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Sara Robinson to Progressives: Looking Good!
The Millennial Generation: the future face of progressivism?Progressives have a chance to dominate American politics for the next 40 years The tides of history and demographics, and the way the world works are on our side. By Sara Robinson / … Continue reading
Prison Reform : We Must Stop Locking Up our Problems
Prisons are a necessary part of a civilized country, but they should be reserved for violent criminals and career criminals — people who have proven they cannot be trusted with the safety or property of others. By Ted McLaughlin / … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Congress, Criminal Justice, Prison Reform
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Only In America: The Rebecca Rubin Doll
One Rebecca Rubin has an FBI wanted poster and the other comes with toy challah bread. Newly Marketed ‘American Girl’ Doll Accidently Named After Alleged Eco-TerroristBy Tara Lohan / June 2, 2009 Apparently hoping to expand their marketing reach, Mattel … Continue reading
Capable of Learning Nothing from Almost Any Experience
Graceful Reprieve – art by William O’Connor.Happy Days: ReprieveBy Tim Kreider / June 2, 2009 Fourteen years ago I was stabbed in the throat. This is kind of a long story and it’s not the point of this essay. The … Continue reading
Report : Americans Now Support Progressive Ideas
“Public Opinion,” mixed media by Andrey Benyei.The results are in: Americans are now more closely aligned with progressive ideas than at any time in memory By Joshua Holland / May 30, 2009. On issue after substantive issue, significant majorities of … Continue reading
Larry Ray : Facing Extinction? Grand Old Party Blues
(Only slightly defaced) Mad Hatter Tea Party Engraving by Sir John Tenniel. Senior Republican Senator Arlen Specter’s recent defection from the GOP to the Democratic Party has caused an uproar in the toxic hard-core of the remaining Republican party. But … Continue reading
BOOKS / ‘Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in America’
What I found striking in this volume is the extent to which advances in behavioral science and pedagogical experience have played almost no role in the evolution of corrections: Sentencing policies and prison conditions stem from basic, often religious and … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Books, History, Incarceration, Prison Reform, Prisons
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Religious Right Concedes Defeat!
‘Armageddon for the Religious Right.’ Art by Matthew Bors / Orlando Weekly. America’s religious Right has conceded that the election of US President Barack Obama has sealed its defeat in the cultural war with permissiveness and secularism. By Alex Spillius … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Evangelical Christians, Obama Presidency, Religious Right
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We Suffer Under a Mass National Hallucination
Zombie Apocafest 2008. This is “Best Zombified Building” forPaul Hetherington’s “Casa Baron.” Photo: Source.Escape from the Zombie Food CourtBy Joe Bageant / April 3, 2009 [Joe Bageant recently spoke at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University at Lexington, … Continue reading
A Cuban Revolutionary and a Cuban Exile Reunite
Coqui Salazar. Photo by Michael D. Nolan / The Rag Blog.Dos Hermanos – Reunifying Two Cuban BrothersBy Michael D. Nolan / The Rag Blog / April 4, 2009 Toward the end of our week in Havana, Coqui took us on … Continue reading
I Only Read the First 140 Characters. I’m Posting This on My Facebook Wall. Snob.
Nit-twits!! If You Twitter, You May Be a TwitBy Dorian Snow / April 1, 2009 I have an aversion to blogging about my personal life on public websites. I just don’t think I’m that interesting. And it gives me the … Continue reading
