Let’s set aside the policy debates of the presidential primaries for a moment. Instead, focus on the line-ups of the parties’ nominees. The two sets of candidates flip conventional wisdom on its head. The Democratic Party usually advocates policies and values such as diversity, affirmative action, multi-culturalism, inclusiveness and so on. It also tries to […]
Archives for September 2015
Syrian refugees and America’s retreat
Photos of the body of a three year old boy washed up on a beach in Turkey have drawn worldwide attention to the plight of refugees from five years of civil war in Syria. Friends from across the globe, many of whom seldom take to social media, were so shocked by the images that they […]
Memo to Robert Reich: Should we care what the top 1% earn?
[Originally posted on Facebook, September 6, 2010] Robert Reich’s Labor Day blog referred to the following fact: ”In the late 1970s, the richest 1 percent of American families took in about 9 percent of the nation’s total income; by 2007, the top 1 percent took in 23.5 percent of total income.” He used this data point […]