Progressives are too easily taken in by talk of climate change and capitalism.
Adele M. Stan
Adele M. Stan is a columnist for The American Prospect. She is editor of Right Wing Watch, and a winner of the Hillman Prize for Opinion & Analysis Journalism.
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Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Andrew Jackson’s Dark Legacy Belongs to All of Us — Democrat and Republican Alike
Go ahead, purge the seventh president from currency and celebrations. But shoving his legacy off on opponents is not the answer.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Removing the Confederate Flag is Easy. Fixing Racism is Hard.
Progressives risk being a bit too smug in the aftermath of the Charleston massacre.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
How the Presidential Primary Is a Proxy War Between the Kochs and the Republican Establishment
Is Reince Priebus democracy’s last best hope?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Scott Walker’s Shady Deals Win Him Campaign Cash From Billionaires
The dark money web behind Walker’s ascendance.
Posted inAmerica and the World
The Limits of Rand Paul’s Constitutional Convictions
Posing as defender of the Bill of Rights, the presidential hopeful steers clear of grandstanding on popular measures he deems unconstitutional.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
North Charleston Murder Stems from American Tradition
Posted by guest-blogger Adele M. Stan An unarmed man shot in the back. An innocent man released after serving 30 years on death row. The centennial of Billie Holiday’s birth. These are the stories that emanated from my radio yesterday, and all bear a common thread: the devaluing of black life. The biggest news, of […]
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Rand Paul’s Millennial Quest: A Little Libertarian, A Lot of Something Else
Win or lose, the neo-libertarian stands to change the DNA of the Grand Old Party.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
How the Koch Brothers Helped Bring About the Law That Shut Texas Abortion Clinics
It may be a panel of judges that shut most Texas abortion clinics, but the law the court upheld began with a flood of money to antiabortion forces from the billionaires’ network of “free enterprise” groups.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
A Question of Character: Craig Shirley’s Scurrilous Attack on Liberal Historian Rick Perlstein
An assault on the character of a progressive intellectual invites an assessment of the attacker’s character—not to mention his client list.
