The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous "Educated Proletariat”
In 1970, Roger Freeman, who also worked for Nixon, revealed the right’s motivation for coming decades of attacks on higher education.
Jon Schwarz
Before joining First Look Media, Jon Schwarz worked for Michael Moore’s Dog Eat Dog Films and was a research producer for Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story.” He’s contributed to many publications, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, and Slate, as well as NPR and "Saturday Night Live." In 2003, he collected on a $1,000 bet that Iraq would have no weapons of mass destruction.
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Real Estate CEO: Recession Could Be “Good” If "Unemployment … Puts Employers Back in the Driver Seat"
The executive told Wall Street analysts that joblessness could help companies “bring people back in the office … where they want them.”
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Seven Philosophies Better Than Longtermism
There’s literally no belief system humans won’t adopt in order to avoid dealing with the obvious problems right in front of them.
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It’s Not Just Trump — LBJ Took Classified Documents Too
Johnson wanted to stop Americans from learning about Nixon’s Vietnam treason and his own lawless surveillance.
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Al Qaeda’s Zawahiri Would Have Made a Great American Pundit
Zawahiri’s rhetorical style would have fit right into the U.S. political spectrum.
Bank of America Memo, Revealed: “We Hope” Conditions for American Workers Will Get Worse
The financial behemoth privately fears that regular people have too much leverage.
Right-Wing Supreme Court Continues Its “Great Fraud” About the Second Amendment
As former Chief Justice Warren Burger said: “The Framers clearly intended to secure the right to bear arms essentially for military purposes.”
Despite What Pundits Claim, Most Elections Don’t Tell Us Much of Anything About America
The message from most elections is “Americans Still Disengaged From What the Political Class Spends Its Life Yammering About."
History Says Democracy Will Die if Democrats Don't Try “Going Big”
Robert Kuttner warns Biden's presidency may be the "heartbreaking interregnum between two bouts of deepening American fascism."
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Life in America’s Culture of Ultraviolence
“I hated having the power to kill someone,” my father once told me about carrying a gun. But many, many Americans seem to love it.