By: Sam Esterman Bill Maher of HBO’s Real Time donated $1 million to the Obama Super PAC, Priorities USA Action, on February 23rd, 2012. Unexpected by Maher and his fellow pundits, the impact defied imagination. Maher is a comedian that hosts his show in Los Angeles, CA. He attends many Hollywood parties and voices liberalism for Hollywood celebrities and entertainment [...]
By: Edoardo Saravalle A series of intolerant newsletters have been plaguing Ron Paul’s campaign for most of his recent political career. The publications, with names like The Ron Paul Survival Report and The Ron Paul Investment Letter, first came to public attention during Paul’s 1996 Congressional campaign. His opponent Charles “Lefty” Morris divulged newsletters containing statements like “if you have [...]
By Alexia Nader Edited by Emily Kim The statistics of the U.S. Census Bureau’s new experimental poverty measure are staggering: 16% of the population in the country is living in poverty, about 2.5 million more people than we previously thought. The numbers in the new measure have changed from even two months ago, when the Official Poverty Measure was released, [...]
by Gregory Segal Art by Gabriella Kahn Texas Governor Rick Perry and Galileo. Despite the unequivocal differences between these two individuals, according to Perry, they aren’t so different. As Perry told the nation at the Republican presidential debate this September, “The idea that we would put Americans’ economy at jeopardy based on scientific theory that’s not settled yet, to me, [...]
Who controls our government? Whom does Congress represent? “The people!” we reflexively exclaim, for of course, our government is of, by, and for the people. But which people? Increasingly since the 1970s, a new answer has emerged: anyone but the centrists. Today, moderates can barely find any true representation in Congress. As the polarizing ideological gulf has widened, Congress has [...]
by Katherine Kelly Art by Kayla Fuchs As occupying places with populist vigor is now en vogue, the inclusion-exclusion issue framing is commonplace. “We are the 99%,” protestors shout, deliberately separating themselves from the elite top 1% wage earners in the country. However, this kind of rhetoric isn’t exclusive to the Occupy protests; political candidates across the ages have capitalized [...]
“Well, it could have been worse,” I thought as I scrolled through my matches with which the website had paired me. “Jon, Barack, and Mitt, eh?” ElectNext’s slogan, “like a dating site for voters,” was true to its word. Although as a start-up that only functions for national elections, www.electnext.com hopes to expand to state and local contests as well. [...]
Amid all of the lunatic showmanship about the budget and finances, the true struggle for America’s future lies in healthcare. As our GDP has grown and our population has aged, citizens have demanded more and better healthcare, which has driven an unsustainable increase in medical costs. Without commenting on the wisdom of the legislation, we know that the Patient Protection [...]
By: Nathan Emmons Edited by: Urja Mittal Strange things are afoot in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. To paraphrase “The Daily Show” correspondent Larry Wilmore, it would be something special for the first black president to be kicked out of the White House by the second one. After five months on the campaign trail, the lone black candidate [...]
Michelle Bachmann disgusts me. I’m sick of pretending otherwise. Perhaps it’s the fact that her husband runs two Christian counseling centers in Minnesota that attempt to “cure” homosexuality. Perhaps it’s the fact that she signed the “Marriage Vow” printed by a prominent conservative Iowa group called The Family Leader. It stated that slavery, while horrible, was cool because they at [...]
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