Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigSep 6, 2015
Contrary to the perception pushed by officials and the dominant media, the refugees arriving on European shores constitute a small minority of the immigrants within and going to the European Union, writes Richard Seymour in the magazine Jacobin. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigAug 30, 2015
Authorities “demolished all of the city’s remaining traditional public housing … converted almost the entire public school system into charters, eliminated the teachers’ collective bargaining agreement” and oversaw “the permanent closure … of the public hospital dedicated to serving the poor,” writes Jay Arena in the magazine Jacobin. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigAug 1, 2015
What were “slavery, colonialism, Jim Crow, and urban apartheid if not extreme forms of economic inequality?” Seth Ackerman asks in the magazine Jacobin. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMay 25, 2015
“Clinton’s campaign staff is working overtime … to show how well she relates to ordinary Americans,” writes Elizabeth Schulte at Jacobin. “But the people whose opinions really matter in the presidential election know better.” Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigApr 12, 2015
TED talker and New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas and Vox cast doubt on the 99 percent concept, suggesting that 1-percenter “privilege” haunts quite a few of us. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMar 16, 2014
Brooklyn journalist Melissa Gira Grant is one of the voices who has emerged in the last few years to defend the rights and dignity of people working in all parts of the sex industry. As her new book hits the shelves, she tells The Guardian about moving from sex work into journalism. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigFeb 7, 2014
The cheap slogan, an alleged encouragement for today's worker, cruelly ignores the fact that very few of us have the opportunity to make a living doing much of anything that sustains our spirits, Miya Tokumitsu writes at Jacobin. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigJan 21, 2014
"There is probably no figure in recent American history whose memory is more distorted, whose message more bowdlerized, whose powerful words are more drained of content than King," University of Pennsylvania history professor Thomas J. Sugrue writes at Jacobin. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigOct 19, 2013
"The recent flurry of effort to decipher just who this right-wing is reproduces a persistent error in the progressive narrative: A failure to address the conservatism of Democrats and the chaos and passivity of the American Left," political science professor Alex Gourevitch writes at Jacobin. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigAug 8, 2013
Neoliberalism, the economic doctrine that favors zero government regulation of commerce and other activities, is giving American education to the corporations, and well-meaning but deluded liberals are complicit in the takeover, Lois Weiner writes at Jacobin. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
By Steve Fraser, TomDispatchJan 31, 2013
In 2013, you can’t actually be jailed for not paying your bills, but ingenious corporations, collection agencies, cops, courts and lawyers have devised ways to ensure that debt “delinquents” will end up in jail anyway. With one-third of the states now allowing the jailing of debtors (without necessarily calling it that), it looks ever more like a trend in the making. Dig deeper ( 18 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigJan 26, 2013
“For many in my generation, the ideological underpinnings of capitalism have been undermined,” writes Jacobin editor Bhaskar Sunkara at The Guardian. “That a higher percentage of Americans between the ages of 18 and 30 have a more favorable opinion of socialism than capitalism … signals that the cold war era conflation of socialism with Stalinism no longer holds sway.” Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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