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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 and the Federal Reserve, [...]

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 [...]

The National Review Online, perhaps the premier online journal for the conservative viewpoint, has a post today on “The Jim Cramer Treatment” that I was going to respond to until I saw this advertisement plastered on the page of their blog: The ad is as tasteless as it is offensive. I was at Fordham University [...]

While all blogging is an exercise in mild narcicism you will all be pleasantly surprised to find I expect you to be exhuberant about my return to writing for the Thinking Press. It has been about five months since I lost a bit of interest in maintaining this publication, and there were a few reasons [...]

Creating Opportunity Out of Tragedy-  Why Occupying Abandoned  Commercial Space May be the Next Phase of the Civil Rights Struggle Dr Mark Naison Fordham University Whether or not auto bailout legislation passes, the US economy is about to experience an abandonment cycle comparable to what took place in the South Bronx in the 1970′s and in rustbelt [...]

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