NEW – JOHN NICHOLS Beto O’Rourke & What It’s Going Take to Turn Things Around
Written on October 13th, 2018https://www.thenation.com/authors/john-nichols/
NEW – JOAN WILLIAMS – White Working Class – Overcoming Class Cluelessness
Written on September 28th, 2018A friend emailed me JOAN WILLIAMS’ Harvard Business Review article, What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class. Read over 3.7 million times, it’s the most read article in HBR’s 90-plus year history, and I can see why. WILLIAMS is the author of WHITE WORKING CLASS: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America. “If we don’t take steps to bridge the class culture gap, when Trump proves unable to bring steel back to Youngstown, the consequences could turn dangerous.”
NEW – MICHAEL BRUNE – Sierra Club ED, Good news, Bad news, Get Involved
Written on August 30th, 2018California Natural Resources Agency predicts severe heat waves, wildfires, ocean rise will cost thousands of lives and billions of dollars. Trump administration decimates Obama emissions rules for cars and power plants. Rise Up for Climate global day of action Sat 9/8. MICHAEL BRUNE, Executive Director of Sierra Club, shares good news, bad news, and ways to get involved.
https://www.sierraclub.org/michael-brune/bio
NEW – ADAM WINKLER – Supreme Court – Why do corporations have civil rights?
Written on July 26th, 2018Under John Roberts, Supreme Court decisions are consistently pro-business, recently based on corporate rights of free speech and freedom of religion. How did we get here? Will it only get worse with the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh? Listen to my conversation with ADAM WINKLER, constitutional law professor at UCLA and author of Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America and his latest, We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights.
https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/adam-winkler/
NEW – Nancy MacLean – Democracy In Chains-The Right’s Plan to Weaken the Voice of the People
Written on May 19th, 2018