Politics

Since people equate all public workers with the evils of big government, they feel justified in calling for elimination of public employees, but what society would we have without these essential workers?

The great magic trick in this era of joblessness and historic inequality is that the Republican party has actually convinced many Americans that the real threat to their economic survival comes from the poor and the middle-class.

Obama's stimulus plan has only exaggerated the fake recovery by funneling money into tax breaks and the short-term alleviation of state deficits. Massive State layoffs have only been delayed, not prevented.

At first glance, accounting requirements passed by the GOP in 2004 seemed like a prudent law, but they were actually designed to undermine pensions by making them appear to be generating huge deficits.

The Supreme Court has ruled that money is a form of speech, and corporations are people; however, all is not lost, and the future might hold out the possibility for truly free and open elections.

Health care reform is a lot like higher education policy: politicians seem to only talk about access and rarely do they address affordability and quality.

We must not be manipulated by the right-wing and libertarian fanatics who dominate the blogosphere and airwaves but probably only make up a small percentage of the general public.

I have long tried to get university students to explore their own unconscious cultural racism, but this effort is often stalled by the way people resist learning about uncomfortable aspects of themselves.

The next stage of the college protest movement has to be to use this new coalition power to change how states fund education. We must push the president and the Democrats for a progressive tax system.

The reasons why the numbers never add up in higher education is that universities and colleges use a false and misleading method to determine the cost of undergraduate instruction, to the detriment of us all.

While many have been arguing that the only visible political movement on the ground these days is the loose band of tea partiers, the protests at the University of California reflect another political force.

In the brave new world where universities operate like hedge funds, institutions of higher learning have lost their way by caring more about interest rates than educational quality.