Truthdig Columns

2012

05/10 Our Guns-and-Butter Economy

05/04 Property Rights in the Cloud

04/26 The Politics of Sight

04/20 Contradiction Where Religion and American Politics Meet

04/12 The End of ‘Shut Up and Play’

04/05 Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need New Roads

03/23 Charter Schools Are Not the Silver Bullet

03/15 The Layer Ploy

03/09 A Welcome Return to Basic Standards

03/01 The Opposite of Snobbery

02/24 Forgetting the Past, One Military Movie at a Time

02/17 Will We Choose a Chinese Future?

02/10 Embracing ‘Enough’

02/02 When It Comes to Education Technology, Trust—but Verify

01/26 The Economic Normalcy Bias

01/20 Ron Paul and Our Selective Definition of Bigotry

01/13 Education Reformers Send Their Kids to Private School

01/05 10 American ABCs We May Soon Forget

2011

12/22 ’Tis The Season of Fake Outrage

12/16 Banana Republicans’ Assault on Democracy

12/08 What Real Education Reform Looks Like

12/01 Celebrating the End of Kids’ Wall Street Dreams

11/20 Anger Sowing Seeds of a New Consumer Movement

11/11 Why Income Inequality Suddenly Matters

10/27 TV That Finally Lifts Journalism Back ‘Up’

10/21 The Choice Between Democracy and Autocracy

10/14 Government by Death Panel

10/06 Stopping the Insanity

09/29 How Baseball Explains Modern Racism

09/22 Two Heads of One Political Monster

09/15 University of Hypocrisy

09/08 10 Years Later, It’s Time to ‘Broaden the Context’

09/01 The Lesson of the Chinese Invasion

08/25 Race and the Church of Denialism

08/18 The Vegetarian’s Dilemma

08/12 Collateral Damage in the War on Anonymity

08/04 The Bizarro FDR

07/21 The Terrorist Threat We’re Ignoring

07/15 Toward a New Politics of Food

07/10 The Finland Phenomenon

07/01 Shining the Spotlight on the Corporate Pay Gap

06/17 Promoting Militarism While Hiding Bloodshed

06/09 America’s Energy Ethos: Do, Regardless of Harm

06/02 Cutting Kids’ Health Care Will Make Deficits Bigger

05/27 Time to Crack Down on Child-Focused Ads

05/19 Turning the Camera on the Police

05/12 Bin Laden Mission Evokes More Questions Than Answers

05/06 The High Cost of Cheap War

04/29 Why the Fat Guy Should Lose His Privilege

04/21 Beware of Vampire Squids and Their Stadium Schemes

04/14 Ikea Joins the Race to the Bottom

04/08 The Real Madness of March

04/01 Lessons of Libya

03/24 A New Red Dawn

03/18 Six Sadistic Proposals From State Government

03/11 The ’80s Origins of Today’s Anti-Muslim Bigotry

03/03 State Crises Mean New Language of Deceit

02/25 Two Public Pay Standards, One Statement of Values

02/18 The Submerged State

02/11 The Super Bowl of Socialism

02/04 With Democracy or Against It—There’s No In Between

01/28 From Quality to Quantity—and Maybe Back Again

01/21 Is America Too Corrupt to Keep Up?

01/14 Finding the Forgotten Majority

01/07 Washington Loves a Paradox

2010

12/31 A Snow-Filled Glimpse of America’s Future

12/24 Faces of Economic Death

12/17 Why the ‘Lazy Jobless’ Myth Persists

11/19 To Deter Crime, Get Tough on Wall Street

11/12 The High Cost of Low Prices

11/05 From Uprising to Hostile Takeover ... and Back Again

10/28 It’s the Stupidity, Stupid

10/22 The Tea Party Test Case

10/14 The Imperial Defense of Pentagon Bloat

10/07 Follow Wyoming on Fracking Regs

09/30 The Real Democratic Whiners

09/23 What the Pot Legalization Campaign Really Threatens

09/16 Synthetic Novelty Is Not Reality

09/09 The Neoliberal Bait and Switch

09/02 Despite Celebration, the Iraq War Continues

08/27 Lessons From a Low-Impact Week

08/19 Insanity Is Déjà Vu All Over Again

08/15 Elites’ Democratic Days Are Numbered

08/05 The Stadium-Mob Mentality

07/29 The Deception of Real-World Inception

07/08 Are Low Taxes Exacerbating the Recession?

07/01 A New Deregulatory Push in the Energy Heartland

06/25 After 41 Years, a Belated Victory for Butter

06/18 War for Resources: From Slander to Clarion Call

06/10 Putting the ‘I’ in Environment

06/03 From Shared Sacrifice to Hedonism

05/27 The Michael Jordan of Bailouts

05/20 Laying Bare the Myth of ‘The Left’

05/14 Blowback: Why They Try to Bomb Us

05/06 The Motto of Mad Men

04/29 Past Statements Tell Present Truth About Immigration Law’s Goals

04/22 Clinton’s Contrition

04/15 Journalism’s Parasites

04/08 What Are They Smoking in California?

04/01 These Devils Wear Privilege