Barbara Ehrenreich

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Hillary's Gift to Women

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted May 12, 2008 | Politics


Barbara Ehrenreich

In Friday's New York Times, Susan Faludi rejoiced over Hillary Clinton's destruction of the myth of female prissiness and innate moral superiority, hailing Clinton's "no-holds-barred pugnacity" and her media reputation as "nasty" and "ruthless." Future female presidential candidates will owe a lot to the race of 2008, Faludi wrote, "when...

Maureen Dowd: Obama Is No RFK

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted April 28, 2008 | Politics


Joseph A. Palermo

In her column in the New York Times yesterday, "Desperately Seeking Street Cred," Maureen Dowd focuses her Pulitzer-prize winning intellect like a laser beam directly on the forehead of Barack Obama, who in previous articles she deemed "Obambi." This time around Dowd claims that Obama's problem is that he...

Truckers Protest, the Resistance Begins

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted April 7, 2008 | Politics


Barbara Ehrenreich

Until the beginning of this month, Americans seemed to have nothing to say about their ongoing economic ruin except, "Hit me! Please, hit me again!" You can take my house, but let me mow the lawn for you one more time before you repossess. Take my job and I'll just...

Hillary's Nasty Pastorate

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted March 19, 2008 | Politics


Barbara Ehrenreich

There's a reason why Hillary Clinton has remained relatively silent during the flap over intemperate remarks by Barack Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. When it comes to unsavory religious affiliations, she's a lot more vulnerable than Obama.

You can find all about it in a widely under-read article in the...

World's Designated Shoppers Drop

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted March 10, 2008 | Business


Barbara Ehrenreich

How much lower can consumer spending go? The malls are like mausoleums, retail clerks are getting laid off, and AOL recently featured on its welcome page the story of man so cheap that he recycles his dental floss -- hanging it from a nail in his garage until it dries...

Stimulus Deal: The Banes of Bipartisanship

Robert L. Borosage | Posted January 25, 2008 | Politics


Robert L. Borosage

Barbara Ehrenreich memorably called the talk about the stimulus "clitoral economics." And that was before we got screwed.

The stimulus deal just announced is being praised more for its existence than its content. Much lamented partisan bickering was overcome; bipartisan cooperation that got it done. WIth Wall Street bankers...

Republican "Class Warfare"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted January 23, 2008 | Politics


Joseph A. Palermo

In his excellent new book, The Squandering of America: How the Failure of our Politics Undermines our Prosperity, Robert Kuttner writes:

"Between 2000 and 2006, the productivity of American workers increased by 19 percent. But the total increase in the wages paid to all 124 million non-supervisory workers was less...

Clitoral Economics

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted January 22, 2008 | Business


Barbara Ehrenreich

With all the talk about how to stimulate it, you'd think that the economy is a giant clitoris. Ben Bernanke may not employ this imagery, but the immediate challenge-and the issue bound to replace Iraq and immigration in the presidential race-is how best to get the economy engorged and throbbing...

Hillary's Real MLK Problem

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted January 15, 2008 | Politics


Barbara Ehrenreich

At first I took it as another, yawn, white rip-off of black culture and creativity: the Rolling Stones appropriating the Bo Diddley beat, Bo Derek sporting corn rows, and now Hillary giving Lyndon Baines Johnson credit for the voting rights act of 1965. If you had to give this honor...

Recession -- Who Cares?

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted January 9, 2008 | Politics


Barbara Ehrenreich

The soothsayers have slaughtered the ox and are examining the gloppy entrails for signs: Rising unemployment, a falling dollar, weak consumer spending, the credit crisis, a swooning stock market. Could there be something wrong here? Could we actually be approaching a, god forbid, recession?

To which the only sane response...

In Defense of Princesses

Trey Ellis | Posted December 18, 2007 | Entertainment


Trey Ellis

Princesses get a bad rap. I have been a huge fan of Barbara Ehrenreich for years but I think her recent post about princesses misses the point. I was raised in the 1970s by a child psychologist feminist mother and a child psychiatrist father. We were PC before...

Bonfire of the Princesses

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted December 11, 2007 | Living


Barbara Ehrenreich

Contrary to the rumors I have been trying to spread for some time, Disney Princess products are not contaminated with lead. More careful analysis shows that the entire product line -- books, DVD's, ball gowns, necklaces, toy cell phones, toothbrush holders, t-shirts, lunch boxes, backpacks, wallpaper, sheets, stickers, etc. --...

What's So Great about Gated Communities

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted December 3, 2007 | Politics


Barbara Ehrenreich

Another utopia seems to be biting the dust. The socialist kibbutzim of Israel have vanished or gone increasingly capitalist, and now the paranoid residential ideal represented by gated communities may be in serious trouble. Never exactly cool -- remember Jim Carrey in The Truman Show? -- these pricey enclaves of...

Roaches in the World's Most Expensive Dessert

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted November 19, 2007 | Politics


Barbara Ehrenreich

Can you spare a tear for the ultra-rich? One week after achieving the Guinness World Record for the world's most expensive dessert -- a $25,000 "Frozen Haute Chocolate" containing five grams of edible 23-karat gold -- the New York restaurant Serendipity 3 was shut down by the health department. It...

Gap Kids: New Frontiers in Child Abuse

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted October 31, 2007 | Business


Barbara Ehrenreich

It was enough to make you vomit all over your new denim jacket. The Gap has been caught using child labor in an Indian sweatshop, and not just child labor -- child slaves. As extensively reported on the news, the children, some as young as 10, were worked 16 hour...

Happy Fascism Awareness Week!

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted October 22, 2007 | Politics


Barbara Ehrenreich

I've never been able to explain Halloween to the kids, with its odd thematic confluence of pumpkins, candy, and death. But Halloween is a piece of pumpkin cake compared to Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, which commences today. In this special week, organized by conservative pundit David Horowitz, we have a veritable...


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