The breathtaking battle that is taking place in America today over health care is deeply troubling in many ways, but the principle factor behind this contentious war is one that goes to the heart of our democracy. It is a corrupting power so intertwined with our American dream that it is arguably protected by our [...]
President Obama Address to Joint Session of Congress on Health Care (Full Text)
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Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, and the American people:
When I spoke here last winter, this nation was facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. We were losing an average of 700,000 jobs per month. Credit was frozen. And our financial system was on the verge [...]
Sotomayor’s Appointment Highlights a Time When Public Housing Was a Place of Hope
There are many wonderful things about Sonia Sotomayor’s appointment to the US Supreme Court, but one of special interest to me, as a scholar of Bronx history, is the way it highlights an era when public housing was a place of hope and possibility for working class families in the borough.
Today, [...]
President Obama Address to Joint Session of Congress on Health Care (Full Text)
Click here for the full Video
Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, and the American people:
When I spoke here last winter, this nation was facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. We were losing an average of 700,000 jobs per month. Credit was frozen. And our financial system was on the verge [...]
The War Against American Progress
The breathtaking battle that is taking place in America today over health care is deeply troubling in many ways, but the principle factor behind this contentious war is one that goes to the heart of our democracy. It is a corrupting power so intertwined with our American dream that it is arguably protected by our [...]
Twitter is not Facebook (And It Doesn’t Want To Be)
Carol Phillips, a “tweep” of mine and marketing professor at Notre Dame University, recently wrote an article describing an alledged failure of the popular social medium Twitter to offer real value to the Millenial Generation also known as Generation Y. The article, which focuses largely on a comparison of the two news-making social networks of [...]
Why Traditional Media is Dead
Take everything you know about traditional media and throw it out a ten story window. Laugh gleefully at its destruction and enjoy a baser instinct than your probably used to for the briefest of moments, go ahead. You will get far more joy that way than holding onto obsolete learning in an era of monumental [...]
Worldwide “Trickle Down” of Economic Collapse
Drip. Drip. Drip.
This morning, an otherwise beautiful wintry Friday morning, brings with it something far more chilling than any cold front. With the failure of the big 3 automotive bailout in the United States we look forward to an economic outlook more imperiled than any we have seen in generations. It is not simply two, [...]
Status of Forces Agreement and the Likely Attack on Iran
There are certain fundamentals to an international negotiation that simply cannot be massaged or altered, even with the political momentum fostered by America’s incoming president, Barack Obama.
In the last five years, Tehran and Washington have jockeyed for influence in Iraq and occasionally negotiated with each other to shape the country’s democratic Shia majority to their [...]
For Most Americans, The Worst Consequences of The Economic Crisis Are Yet To Come
If you read the newspapers, watch the news, and search the internet for new of the economic crisis, you will get the impression that the global recession is easing and may soon “bottom out.” The Obama Administration’s stimulus package, coupled with a infusion of funds into the banking system by TARP [...]
Sotomayor’s Appointment Highlights a Time When Public Housing Was a Place of Hope
There are many wonderful things about Sonia Sotomayor’s appointment to the US Supreme Court, but one of special interest to me, as a scholar of Bronx history, is the way it highlights an era when public housing was a place of hope and possibility for working class families in the borough.
Today, [...]
The War Against American Progress
The breathtaking battle that is taking place in America today over health care is deeply troubling in many ways, but the principle factor behind this contentious war is one that goes to the heart of our democracy. It is a corrupting power so intertwined with our American dream that it is arguably protected by our [...]
Twitter is not Facebook (And It Doesn’t Want To Be)
Carol Phillips, a “tweep” of mine and marketing professor at Notre Dame University, recently wrote an article describing an alledged failure of the popular social medium Twitter to offer real value to the Millenial Generation also known as Generation Y. The article, which focuses largely on a comparison of the two news-making social networks of [...]
Is Health Care Debate on the Right Dangerous?
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