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Will Bunch is author of the new "Tear Down This Myth: How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future", published by Free Press, which examines the calculated effort by the modern right wing to canonize the 40th president, and how that's harmed America on everything from runaway debt to failed energy policies to unchecked greed on Wall Street. He is senior writer for the Philadelphia Daily News and author of its popular blog, Attytood.
Will has won numerous journalism awards, including a share of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for spot news reporting when he worked for New York Newsday. His articles have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, American Prospect, American Journalism Review and elsewhere, and he is author of one other book: Jukebox America: Down Back Streets and Blue Highways in Search of the Country's Greatest Jukebox.
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Saturday, April 21, 2018
Mitch McConnell gets his own chapter in the story of America's dying democracy. And it's devastating The fire alarms for democracy are clanging all across America. The notion that a president can arbitrarily fire the prosecutor looking at possible criminality in that president's campaign is the power reserved for a dictator, not the leader of a democratic republic.
Saturday, April 21, 2018Mitch McConnell gets his own chapter in the story of America's dying democracy. And it's devastating The fire alarms for democracy are clanging all across America. The notion that a president can arbitrarily fire the prosecutor looking at possible criminality in that president's campaign is the power reserved for a dictator, not the leader of a democratic republic.
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Thursday, April 12, 2018
What's a guy gotta do to get impeached in Trump's out-of-control America? The Emoluments Clause of the Constitution spelled out in plain old English that presidents are barred from profiting in their dealings with foreign powers. Trump's refusal to divest his global business interests while making life-or-death foreign policy decisions is a clear-cut case of the short-fingered vulgarian in the White House once again flipping the bird to constitutional law and democratic principles.
Thursday, April 12, 2018What's a guy gotta do to get impeached in Trump's out-of-control America? The Emoluments Clause of the Constitution spelled out in plain old English that presidents are barred from profiting in their dealings with foreign powers. Trump's refusal to divest his global business interests while making life-or-death foreign policy decisions is a clear-cut case of the short-fingered vulgarian in the White House once again flipping the bird to constitutional law and democratic principles.
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Thursday, March 29, 2018
America pays steep price for ignoring crimes of George W. Bush era It was the 20th century philosopher George Santayana who said that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," but even Santayana would likely be stunned at both the speed and the relish with which a 21st century United States is doing exactly that. At least this is one way in which America truly is exceptional.
Thursday, March 29, 2018America pays steep price for ignoring crimes of George W. Bush era It was the 20th century philosopher George Santayana who said that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," but even Santayana would likely be stunned at both the speed and the relish with which a 21st century United States is doing exactly that. At least this is one way in which America truly is exceptional.
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Friday, March 23, 2018
Vulture hedge-fund capitalism still devouring U.S. jobs. Will we ever do something? The real reason that Toys R Us has failed is (wait for it) vulture capitalism, as the chain's Wall Street owners (including Mitt Romney's former employer, Bain Capital) borrowed way too much money to make its 2004 purchase happen, leaving the retailer in a lurch when sales stagnated.
Friday, March 23, 2018Vulture hedge-fund capitalism still devouring U.S. jobs. Will we ever do something? The real reason that Toys R Us has failed is (wait for it) vulture capitalism, as the chain's Wall Street owners (including Mitt Romney's former employer, Bain Capital) borrowed way too much money to make its 2004 purchase happen, leaving the retailer in a lurch when sales stagnated.
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Thursday, February 1, 2018
Trump and his teleprompter assure America that the State of the Union is strong. No, really. In the hours before the speech, CNN and other news outlets were reporting that Trump may refuse to give Mueller an interview about alleged campaign collusion with Russia and obstruction of justice, that he might actually fire Mueller, and that the president is about to release a slanted, classified memo aimed at tarnishing the FBI and taking down Mueller's probe.
Thursday, February 1, 2018Trump and his teleprompter assure America that the State of the Union is strong. No, really. In the hours before the speech, CNN and other news outlets were reporting that Trump may refuse to give Mueller an interview about alleged campaign collusion with Russia and obstruction of justice, that he might actually fire Mueller, and that the president is about to release a slanted, classified memo aimed at tarnishing the FBI and taking down Mueller's probe.
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Tuesday, January 2, 2018
The one half-true thing Trump said in Times interview was scarier than his two dozen lies This past week -- the totally-devoid-of-actual-news dead zone between Christmas and New Year's -- that the president suddenly, without warning, made himself available for a half hour, without any aides present and with minimal interruption, to New York Times reporter Michael S. Schmidt for a rambling interview that completely dominated the cycle for the next 48 hours. In these crazy times, that seemed like an eternity.
Tuesday, January 2, 2018The one half-true thing Trump said in Times interview was scarier than his two dozen lies This past week -- the totally-devoid-of-actual-news dead zone between Christmas and New Year's -- that the president suddenly, without warning, made himself available for a half hour, without any aides present and with minimal interruption, to New York Times reporter Michael S. Schmidt for a rambling interview that completely dominated the cycle for the next 48 hours. In these crazy times, that seemed like an eternity.
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Monday, December 9, 2013
The World's Next Mandela Is Rotting in Jail Somewhere The Nelson Mandela of the 21st century is right here, right now. We just can't see it. We're too busy spitting on him and calling him a terrorist.
Monday, December 9, 2013The World's Next Mandela Is Rotting in Jail Somewhere The Nelson Mandela of the 21st century is right here, right now. We just can't see it. We're too busy spitting on him and calling him a terrorist.
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Thursday, May 16, 2013
The Day the Obama Administration Went All Nixon On Us Obama seems to be morphing into Nixon on steroids.
Thursday, May 16, 2013The Day the Obama Administration Went All Nixon On Us Obama seems to be morphing into Nixon on steroids.
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Thursday, February 7, 2013
Reagan Would Be 102 -- and Against Obama's Drone Policy Ronald Reagan was born on this date 102 years ago today. He died in June, 2004,& in the interim Republicans have transformed him into a conservative fetish. He wouldn't recognize his party to day because did not believe in torture, rendition, military tribunals, or in military strikes with a high risk of killing innocent civilians.
Thursday, February 7, 2013Reagan Would Be 102 -- and Against Obama's Drone Policy Ronald Reagan was born on this date 102 years ago today. He died in June, 2004,& in the interim Republicans have transformed him into a conservative fetish. He wouldn't recognize his party to day because did not believe in torture, rendition, military tribunals, or in military strikes with a high risk of killing innocent civilians.
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Saturday, January 7, 2012
A Pennsylvanian's Guide to the Rick Santorum You Don't Know The real Rick Santorum is indeed a frothy mixture -- of self-interest, loose ethical standards, and careerism in a career that's been largely devoted not so much to the social causes about which he makes headlines as looking out for the interests of big corporations and the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans.
Saturday, January 7, 2012A Pennsylvanian's Guide to the Rick Santorum You Don't Know The real Rick Santorum is indeed a frothy mixture -- of self-interest, loose ethical standards, and careerism in a career that's been largely devoted not so much to the social causes about which he makes headlines as looking out for the interests of big corporations and the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans.
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
The Accidental Truth-Teller: Glenn Beck, the Tea Party and Race The media needs to re-ground itself in the fact that on the playing field of social movements, Occupy Wall Street, despite its flaws, is rooted in a reality of billionaire-bought economic injustice, while the Tea Party is based heavily on an emotion.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011The Accidental Truth-Teller: Glenn Beck, the Tea Party and Race The media needs to re-ground itself in the fact that on the playing field of social movements, Occupy Wall Street, despite its flaws, is rooted in a reality of billionaire-bought economic injustice, while the Tea Party is based heavily on an emotion.
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
October 1, 2011: The Day The Future Crossed A Bridge Here's what the elites don't get. The Occupy protests aren't even about a political demand or agenda in a conventional inside-the-Beltway sense. The occupation itself is the message. Millions of long-ignored Americans simply want to be seen and heard, and to reclaim the public square that has systematically been taken away from us.
Thursday, October 27, 2011October 1, 2011: The Day The Future Crossed A Bridge Here's what the elites don't get. The Occupy protests aren't even about a political demand or agenda in a conventional inside-the-Beltway sense. The occupation itself is the message. Millions of long-ignored Americans simply want to be seen and heard, and to reclaim the public square that has systematically been taken away from us.
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Thursday, September 29, 2011
The Tea Party, Right-Wing Media and the Dog That Didn't Bark Now comes Roger Ailes to essentially tell us that the whole thing was a politically motivated ratings gimmick. And yet the Beltway pundits and the politicians still can't realize or admit that the Tea Party was at its brief peak just a 26 percent tail wagging the American dog... or that the dog stopped barking months ago.
Thursday, September 29, 2011The Tea Party, Right-Wing Media and the Dog That Didn't Bark Now comes Roger Ailes to essentially tell us that the whole thing was a politically motivated ratings gimmick. And yet the Beltway pundits and the politicians still can't realize or admit that the Tea Party was at its brief peak just a 26 percent tail wagging the American dog... or that the dog stopped barking months ago.
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Big media's shameful news brownout on the Wall Street protests Apparently for editors in their plush 8th Avenue skyscraper, the Wall Street Day of Rage is not among the news that the New York Times considers fit to print. There doesn't seem to have been any print articles in the Washington Post, either, and my sense is that television news coverage -- even on "liberal" MSNBC -- has been non-existent or less-than-minimal at best.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011Big media's shameful news brownout on the Wall Street protests Apparently for editors in their plush 8th Avenue skyscraper, the Wall Street Day of Rage is not among the news that the New York Times considers fit to print. There doesn't seem to have been any print articles in the Washington Post, either, and my sense is that television news coverage -- even on "liberal" MSNBC -- has been non-existent or less-than-minimal at best.
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Rick Perry's Glenn Beck Problem Perry told reporters that Beck was leading a movement to take back America and "I consider myself proud to be in that army."
Wednesday, August 17, 2011Rick Perry's Glenn Beck Problem Perry told reporters that Beck was leading a movement to take back America and "I consider myself proud to be in that army."
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Friday, July 8, 2011
Murdoch's American Sins: Less Sensational, But More Dangerous It's the simple memory of a slain British teenaged girl -- with the added shock that family members of casualties in that Iraq War and in Afghanistan also may have been phone-hacked, and reports of police officers taking bribes from journalists -- that brings the world's largest media empire to the edge of the abyss.
Friday, July 8, 2011Murdoch's American Sins: Less Sensational, But More Dangerous It's the simple memory of a slain British teenaged girl -- with the added shock that family members of casualties in that Iraq War and in Afghanistan also may have been phone-hacked, and reports of police officers taking bribes from journalists -- that brings the world's largest media empire to the edge of the abyss.
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Saturday, April 30, 2011
Racism on Ivy League Campus and by Alum Donald Trump Cut From Same Ugly Cloth The bozos who harassed University of Pennsylvania student Christopher Abreu and Donald Trump were saying exactly the same thing: How the hell did this black man end up on an Ivy League campus?
Saturday, April 30, 2011Racism on Ivy League Campus and by Alum Donald Trump Cut From Same Ugly Cloth The bozos who harassed University of Pennsylvania student Christopher Abreu and Donald Trump were saying exactly the same thing: How the hell did this black man end up on an Ivy League campus?
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Friday, April 8, 2011
It May Take 27 Years to Undo the Damage Glenn Beck Caused in 27 Months Glenn Beck, the engineer of the GOP crazy train is gone, but it's still a train wreck.
Friday, April 8, 2011It May Take 27 Years to Undo the Damage Glenn Beck Caused in 27 Months Glenn Beck, the engineer of the GOP crazy train is gone, but it's still a train wreck.
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
The True Meaning of Keith Olbermann Olbermann started the 2000s not as a liberal but a guy who still wanted to be a sportscaster. Things changed because he registered his disbelief at things so many other regular Americans also could not believe were happening--America preemptively invaded another country on false pretenses, a country founded on civil liberties was now promoting torture and indefinite detention...and on and on.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011The True Meaning of Keith Olbermann Olbermann started the 2000s not as a liberal but a guy who still wanted to be a sportscaster. Things changed because he registered his disbelief at things so many other regular Americans also could not believe were happening--America preemptively invaded another country on false pretenses, a country founded on civil liberties was now promoting torture and indefinite detention...and on and on.
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Arizona, Where the American Dream Went to Die Arizona is developing a culture that inevitably produces Jared Lee Loughners.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011Arizona, Where the American Dream Went to Die Arizona is developing a culture that inevitably produces Jared Lee Loughners.
