Ode to The Catfish (Stuff the Other White People Like, and A Whole Lot of Black People, Too)
It was sad news to read of the decline of Southern catfish farms in today's New York Times. The farmers are going under because the cost of corn and ...
It was sad news to read of the decline of Southern catfish farms in today's New York Times. The farmers are going under because the cost of corn and ...
Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 04.17.2008 | Business
I just discovered that my friend who makes just shy of six figures is -- through a quirk of our legal system -- eligible for food stamps AND is using them.
Jim Wallis | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics
When King was assassinated, he was trying to move the country to take on the moral issue of economic injustice. And, for the first time in many years, the remembrances of King's death urged the nation to do the same.
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics
The biggest threat facing America isn't terrorism or the Chinese. It's the widening class divide. The rich are too rich, the poor too poor, and the only candidate seriously addressing this issue is John Edwards.
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 12.27.2007 | Politics
As in 1892, today in 2007 a weakened union full of religiously and racially segregated sects, and an inflated state of Corporatism, threaten to sever the spinal cord of this fragile democracy.
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 12.20.2007 | Politics
We're all workers, anchored beneath the caste of generationally transfixed wealth. We're not Rockefellers. We're not Astors. We're not wealthy.
Robert Drago | Posted 12.13.2007 | Living
Successful candidates in either party will need to provide concrete proposals to help low-income working families if they hope to win the South. Liberal politics look to be the new, winning Southern strategy.
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.03.2007 | Politics
The demographic that starts to feel "I'm a part of something that is going to change this country, and I'm proud to go vote" may be the key to victory for one of the Democratic candidates.
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.28.2007 | Politics
Time for another round of Democratic talking points, for the benefit of whoever's going to be on this weekend's Sunday morning talk shows (or for any ...
Jim Wallis | Posted 09.21.2007 | Politics
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Beth Arnold | Posted 07.18.2008 | Living