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Postage and Other Economic Outrages Against Soldiers

Don McNay | Posted 12.08.2009 | Business

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Don McNay

America ships soldiers off to Afghanistan and Iraq for free. If you come back in a body bag, they ship that back for free, too. However, we make families who send soldiers socks, food and underwear pay shipping costs.

Goldman Sachs Seizing Homes Subprime Mortgages Bought

McClatchy | Greg Gordon | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business


Goldman spent years buying hundreds of thousands of subprime mortgages, many of them from some of the more unsavory lenders in the business, and packa...

Sparkman: Casualty of Methland, USA? Or Victim of Anti-Government Bile?

Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics


Richard M. Benjamin

Sparkman's workaday life and violent death -- whatever the cause and whoever the culprit -- highlight the precarious struggles of the white working class and the brewing storm surrounding the 2010 Census.

Tacky, Tacky, Wha????

Mike Stark | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics


Mike Stark

McAuliffe earned his buffoonish reputation by saying things like "Kiss my ass, Barack!" on the Jon Stewart Show.

Damn Yankees and Their Pricey New Stadium

Dave Astor | Posted 05.06.2009 | Comedy


Dave Astor

What's not to like about a sickeningly posh edifice partly funded by massive subsidies from taxpayers who can't afford its ultra-expensive tickets and food?

The Personal Politics of Hopelessness

Ian Welsh | Posted 05.02.2009 | Living


Ian Welsh

Then there are a fair number of politicians who will tell you about the lousy jobs they had as teenagers, or maybe in their early twenties. But they knew they weren't staying there.

Conspiracy of Silence: Wage Collapse Caused Crisis

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 02.06.2009 | Business


Jonathan Tasini

If the lines had continued to track closely together as they did prior to the 1970s, the minimum wage would be more than $19 an hour.

Women of Color in an Obama Era

Tara L. Conley | Posted 01.03.2009 | Politics


Tara L. Conley

I can't help but wonder how Obama's power as President will address the myriad of low wage-(or no wage)-earning, care-taking, health-insurance-lacking, poverty-stricken women of color in the US.

Pride and Confusion on the Campaign Trail

Graydon Gordian | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics


Graydon Gordian

As an Obama staffer in Michigan, reasonably often I found myself saying, "Which would be worse: losing your job or having a black president?"

The Tears Were Real; Palin Was A Pawn

James Rotondi | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics


James Rotondi

Maybe I'm just a sucker, or perhaps some misplaced machismo makes me want to defend damsels in distress. but watching Sarah Palin tear up, I actually felt a twinge of sympathy.

How About Those White People?

Susan Madrak | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics


Susan Madrak

Elections aren't about intellect. They're about emotion. That's why people so often vote against their own interests.

Beware False Profits

Gihan Perera | Posted 11.21.2008 | Business


Gihan Perera

Low-income communities were the canaries in the coal mine.

McCain Campaign Mentions Joe Six Pack But Never Addresses What It Means To Be Poor

Jane Devin | Posted 11.10.2008 | Home


Jane Devin

Poverty carries an emotional and stigmatizing price. It's losing teeth at a young age because a $600 root canal or 50% co-pay is unaffordable. It's not being able to afford to pay a $50 fine for a traffic violation, and ending up in jail.

Working Class White Voters Are Ditching McCain

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics


KITTANNING, Pa. — The steel mills and coal mines of western Pennsylvania helped fuel the nation's economic engine. Today, old factory shells and...

Hey McCain, the Rest of Us Are Still Showing Up For Work

Brett Ashley McKenzie | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics


Brett Ashley McKenzie

McCain made an agreement to show up at this debate, and he can't even honor that.

Suddenly Obama's Auto-Policies Matter: Michigan Is The New Florida

Diane Tucker | Posted 10.23.2008 | Home


Diane Tucker

Any sort of cash incentive to get manufacturers to build more efficient vehicles -- and to get people to buy more of them -- is an admirable thing. But let's not forget that if people just make smarter choices, this nation's energy usage will go down dramatically.

What Is Wal-Mart So Afraid Of? Four Words: Employee Free Choice Act

Robert Greenwald | Posted 10.14.2008 | Politics


Robert Greenwald

The Employee Free Choice Act is a vital piece of legislation that, if passed, will go a long way toward restoring the middle class in our country.

Trampling Working-Class Voters with the Professional Ideal

David Sirota | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics


David Sirota

What Democrats are really asserting is that they believe Americans see factory, small-business, and agriculture jobs as merely a means to a white-collar professional ends.

God and Taxes: Culture Wars as Class Conflict

Joan Williams | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics


Joan Williams

Once you understand that class is cultural, you can see why the culture wars are a perfect medium for class conflict in a society where open acknowledgment of class is taboo.

Race And The Courting Of Reagan Democrats

Ron Mwangaguhunga | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics


Ron Mwangaguhunga

Race, Buchanan would argue, is nearly irrelevant as an issue in this election when it concerns the white working class vote. How convenient!

Jim Webb On Winning Over Working Class Whites

Jackie Hammond | Posted 06.04.2008 | Home


Jackie Hammond

"If this cultural group could get around the table with Black America, you would see populist American politics change forever. These two groups want the very same things from government."

It's The Con Job, Stupid!

Chip Collis | Posted 04.22.2008 | Home


Chip Collis

Two of the three presidential candidates are running a major con job on you right now: It's in their attacks on Obama. He was right about economically disadvantaged and politically sidetracked Pennsylvanians.