The Debt Crisis in Puerto Rico: Why Is It Not More Newsworthy?
This piece, by TransEx blogger Robert Prasch, is reposted from yesterday’s New Economic Perspectives. It’s a timely piece which raises concerns about the lack of “newsworthiness” of an American...
View ArticleConsumer Activism and the Biopolitics of Consumption
In my research, I’ve been exploring neoliberalism and the biopolitics of charity. How do we understand consumption and activism in a society whose social/public safety nets are increasingly eroded? I’m...
View ArticleCorrecting the Poor: The Civilizing Impulses of Homo Corporatus and Private...
This is the next post in my series on Neoliberalism and Charity. Part 1 is posted here and at New Economic Perspectives. _________________________________ Should anyone—the state or any other...
View ArticleChildren murdered, homes foreclosed: How the government makes “mistakes” with...
Anyone who’s been at the mercy of the DMV, the IRS, or a health insurance company knows that bureaucracies make mistakes. Most people are accustomed to bureaucracies making mistakes. And even...
View ArticleIs Violence Cultural?
As the #YesAllWomen hashtag trended over the weekend, I tweeted out a few of my own. In response to one of my tweets [about having been menaced on 3 separate campuses by male students who were...
View ArticleRecent pieces
I have been writing, just not on here. Here are the excerpts and links to some recent pieces published on Salon over the last few months, but which weren’t posted on the blog. I also have some new...
View ArticleTreating Prisoners as Well as Farm Animals
The legislature in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is now considering passing Bill S.2232. Officially entitled, “An Act to ensure continued humane animal care in Massachusetts,” this commendable bill...
View ArticleHuman Rights and Selective Amnesia: Gazans’ expulsion from humanity
In 1946, mostly due to the efforts of Eleanor Roosevelt, the spouse of the late president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a committee was convened to draft what would become the Universal Declaration of...
View ArticleFerguson: Not a revelation, but a reminder of White Supremacy
The news that a police officer shot an African American teen several times in the chest was shocking, horrifying, gut-wrenching. But it was not surprising. As even a weekly perusal of newspapers tells...
View ArticleWhat Do You Mean “We” Tortured Some Folks?
About a week ago, for the first time ever, the US government, through the comments of its Chief Executive no less, confirmed that “folks were tortured.” Simultaneously, he observed that there “was...
View ArticleShoot first, ask later: Why the concept of “reasonable fear” is anything but...
Hi, all. I’ve taken a Twitter breather. I’m finding that my work is a little more focused off Twitter, but will probably be back a little later. This post came out in Salon earlier in the month, but I...
View ArticleSome thoughts as we head even further* into the KaliYuga (the epoch of...
This post comes after a long hiatus from this blog: almost 2.5 years later. As some of you know, I lost my darling almost 2 years ago next week, and I moved to the South which, remarkably, has...
View ArticleThe Politics of Distraction and Chaos
The latest Executive Order from DT, banning Syrian refugees and putting a 90 day hold on Iraqi nationals who want to enter the US has, at least on the surface, put us on a new playing field it seems. I...
View ArticleWhich Mothers Do We Honor?
Which Mothers Do We Honor? As many folks paid homage to their mothers on social media yesterday, I worried a bit (okay, a lot) about the way that their public sentiments papered over the ways in...
View ArticleGuns, Violence and Entitlement
The national focus on the most recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida has pointed to an ever-increasing agreement on the best policy action: Take away guns. Now. Indeed, 20 years after Columbine,...
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