AUSTIN, Texas -- Budgets are the guts of government. That's where you find the answer to the first of the three important questions about who runs a society: Who's getting screwed? Who's doing the screwing? And what the hell will they do...
13 February 2005
A system glorifies its winners. The mass media and the rest of
corporate America are enthralled with professionals scaling career
ladders to new heights. Meanwhile, the people hanging onto bottom rungs
are scarcely blips on screens....
10 February 2005
AUSTIN, Texas -- I feel snakebite about praising any proposal by George W. Bush. Every time I write a column saying, "Look, he's done something good!" he does something else that makes it either not so good or just plain bad. He welched on...
10 February 2005
Since the 1950s, many young Americans have first encountered critiques
of mass media in the pages of Mad. With its intricate cartoons and satirical
sendups, the monthly magazine gained a reputation for skewering politicians,
advertisers,...
08 February 2005
AUSTIN, Texas -- Last week, The New York Times quoted a Harvard Law student who favors the privatization of Social Security as saying the accounts-formerly-known-as-private are "a no-brainer."
Funny, I'd say that pretty well...
Funny, I'd say that pretty well...
05 February 2005
Let's cut the actuarial doublespeak: Bush comes not to save Social Security, but to bury it.
Ever since Franklin Roosevelt installed the most successful social program in US history, far right fanatics of the Bush ilk have...
Ever since Franklin Roosevelt installed the most successful social program in US history, far right fanatics of the Bush ilk have...
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