Michael Graetz’s new book explains how clever marketing duped America into shoveling more tax breaks to the wealthy and corporations.
Race & Ethnicity
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‘Stay Strapped or Get Clapped’
How the media misses the story of companies seeking profit by keeping traumatized veterans armed and enraged
Posted inEconomic Policy
How the Welfare State Fails the Poor
A bureaucratic paper chase undermines compassion and practical help for the needy, while Wall Street gets whatever it wants. It doesn’t have to be that way.
Posted inEducation in America
New York City’s Last Dictatorship
After 20 years, New York reconsiders mayoral control of its education system.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Spectacle of Policing
‘Swatting’ innocent people is the latest incarnation of the decades-long gestation of an infrastructure of fear.
Posted inTAP
Does the Road to Peace Lead Through Michigan?
Today on TAP: Tuesday’s wake-up call should lead Biden to change U.S. policy on Israel-Gaza.
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Uncommitted Campaign in Michigan Uses the Power of the Vote
Anti-war activists want to channel the pain of Arab American and Muslim communities to register a vote of no confidence in Biden’s support for Israel’s devastation of Gaza.
Posted inAmerica and the World
The Neglected History of the State of Israel
The Revisionist faction of Zionism that ended up triumphing adhered to literal fascist doctrines and traditions.
Posted inBooks
It’s the Working Class, Stupid
John Judis and Ruy Teixeira want Democrats to focus on working-class interests and back off cultural radicalism.
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100 Years Ago Today: Savage Nativism. And ‘Rhapsody in Blue.’
On the bigotry and diversity inherent in the world’s foremost nation of immigrants