This is particularly so when the
Obama sees the poor as well as the middle class
Shortly after assuming the presidency following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson announced his commitment to a war on poverty. That
5 plutocracy-busting ideas from America’s progressive history
The biggest difference between today’s super-rich capitalists and the robber barons [a much more descriptive term] of a hundred years ago appears to be
CEO tells employees: Defeat Obama or lose your job
David Siegel, CEO of Florida’s Westgate Resorts, to employees: “I will cut off your nose to spite Obama’s face because I got mine. If
Poor Leon Cooperman, Chapter 2
Things just don’t seem to be getting much better for poor Leon Cooperman, about whom I have previously written on Occasional Planet. He still
Banks should make old-fashioned loans
Perhaps our banking crisis can be solved in part by borrowing a technique from the Affordable Health Care Act. The AHCA requires that all