Frightening piece by David Glenn Cox, and in one very important respect I think he’s absolutely correct:
When you overlay a 1930’s style depression on our current society you begin to see just how important the New Deal was. It cooled tempers and gave hope to the poor. Today, however, the New Deal was issued to […]

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So Chicago - like many American cities - suffers from appalling instances of black-on-black violence, Drudge falls over himself to link it, the insinuation being that hey - Obama is from Chicago, and Chicago wants to host the Olympics and black people are killing each other in Chicago and this is all Obama’s fault! Or something.
This would be Glenn […]

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Barbara Ehrernreich’s been writing a series of essays in the NYT looking at what it’s like to be poor in American. Like this:
Take the case of Kristen and Joe Parente, Delaware residents who had always imagined that people turned to government for help only if “they didn’t want to work.” Their troubles began well before the […]

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Something your averaged OUTRAGED!!! conservative should read:
Poverty 101: We’ll start with the basics.
Like food: You don’t have a car to get to a supermarket, much less to Costco or Trader Joe’s, where the middle class goes to save money. You don’t have three hours to take the bus. So you buy groceries at the corner […]

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