Note to the Tax-Slashers:
We Are Already Serfs
As debt doomsday nears, it’s time to look at how tax breaks for the rich are breaking the economy.
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Note to the Tax-Slashers:
Why Liberal Religious Arguments Fail
From handing Paul Ryan a marked-up Bible, to a “must-see” video challenging conservative embrace of both Ayn Rand and Jesus, efforts to turn the Republican Party’s ostentatious religious posture against it miss the point.
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Prophets of the Environmental Apocalypse
Twilight wars in the Middle East, Japan’s nuclear catastrophe, Deepwater Horizon, worldwide crop failures, massive die-offs of long-established species: it’s all so very scary.
Read MoreBlank Sabbath: Sens. Sponsor Bill to Curb Wage Theft
A “Judeo-Christian” nation should know that screwing workers is totally abhorrent to the God of the bible.
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Supreme Court OKs State Funding Scheme for Religious Schools and Bars Challenges
Rejecting forty-three years of legal precedent the court voted 5-4 to devote public money to religious institutions. Justice Kennedy wins the 2011 Tortured Judicial Casuistry Award for his remarks.
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Will the Religious Side with Workers?
At this moment the embattled US labor movement urgently needs strong community-based allies and much greater moral legitimation, yet broad-based strategic and moral support from the religious side has been slow to materialize.
Read MoreScott Walker Loves Jesus. That’s Nice
And the violent bear it away.
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Why Can’t We Take Death Seriously? The Obama Administration’s Latest Retreat
The truth is that the administration simply caved before the still potent specter of so-called “Death Panels”—a specter created last year by the likes of Sarah Palin, John Boehner, and other disingenuous opponents of health care reform. Let’s just say that in this new year, Team Obama is worried to death (pardon the expression) about defending its signature health care law from further assaults from the newly-emboldened Republicans.
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A Matter of Life and Debt: The Role of Religion
Just about all of the issues that we religious folk insist we really care about—issues like world poverty and hunger, resource wars and environmental degradation, human trafficking, widening domestic inequality, shrinking access to quality higher education, declining on-time graduation rates for low-income students and students of color, urban neighborhood blight, stress-related health problems, declining family life and domestic violence—are directly related to systemic debt oppression.
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Pox Americana: Franzen’s Tragic Vision
There is nothing small-bore or contemptible about a novel that explores the wonder and heartbreak of romantic love against the distant thunder of imperial warfare.
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