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Entries by Robert Kuttner from 02/2011

Business Doesn't Need American Workers

| Posted 02.06.2011 | Business
Read More: Jobs Crisis, Unemployment Rate, Economy, Free Trade, Jobs, Outsourcing, Deficit, Labor, Big Business, Unemployment, World Trade Organization, Jobs Creation, Corporations, Germany, 2010 Midterm Elections, Underemployment, Western Europe, Jacob Lew, China Economy, Obama Approval, Ge, Business News

America now has about 25 million people either out of work or underemployed. Meanwhile, corporate profits continue to set records. What's going on?

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From Depression to Public Inspiration

| Posted 02.13.2011 | Politics
Read More: Public Works, Boston, Depression, Dams, New Deal, 1929 Stock Market Crash, Bridges, Conservation, Gop, Franklin Roosevelt, Republican Party, Tennessee Valley Authority, Great Depression, Robert F. Kennedy, Politics News

Did you ever wonder why some of America's greatest public works projects were accomplished during its worst depression? President Obama has the right idea when he calls for major investment in 21st Century infrastructure.

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Gandhi in East Boston

| Posted 02.17.2011 | World
Read More: Albert Einstein Institution, Boston, Martin Luther King, Zimbabwe, Albania, Gene Sharp, New York Times, Gandhi, Susan B. Anthony, Pacifism, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Egyptian Revolution, World News

Of course Gene Sharp is a pacifist. Non-violent, passive resistance has been the whole point of his life's work. You might as well write that some people suspect Gandhi of being a pacifist.

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Wisconsin's Tunisia Moment

| Posted 02.20.2011 | Politics
Read More: Wisconsin, Wall Street, Egypt Revolution, Scott Walker, Economic Crisis, Madison Wisconsin, Warren Buffett, Beltway, Tea Party, Wisconsin Protests, Class Warfare, Wealthy, Economy, Labor Movement, Unemployment, Tunisia Protests, Protest, Tax Cuts, Republican Party, Politics News

The Republicans' miscalculation in Wisconsin was to declare war on the one bastion of organized economic representation of regular people -- the labor movement.

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The Left Edge of the Possible

| Posted 02.27.2011 | Politics
Read More: Left, Economy, Mortgage Crisis, Radicals, Housing Crisis, Recession, Austerity, Hamp, Unemployment, National Debt, Federal Budget Deficit, Bailout, Financial Crisis, Refinancing, Economic Recovery, Foreclosure, Public Investment, Healthcare, Politics News

We need to take back our politics, so that what is sensible is also possible. Maybe, just maybe, events in Madison and elsewhere are the beginning of that process.

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