All 239 articles by David Sirota
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Embracing ‘Enough’
Most Americans know when someone earns enough money. But those calling the shots just don't get it.
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When it Comes to Education Technology, Trust but Verify
New gadgets in the classroom may cost more than schools bargain for.
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The Economic Normalcy Bias
Even in a time of financial crisis, our culture consumes as if there were no tomorrow.
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Our Selective Definition of Bigotry
There's unacceptable racism, and then there's acceptable racism.
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America’s Real Occupiers
Public officials who remove themselves and their families from the community they govern.
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Commemorating Our Soon-to-Be Lost Vernacular
What words and phrases will end up as relics of the past?
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‘Tis The Season of Fake Outrage
Every year, the right wing inevitably decries the nonexistent 'War on Christmas.'
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Banana Republicans’ Assault on Democracy
Why does America's highest-ranking GOP politician oppose scrapping the electoral college?
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What Real Education Reform Looks Like
New reports underscore what should be obvious: Poverty and punitive funding formulas drive America's education problems.
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Celebrating the End of Kids’ Wall Street Dreams
The number of young people in finance-related fields is falling—and that's not a bad thing.
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Anger Sowing Seeds of a New Consumer Movement
A new study suggests consumer rage against businesses is at an all-time high.
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Why Income Inequality Suddenly Matters
Americans are tired of watching the rich getting richer while the dream of upward mobility becomes a joke.
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TV That Finally Lifts Journalism Back ‘Up’
Up With Chris Hayes purposely rejects the manufactured red-versus-blue mallet that bludgeons every issue into partisan terms.
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The Choice Between Democracy and Autocracy
City mayors are going medieval on their protesting subjects.
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Government by Death Panel
Our political leaders regularly make blood-soaked decisions that cost people their lives.
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Stopping the Insanity
If you suspect our lawmakers and corporate leaders are all crazy, you could be right.
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How Baseball Explains Modern Racism
America's pastime reveals a larger lesson about conditioned behavior in an institutionally racist society.
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Two Heads of One Political Monster
Let's not pretend that there are vast differences between America's two political parties.
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University of Hypocrisy
Why do America's colleges celebrate drinking alcohol but have no tolerance for marijuana?
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Ten Years Later, It’s Time to ‘Broaden the Context’
It's time for Americans to grow up and have a mature conversation about 9/11 and uncomfortable truths.
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The Lesson of the Chinese Invasion
Many economic Nostradamuses have long predicted that the epitaph on America's tombstone will ultimately read "Made In China."...
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Race and the Church of Denialism
Republican guru Karl Rove recently appeared on Fox News to dispute the idea that America is a "Christian...
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The Vegetarian’s Dilemma
As a new father who (ages ago) did a short stint as a press secretary, I'm already thinking...
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Collateral Damage in the War on Anonymity
From warrantless wiretapping to ever-present surveillance cameras, our world is right now in the midst of a long...
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The Bizarro FDR
Barack Obama is a lot of things--eloquent, dissembling, conniving, intelligent and above all, calm. But one thing he...
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The Terrorist Threat We’re Ignoring
According to the U.S. government, the list of known bogeymen working to compromise American national security is...
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Toward a New Politics of Food
The easiest way to explain Gallup's discovery that millions of Americans are eating fewer fruits and vegetables than...
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The Finland Phenomenon
When I heard the news last week that the Department of Education is aiming to subject 4-year-olds to...
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Shining the Spotlight on the Corporate Pay Gap
We've long known that executive pay has skyrocketed during the last 40 years--and especially during the last 20. As the...
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Promoting Militarism While Hiding Bloodshed
In a breathless story somehow presented as a groundbreaking revelation, The New York Times recently reported that the...
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America’s Energy Ethos: Do, Regardless of Harm
Laugh me off as the idealistic son of a physician (which I am), but I still thought the...
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Cutting Kids’ Healthcare Will Make Deficits Bigger
In the name of curtailing deficits, politicians across the country are hacking away at programs that aim to...
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Time To Crackdown on Child-Focused Ads
Is Snoop Dogg the new Joe Camel? Is Ronald McDonald? What about Facebook--has that website become synonymous with...
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Turning the Camera on the Police
What's good for the police apparently isn't good for the people--or so the law enforcement community would have...
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Bin Laden Mission Evokes More Questions Than Answers
If the mission to neutralize Osama bin Laden were a blockbuster movie, the screen would have almost certainly...
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The High Cost of Cheap War
It seems only fitting that in the very month the "Terminator" sci-fi franchise predicted the rise of militarized...
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Why the Fat Guy Should Lose His Privilege
"Obesity is a national health crisis...If current trends continue, it will soon surpass smoking in the U...
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Beware of Vampire Squids and Their Stadium Schemes
When it comes to media voyeurism and the economic insights it can provide, the ads in Vanity Fair...
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Ikea Joins the Race to the Bottom
When it comes to ubiquitous symbols of mass American culture, the 1999 movie Fight Club aptly reminded us that...
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The Real Madness of March
Lowell Bergman is the rare skunk who regularly finds his way into the power elite's garden parties. As...
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Lessons of Libya
Launched almost exactly a quarter-century after Ronald Reagan first bombed Tripoli, America's new war in Libya was guaranteed...
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A New Red Dawn
The 1984 film "Red Dawn" fantasized about a group of American teenagers called the Wolverines who valiantly repelled an...
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Mad Scientists in the Laboratories of Democracy
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once said that states are the "laboratories of democracy." Oft repeated over time,...
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In Celebrities We Trust: An Excerpt From ‘Back to Our Future’
How Michael Jordan and the 1980s reshaped American politics.
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The ‘80s Origins of Today’s Anti-Muslim Bigotry
The least intriguing aspect of Republican Rep. Peter King's congressional hearing this week on terrorism and the "radicalization...
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State Budget Crises Mean New Language of Deceit
For most of history, we had undebatable definitions of words such as "bailout" and "bankruptcy." We understood the...
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Two Public Pay Standards, One Statement of Values
As the latest showdown to dominate American politics, the battle between Wisconsin's governor and public employees, carries many...
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The Submerged State
The Great Paradox--that is what future generations will likely call this era, and rightly so. Our children's children...
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The Super Bowl of Socialism
The Super Bowl has become a true televisual non sequitur--a bizarre "Rocky"-style montage mashing together as many...
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With Democracy or Against It—There’s No In Between
In America, politicians are rarely compelled to turn rhetoric into action. Presidents make public commitments to support legislation...
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