For over one hundred years, the African-American middle class has
largely supported what I call "liberal integrationism," the organized attempt
to assimilate into the U.S. mainstream to achieve a "color blind"
society.
The contemporary black reparations movement, the demand for compensation to African Americans due to centuries of unpaid labor exploitation under slavery, segregation, and ghettoization, has grown remarkably in recent years. On November 7...
When did the great executive stock option hog wallow
really
start? You can go back to the deregulatory push under Carter in
the late
Seventies, then move into the Reagan Eighties, when corporate
purchases of
shares really took...
We've arrived at the 30-year
milestone of Watergate, though
calling it an anniversary is a bit too celebratory for me. Watergate started as a bungled break-in but became a symbol of abuse of presidential powers: break-ins, wiretapping...
Authorities tell us that the world changed on September 11. As a result, university
professors must watch what they say in class or be turned in to the "speech" police. Elected officials must censor themselves or be censured by the...
Even while the U.S. Congress votes to
give its power over to the President
to regulate international trade and commerce (via the "Fast Track" vote), citizens across the nation and the world are building the broad-based agenda by which...