Would you like to know how many people have visited this page? Or how reputable the author is? Simply
sign up for a Advocate premium membership and you'll automatically see this data on every article. Plus a lot more, too.
 SHARE 
|
|
Host of 'The Breakdown,' Writer, and Senior Fellow, Campaign for America's Future
www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/the-dumbest-bipartisa
OpEd News Member for 629 week(s) and 6 day(s)
439 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 0 Comments, 0 Diaries, 0 Polls
Articles Listed By Date
List By Popularity
List By Popularity
Page 3 of 22 First Last Back Next 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 View All
(1 comments) SHARE
Friday, April 20, 2018
We Need a Housing Revolution Now To end this national disgrace, we need to come up with big and bold housing initiatives -- and we need to make them a fundamental part of the progressive agenda. They should start from a simple, clear declaration: Housing is a human right.
Friday, April 20, 2018We Need a Housing Revolution Now To end this national disgrace, we need to come up with big and bold housing initiatives -- and we need to make them a fundamental part of the progressive agenda. They should start from a simple, clear declaration: Housing is a human right.
(2 comments) SHARE
Monday, April 16, 2018
Seven Questions About the Syria Airstrikes That Aren't Being Asked The drumbeat of political pressure has forced Trump's hand. He has now directed missiles against Syria, twice. Both attacks carried the risk of military confrontation with the world's other nuclear superpower. Whatever his personal involvement with the Russian government turns out to have been, it is in nobody's best interests to heighten tensions between two nuclear superpowers.
Monday, April 16, 2018Seven Questions About the Syria Airstrikes That Aren't Being Asked The drumbeat of political pressure has forced Trump's hand. He has now directed missiles against Syria, twice. Both attacks carried the risk of military confrontation with the world's other nuclear superpower. Whatever his personal involvement with the Russian government turns out to have been, it is in nobody's best interests to heighten tensions between two nuclear superpowers.
(1 comments) SHARE
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
As the World Watches Syria, Don't Forget About Yemen liberal interventionism has always been packaged in American politics: with the notion that our highest ideals are best expressed, not through diplomacy, but through the projection of military force outside our borders. In this telling, history has ended. We are the indispensable nation. We alone must balance the war-torn world on our khaki-clad shoulders.
Wednesday, April 11, 2018As the World Watches Syria, Don't Forget About Yemen liberal interventionism has always been packaged in American politics: with the notion that our highest ideals are best expressed, not through diplomacy, but through the projection of military force outside our borders. In this telling, history has ended. We are the indispensable nation. We alone must balance the war-torn world on our khaki-clad shoulders.
(2 comments) SHARE
Monday, April 2, 2018
Is the "Liberal World Order" Worth Saving? The "liberal world order" hasn't helped competing nations get along. It has helped a small number of people, representing powerful interests in competing nations, work for their shared self-interest. It has permitted an international system of tax havens that undercuts national sovereignty and accelerates wealth inequality. And it has left most other people behind.
Monday, April 2, 2018Is the "Liberal World Order" Worth Saving? The "liberal world order" hasn't helped competing nations get along. It has helped a small number of people, representing powerful interests in competing nations, work for their shared self-interest. It has permitted an international system of tax havens that undercuts national sovereignty and accelerates wealth inequality. And it has left most other people behind.
SHARE
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Pete Peterson's Ghost Peterson's family deserves our condolences. But Pete Peterson was not the "profoundly good man" mourned by Bill Clinton -- at least, not for the rest of us. Peterson did great harm to people who were far more vulnerable than he was. And, unfortunately, his work lives on.
Tuesday, March 27, 2018Pete Peterson's Ghost Peterson's family deserves our condolences. But Pete Peterson was not the "profoundly good man" mourned by Bill Clinton -- at least, not for the rest of us. Peterson did great harm to people who were far more vulnerable than he was. And, unfortunately, his work lives on.
(7 comments) SHARE
Monday, March 26, 2018
This Is What Makes John Bolton so Dangerous With or without nuclear weapons, there are likely to be many more deaths now that Bolton has been appointed. Bolton is the ambassador of chaos. His proposed attack on nuclear-armed North Korea would almost certainly bring war to South Korea as well. He also advocates preemptive war against Iran. Either action would lead to mass death and chaos.
Monday, March 26, 2018This Is What Makes John Bolton so Dangerous With or without nuclear weapons, there are likely to be many more deaths now that Bolton has been appointed. Bolton is the ambassador of chaos. His proposed attack on nuclear-armed North Korea would almost certainly bring war to South Korea as well. He also advocates preemptive war against Iran. Either action would lead to mass death and chaos.
(3 comments) SHARE
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
There's Fake News on Your Television, Too In 1983, 90 percent of American media was controlled by 50 companies. Forty years later, 90 percent of the media was controlled by only five companies. The Sinclair/Tribune merger would accelerate that trend. Sinclair is a case study in the threat that media consolidation poses to democracy. This merger must be stopped.
Wednesday, March 21, 2018There's Fake News on Your Television, Too In 1983, 90 percent of American media was controlled by 50 companies. Forty years later, 90 percent of the media was controlled by only five companies. The Sinclair/Tribune merger would accelerate that trend. Sinclair is a case study in the threat that media consolidation poses to democracy. This merger must be stopped.
(1 comments) SHARE
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
The Resistance Needs Better Heroes Donald Trump is both corrupt and unstable. I share the hope Mueller succeeds in bringing him to justice, although a President Pence could conceivably do more legislative damage than Trump has done thus far. Trump's escalating war of words against Mueller, even as his lawyer argues that Mueller's investigation should be shut down, is deeply worrisome.
Tuesday, March 20, 2018The Resistance Needs Better Heroes Donald Trump is both corrupt and unstable. I share the hope Mueller succeeds in bringing him to justice, although a President Pence could conceivably do more legislative damage than Trump has done thus far. Trump's escalating war of words against Mueller, even as his lawyer argues that Mueller's investigation should be shut down, is deeply worrisome.
SHARE
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
The $24 Million Reasons Dems Back America's Worst Banks Why would Democratic senators join their Republican colleagues in pushing a bill that lays out a rich banquet of goodies before some of America's worst bankers, and increases the risk that taxpayers will have to bail them out? With this vote, these senators have thrown their constituents under the last bus out of town.
Wednesday, March 14, 2018The $24 Million Reasons Dems Back America's Worst Banks Why would Democratic senators join their Republican colleagues in pushing a bill that lays out a rich banquet of goodies before some of America's worst bankers, and increases the risk that taxpayers will have to bail them out? With this vote, these senators have thrown their constituents under the last bus out of town.
(2 comments) SHARE
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
The Kerner Report at 50: Still Separate, More Unequal Racism, economic inequality, police violence, and media bias: these were the instrumentalities of oppression the commissioners found 50 years ago. They are still with us today. The fact that the Kerner report still rings so true is its greatest accomplishment -- and our greatest failure.
Tuesday, March 6, 2018The Kerner Report at 50: Still Separate, More Unequal Racism, economic inequality, police violence, and media bias: these were the instrumentalities of oppression the commissioners found 50 years ago. They are still with us today. The fact that the Kerner report still rings so true is its greatest accomplishment -- and our greatest failure.
(1 comments) SHARE
Sunday, March 4, 2018
Ben Carson's Redecoration of HUD is Worse Than You Think As Carson was being pampered with office furnishings reminiscent of Louis XIV, his department was seeking $8.8 billion in cuts to programs that help low-income Americans. He wanted them to include massive cuts to the housing voucher program.
Sunday, March 4, 2018Ben Carson's Redecoration of HUD is Worse Than You Think As Carson was being pampered with office furnishings reminiscent of Louis XIV, his department was seeking $8.8 billion in cuts to programs that help low-income Americans. He wanted them to include massive cuts to the housing voucher program.
(9 comments) SHARE
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Picture the United States Without Student Debt In the US, 70 percent of college graduates have some level of student debt. The average four-year graduate owes more than $37,000. People who were unable to complete their education, often for reasons beyond their control, owed an average of nearly $9,000. Once they graduate, they face a labor economy where under-employment remains widespread.
Tuesday, February 27, 2018Picture the United States Without Student Debt In the US, 70 percent of college graduates have some level of student debt. The average four-year graduate owes more than $37,000. People who were unable to complete their education, often for reasons beyond their control, owed an average of nearly $9,000. Once they graduate, they face a labor economy where under-employment remains widespread.
(1 comments) SHARE
Friday, February 23, 2018
A Pledge to Transform the Resistance, and America Voters want leaders who will work for change. While this agenda was not designed as a litmus test, it certainly represents a platform that activists can use to assess political candidates. Conversely, candidates can use it to drum up support, knowing that it is backed by strong policy analysis and good politics.
Friday, February 23, 2018A Pledge to Transform the Resistance, and America Voters want leaders who will work for change. While this agenda was not designed as a litmus test, it certainly represents a platform that activists can use to assess political candidates. Conversely, candidates can use it to drum up support, knowing that it is backed by strong policy analysis and good politics.
(3 comments) SHARE
Monday, February 19, 2018
Trump's "Harvest Box" Delivers an Empty Promise There is a strong subtext of racism in the "harvest box" pitch, although 37 percent of people receiving food assistance are white. Nearly two-thirds of recipients are children, elderly, or disabled. Others are single parents. Some have been impoverished by structural racism, others by the economic collapse that has gripped entire swaths of our nation.
Monday, February 19, 2018Trump's "Harvest Box" Delivers an Empty Promise There is a strong subtext of racism in the "harvest box" pitch, although 37 percent of people receiving food assistance are white. Nearly two-thirds of recipients are children, elderly, or disabled. Others are single parents. Some have been impoverished by structural racism, others by the economic collapse that has gripped entire swaths of our nation.
SHARE
Thursday, February 15, 2018
A Kingdom Where Nobody Dies When we reached adulthood, each of us made an unspoken promise to the children of this country. We said we would protect them, support them, help them lead beautiful lives. Today, once again, that promise has been broken. America's rifle. America's promise. And America's childhood, a kingdom we've surrendered for no good reason at all.
Thursday, February 15, 2018A Kingdom Where Nobody Dies When we reached adulthood, each of us made an unspoken promise to the children of this country. We said we would protect them, support them, help them lead beautiful lives. Today, once again, that promise has been broken. America's rifle. America's promise. And America's childhood, a kingdom we've surrendered for no good reason at all.
(3 comments) SHARE
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Forget Trump ... His Party Is the Problem Now The Russia investigation is something of a Rorschach test. Many party loyalists see it as an open-and-shut case: Trump has treasonously conspired with a foreign power and must be impeached. I hate to be a killjoy, but that does not seem to have been confirmed by any independent investigation, including Robert Mueller's. It may be someday, but that's far from certain.
Tuesday, February 13, 2018Forget Trump ... His Party Is the Problem Now The Russia investigation is something of a Rorschach test. Many party loyalists see it as an open-and-shut case: Trump has treasonously conspired with a foreign power and must be impeached. I hate to be a killjoy, but that does not seem to have been confirmed by any independent investigation, including Robert Mueller's. It may be someday, but that's far from certain.
(2 comments) SHARE
Sunday, February 11, 2018
Progressives Beware: The United States of Care Is Not What It Seems Every other developed nation on earth has done a much better job providing medical care and controlling costs than this country's private sector. So has Medicare. We don't need magical fresh thinking. We need to take policies that have worked elsewhere and apply them to our entire health system. Liberals should withhold their trust from anybody who promises political miracles without answering tough questions.
Sunday, February 11, 2018Progressives Beware: The United States of Care Is Not What It Seems Every other developed nation on earth has done a much better job providing medical care and controlling costs than this country's private sector. So has Medicare. We don't need magical fresh thinking. We need to take policies that have worked elsewhere and apply them to our entire health system. Liberals should withhold their trust from anybody who promises political miracles without answering tough questions.
(2 comments) SHARE
Saturday, January 27, 2018
Trump's General Just Announced a New Cold War. Who Will Stop It? Tensions were already on the rise in 2016, before Trump took office, after U.S.-backed NATO troops began conducting maneuvers and taking positions on Russia's front line. In that sense, Mattis is simply making an existing state of cold-war hostility official.
Saturday, January 27, 2018Trump's General Just Announced a New Cold War. Who Will Stop It? Tensions were already on the rise in 2016, before Trump took office, after U.S.-backed NATO troops began conducting maneuvers and taking positions on Russia's front line. In that sense, Mattis is simply making an existing state of cold-war hostility official.
SHARE
Monday, January 22, 2018
Death by Inequality: Poverty and Racism Are Killing America's Children We can't address poverty or inadequate health care without addressing inequality. And we must pay more attention to the deaths of America's children. If terrorists had taken their lives, we'd hear about it night and day. But these children were killed instead by bigotry, political cynicism, and greed. Politicians and the press will keep looking the other way, and the deaths will continue.
Monday, January 22, 2018Death by Inequality: Poverty and Racism Are Killing America's Children We can't address poverty or inadequate health care without addressing inequality. And we must pay more attention to the deaths of America's children. If terrorists had taken their lives, we'd hear about it night and day. But these children were killed instead by bigotry, political cynicism, and greed. Politicians and the press will keep looking the other way, and the deaths will continue.
SHARE
Monday, January 15, 2018
Would Dr. King Take a Knee? 6 Ways His Radical Spirit Lives Today This Monday, the nation celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. If he hadn't been murdered, he would be 89 years old. How would Dr. King view today's activists? Would he join them to walk picket lines for a higher minimum wage, or take a knee as the national anthem is played?
Monday, January 15, 2018Would Dr. King Take a Knee? 6 Ways His Radical Spirit Lives Today This Monday, the nation celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. If he hadn't been murdered, he would be 89 years old. How would Dr. King view today's activists? Would he join them to walk picket lines for a higher minimum wage, or take a knee as the national anthem is played?
Page 3 of 22 First Last Back Next 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 View All
