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Echoes of a Distant Crash

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ronald Reagan, Public Option, Black Tuesday, 1929 Stock Market Crash, Franklin Roosevelt, Tva, Free Market Ideology, Conservative Economics, Barack Obama, Herbert Hoover, Great Depression, Politics News

Eighty years ago this week, an enormous sound emanated from lower Manhattan and began to spread in waves across the nation and, eventually, the world.

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Capitalism: A Propaganda Hate Film

Michael Shermer | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bank of America, Aig, Goldman Sachs, Free Markets, Capitalism—a Love Story, Gm, Propaganda, Democracy, Michael Moore, Willie Sutton, Franklin Roosevelt, Capitalism, Second Bill of Rights, Free Enterprise, Great Depression, Politics News

In Michael Moore's worldview, a goodly portion of the American people are ignorant, uneducated, clueless pinheads too stupid to realize the fundamental principle of a loan.

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Michael Moore's Grapes of Wrath

Dan Siegel | Posted 10.06.2009 | Entertainment

With the glimmering hope of the Obama campaign behind us, Moore's film is a wake-up call to renew and expand America's democratic promise.

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Is the Opposite of Capitalism Democracy? A Review of Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story

Anis Shivani | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Auto Industry, Foreclosures, Populism, Ronald Reagan, Larry Summers, Globalization, Economic Bill of Rights, Republic Windows and Doors, Goldman Sachs, Capitalism: A Love Story, General Motors, Dennis Kucinich, General Motors Bankruptcy, Roger & Me, Plutonomy, Financial Deregulation, Deindustrialization, Bill Clinton, Economic Crisis, Flint, Democracy, Franklin Roosevelt, Capitalism, Oligarchy, Nafta, Barack Obama, Sicko, Robert Rubin, Glass-Steagall Act, Jimmy Carter, Michael Moore, Alan Greenspan, Business News

Moore explicitly states that we ought to turn to democracy as the alternative to capitalism. But the opposite of capitalism is not democracy, it is socialism.

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Alert The TV News Media: Obamanomics Isn't Working

Diane Tucker | Posted 11.01.2009 | Media

Read More: John Cassidy, Job Losses, The New Yorker, Ronald Reagan, Unemployment Rate, New Deal, Fdr-New-Deal, Jobs, News Media, Media, Franklin Roosevelt, Diane Tucker, Barack Obama, Recession, Barack Obama Ronald Reagan, Cnn, Unemployed, Unemployment, Job Cuts, Fox News, Unemployment Benefits, Work Projects Administration, Charles Gibson, Banks, NBC News, Layoffs, Msnbc, Bank of America, Aig, Cnbc, Citibank, Bankruptcy, Timothy Geithner, Financial Crisis, The Recession, The Bailouts, Careers, Labor, CBS Evening News, ABC News, Small Business, Economy, Michelle Obama, Capitalism: A Love Story, Media News

Ronald Reagan governed over high unemployment numbers, and he was covered by a hyper-critical media. Yet today, most TV news outlets are giving President Obama a free pass on equally bleak statistics.

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Ken Burns' New National Parks Documentary Starts Slowly, But Gets Better

Levi Novey | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Grand Canyon, Theodore Roosevelt, Yellowstone, Stephen Mather, Documentaries, Dayton Duncan, Everglades National Park, Gifford Pinchot, Franklin Roosevelt, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Lincoln Memorial, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, History, Tourism, Martin Luther King, Ken Burns, John Muir, National Park Service, Yosemite, Documentary, Mark Twain, PBS Documentaries, National Parks, Forest Service, The National Parks: America's Best Idea, Civilian Conservation Corps, Green Jobs, Green News

I suspect those who only watch the first few episodes will be teetering on the edge of boredom. Those who stay around longer, or just cherry-pick an episode to watch among the later ones will end up much more excited and satisfied.

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A Kilowatt Earned is a Kilowatt Saved

Patti Prairie | Posted 09.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Conservation, Social Media, Climate Change, Franklin Roosevelt, Henry David Thoreau, Benjamin Franklin, Brighter Planet, Ban Ki-Moon, Global Warming, Green News

Benjamin Franklin, Henry David Thoreau, and Theodore Roosevelt made the environment personal, not an abstract untouchable concept. We need to do the same on climate change.

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The Silence of the Republicans

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Birthers, President Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Truman, Joe Wilson, Harry Reid, Republicans, Franklin Roosevelt, Democratic Party, Democrats, Republican Party, Nazi, Barack Obama, Politics News

A clear line can be drawn from the red-baiting and Muslim-baiting of Obama during the campaign to the birther movement and the accusation that the president was a Nazi to Joe Wilson's behavior.

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National Health Care and September 11th

Dr. Gino Yu | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Politics of Fear, Power of Nightmares, Fear, Barak Obama, Health, Adam Curtis, Media, National Health Care, September 11th, Franklin Roosevelt, Living News

With the confluence of the national health care debates and the anniversary of the terrorist attacks, I couldn't help but put the two together and wonder about the psychological impact of the "War on Terror" and its impact on the health.

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Apparently, You CAN Fool All of the People All of the Time

Brian Ross | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Ignorance, American Intelligence, Gop, Stupidity, Fear, Obama Birther, Ann Coulter, President Obama, Ignorance-and-Voting, Franklin Roosevelt, Media, Obama Socialism, America, Barack Obama, Fdr, Politics, Obama Birth Certificate, Polling, H.L. Mencken, Surveys, P.T. Barnum, Fox News, Republicans, Health Care, Obama Socialist, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Fcc, Birthers, Mark Lloyd, Birther Movement, Health-Action, Politics News

We are a fear-driven culture. There is a large segment of the population that, no matter how well you document it, will not let a good fact get in the way of their fears about health care reform.

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Love, Politics and The Media

Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics

Though we have elevated women to prime political positions, the media has cast female politicians in an odd, almost asexual maternal role. They're not allowed to wander off the territory.

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The "Loan Arrangers" Will Not Ride Again

Rep. Barney Frank | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mortgage Crisis, Economy, Economic Crisis, Tarp, Theodore Roosevelt, New Deal, Woodrow Wilson, Barney Frank, Aig, Franklin Roosevelt, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Joseph Kennedy, Regulatory Reform, Timothy Geithner, Ben Bernanke, Free Market, Wall Street Bonuses, Politics News

We will prove that the best thing you can do for capitalism is to have rules that give investors the confidence to get back into the system, that protect the great majority of decent people from abuses.

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When the Sanctity of Marriage Becomes Sanctimonious

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mark Sanford, Franklin Roosevelt, S.C. Governor Mark Sanford, Sanford Affair, Richard Nixon, Politics News

f I'm having open-heart surgery, I care only that the person performing it is a freaking-great doctor. Not who he is sleeping with. That's who I feel about politicians, too. But what I do care about is hypocrisy.

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Fear and Looting in America: Is President Obama a Financial Wimp?

Les Leopold | Posted 07.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Congress, TARP Money, Income Inequality, Economic Crisis, Larry Summers, Franklin Roosevelt, Housing Crisis, Barack Obama, Gambling, Unemployment, Wall Street, Bailout, Joe the Plumber, Financial Crisis, Timothy Geithner, Paul Krugman, Socialism, Great Depression, Business News

We cannot thrive or even survive in an economy that only moves money around instead of producing tangible goods and services.

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One Lesson from the 1930s: Financial Regulation Has to Be Bold

Mitchell Bard | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

Contrary to what John Boehner says, a big foot needs to be placed on the financial industry to make sure that last year's near collapse can never happen again.

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Politiku for Mother's Day

Susanna Speier | Posted 06.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Politiku, Phil Rose, Aaron Landsman, Political Mom, Roosevelt Clock, Weather Underground, Mathew Cohen, Don Goede, Mother's Day, Mom, Franklin Roosevelt, Wheel for a New Deal, Martha Danly, Poetry, Fdr, Living News

The impact that our mothers' feelings, ideas, ideals, experiences and activities have on us is difficult to grasp. What is clear, however, is that our mothers' politics influence our political identity

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Pete Seeger, "Folk Music" and the Left

Jesse Larner | Posted 06.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Fellow Travelers, James Lileks, Banjo, Joseph Stalin, Barbarossa, Ron Radosh, Pete Seeger, March on Washington, Folk Music, Woody Guthrie, Nicaragua, Bob Dylan, Mark Steyn, Kingston Trio, World War Two, Yalta, Billy Bragg, Communism, Doc Watson, Mao Zedong, Guitar, Leninism, Joan Baez, Franklin Roosevelt, Kim Il-Sung, Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro, Medgar Evers, Amy Goodman, Entertainment News

As someone on the left who loves folk music, I understand that I'm supposed to feel mystically uplifted by the dean of activist folkies. But I never could stand Pete.

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Threats of Secession and Other Recent Republican Rhetoric

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Secession, Texas, Franklin Roosevelt, Civil War, Vice President Barack Obama, Tea Bag, Tea Baggers, Revolution, Texas Governor Rick Perry, Rick Perry, Socialism, Tea Party, Republican Party, Politics News

Those on the far right can't have it both ways, calling for revolution and secession on the one hand, while protesting a report raising concerns about right wing extremist violence on the other.

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Some Hard Truth About Hard Times

Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

Using the Depression as a baseline for discussions of national prosperity ignores an important historical truth: for millions of average citizens, money was tight prior to the 1930s.

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Everybody's Wrong But Us

Michael Hais and Morley Winograd | Posted 05.14.2009 | World

Read More: Polls, Civic Era, Gop, Barack Obama, Franklin Roosevelt, Washington Post, Michael Gerson, World News

If Republicans truly want to see bipartisan policy-making, they must retreat from their position as a corporal's guard on the right wing of America and join the rest of us, seeking real solutions.

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Restoring Faith in Finance

Ann Pettifor | Posted 04.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Climate Change, Franklin Roosevelt, De-Regulation, Finance, Faith, Madoff Ponzi Scheme, Credit, Wall Street, Alan Greenspan, Business News

If we are to restore stability to the financial system and to restore our faith, we will have to first revive the ancient truths and regulations, including the truth about limits.

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There is Only One Cure for a Depression

Michael Pento | Posted 03.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Depression, Franklin Roosevelt, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Fed, Economic Stimulus Package, Stimulus Package, Federal Reserve, Business News

Do we have the patience to let the free market function and endure several years of hardship, or will the compulsion to intervene just propel us yet deeper into the abyss?

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Drinking Good for Depression? The Possible Repeal of Religious Repression

Warren Holstein | Posted 03.27.2009 | Comedy

Following in the footsteps of Franklin Roosevelt, many states are now advocating an end to what many boozers and businessmen alike deem antiquated puritanical pap. The Christian Right is not amused.

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Like FDR, Obama Learns from People's Letters

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: William Leuchtenburg, Lorena Hickok. Eleanor Roosevelt, New Deal, Louis Howe, Letters to the White House, Jake Tapper, Franklin Roosevelt, Robert Gibbs, Down and Out in the Great Depression, Barack Obama, Great Depression, Politics News

President Obama's motivation in reading a sampling of the letters from the public is essentially the same as Roosevelt's was: "to help get him outside of the bubble."

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Should President Obama Be More Optimistic?

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, John McCain, President Obama, Hope, Economy, Optimism, George W. Bush, Winston Churchill, The Fly, Franklin Roosevelt, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Mark McKinnon, President Bill Clinton, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter, Politics News

If Obama is truly committed to change, being more optimistic may not help him in that effort. Americans voted for Obama because they were acutely aware of the problems the country faces.

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