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January 08, 2005
  • Love When White Folks Call Blacks Racist - Jonah Goldberg has declared blogger Steve Gilliard a racist based on Steve essentially calling Armstrong Williams an Uncle Tom for... MORE...

    February 22, 2004
  • More Lies, More Retractions - Want to see how the Bush rewrites bad news into propaganda? Don't wait for the 911 Commission or any other... MORE...

    February 12, 2004
  • Civil Rights Act of 2004 - I criticize the Supreme Court for its constitutional decisions, but the rightwing on the court does great damage just by... MORE...

    August 30, 2003
  • Will Arnie Disown U.S. English? - (Thanks to Atrios for getting me going on this research). Want to know why the rightwing Wurlitzer is going after... MORE...

    August 28, 2003
  • Faux News Smears Bustamante - FOXNews has jumped on the anti-MEChA bandwagon to smear Bustamante. Here you have conservatives saying that folks like Strom Thurmond... MORE...

    August 07, 2003
  • Good That Bustamante is In - Bustamante is in the race, and other Democrats should stay out. He was elected to replace Davis in case of... MORE...

    July 18, 2003
  • What's Wrong with NAACP Command Performance? - Both CalPundit and Kos and Tapped all thought the NAACP attack on Dem candidates who initially were going to skip... MORE...

    June 19, 2003
  • Who is in Unions - More in response to Kevin. There is a stereotype that unions organize richer workers. Which misses the point that unions... MORE...

    March 19, 2003
  • Wouldn't This Guy Be Dead if Black or Arab? - If an arab drove a truck into the National Mall, announcing he had explosives, do you think the police would... MORE...

    March 10, 2003
  • Not a "Trent Lott Moment" - Is this offensive? "If it were not for the strong support of the Cuban community for this embargo with Cuba... MORE...
  • GOP Attack on Estrada Opponents Backfires - The National Council of La Raza (NCLR) is one of the largest Hispanic organizations in the country. And they've remained... MORE...

    March 09, 2003
  • Backfire of "Anti-Latino" Line on Estrada Filibuster - There is an idiocy to Republicans harping on the idea that Democratic filibustering of Estrada is racist and anti-latino. The... MORE...

    March 08, 2003
  • My Census Bloc - Following on the advice of CalPundit, I checked out the Census's nifty electronic readout of my neighborhood. At the zipcode... MORE...

    March 06, 2003
  • Legacy of Affirmative Action- For Dubya - Bush's Yale Transcript Just remember all the black students he wants to knock out of Michigan Law School got better... MORE...

    March 01, 2003
  • Smearing of Kucinich - I'm late to this but the smearing of Kucinich by Josh Marshall and Kos just really is a low attack,... MORE...

    February 25, 2003
  • Hijacking of the Affirmative Action Movement - [This is my most recent Progressive Populist column, but I would emphasize what a threat I see this group is... MORE...

    February 21, 2003
  • Amandla! Revolution in Four-Part Harmony - SEE THIS MOVIE! It is hard to describe the brilliance and depth of this movie, exploring the history of the... MORE...

    February 20, 2003
  • Is there Room for Two Black Candidates? - From Slate: Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri, the former House minority leader, announced that he was taking steps to run... MORE...

    February 18, 2003
  • Bethlehem and Palestinian Ghettos - The Israelis are building a wall in Bethlehem to separate the Arabs from the Jewish part of town, just one... MORE...

    February 13, 2003
  • The DLC, Not Sharpton is Danger for Dems - Rightwing columnist Robert Novak has breathlessly warned the Democrats (being the friend of progressivism that he is) that Democrats are... MORE...

    February 12, 2003
  • More Race-Baiting Over Estrada - Well here is the New York Post with a headlined editorial Dixiecrats Redux. You know, if Estrada is such a... MORE...

    January 30, 2003
  • Estrada- American Dream or Privileged Hack - In promoting the Appeals Court nomination of Miguel Estrada, the rightwing's stealthy pick for the Supreme Court, the Republicans are... MORE...

    January 28, 2003
  • In Praise of the Old Confederacy - All of us progressive bloggers who have criticized Trent Lott and the South for remaining racism should take a... MORE...

    January 21, 2003
  • What is "Murder"? - In my In Defense of Al Sharpton post, I discussed the Crown Heights conflict here in NYC and referred to... MORE...

    January 20, 2003
  • Labor Monday- MLK Day Edition - Something different this week. I thought I'd spotlight some history of labor leaders and civil rights, especially some early black... MORE...

    January 17, 2003
  • In Defense of Al Sharpton - CalPundit like The American Prospect is denouncing Al Sharpton as dangerous, "a disgusting, race-mongering cretin" in Kevin's words. Now I... MORE...

    January 13, 2003
  • Is Hostility to Civil Rights Racist? - Just One Minute disses Ralph Neas of People for the American Way for stating that the organization does not accuse... MORE...
  • In Praise of Joe Millionaire - Okay, okay-- yes deliberately deceiving twenty women in order to induce the worst gold-digging stereotypes, then yanking out the truth... MORE...

    January 10, 2003
  • Pickering and Anti-Klan Testimony - It's become a mantra of the defenders of Charles Pickering that he "courageously" testified against a Klan leader back in... MORE...

    January 07, 2003
  • Why Bush Will Lose: Demographics of Dem Victory - The Future Belongs to Us I've stated repeatedly over the last six months my conviction that Bush will lose in... MORE...

    December 28, 2002
  • Bush's Education Strategy a Failure - The keystone of Bush's "compassionate conservativism" was his education policy, a promise to combine more funding with higher achievement through... MORE...

    December 26, 2002
  • Why Black People Die Early - In a few recent posts (here and here), I've noted problems with the conservative argument that blacks lose out under... MORE...

    December 20, 2002
  • Frist's Rightwing Voting Record - With the announcement that Bill Frist's challenge to Lott is gaining momentum, it's worth looking at Frist's record. And it's... MORE...

    December 19, 2002
  • DeLong on Coded Appeals to Bigotry - Brad DeLong has an on target take down of a piece by conservative Abigail Thernstrom who attacked the NAACP over... MORE...
  • Save Social Security- Integrate w/ Mexico - The rightwingers at FreeRepublic.com are having a shit fit over this story of talks to extend Social Security to Mexicans... MORE...

    December 18, 2002
  • Lott to Frist? - Racism to Medical Fraud - A question to ask is how the GOP ended up with a stupid racist like Trent Lott as Majority Leader?... MORE...

    December 17, 2002
  • Asian Americans and Affirmative Action - Michelle Dulak made important points in the comments (#2) of my affirmative action post, emphasizing the complication of discrimination against... MORE...

    December 16, 2002
  • Is Opposition to Affirmative Action Racist - Tapped feels I stepped over the line when I argued that: [In] a society that even questions whether to leave... MORE...

    December 13, 2002
  • Blogs Come of Age - Last Sunday I wrote: Okay folks, we have a test now of whether these odd weblog linking discussions matter in... MORE...

    December 12, 2002
  • My Scariest Referral Link - I've been very excited about all the links to this site due to postings on Trent Lott, but getting on... MORE...

    December 09, 2002
  • Gore: Lott Made "Racist Statement" - On CNN's Inside Politics, Gore said "He should withdraw those statements or the US Senate should undertake a censure." Note... MORE...

    December 08, 2002
  • Does the Blogoshere Matter? - Okay folks, we have a test now of whether these odd weblog linking discussions matter in the way talk radio... MORE...
  • Trent Lott- Racist - Racists then, racists now. Take Majority Leader Trent Lott, please. Speaking Thursday at a 100th birthday party and retirement celebration... MORE...

    December 06, 2002
  • More proof of Rightwing Racism - A few days ago I noted the historic racism of the conservative movement, symbolized by National Review's historic opposition to... MORE...

    October 22, 2002
  • Labor and Politics - Leo Casey asks in response to my post on Labor's endorsement of Pataki, on an email list we share: Although... MORE...
  • Myth of Declining Voting Turnout - Every election we inevitably have discussions about Americans failure to turnout to vote. Given how much gerrymandering has made elections... MORE...

    October 11, 2002
  • Tapped Goes Nativist (sorta) - I have to admit to being both perplexed and dismayed by this response by Tapped (scroll down) to my recent... MORE...
  • Tapped Goes Nativist (sorta) - I have to admit to being both perplexed and dismayed by this response by Tapped (scroll down) to my recent... MORE...

    October 10, 2002
  • Community Thursday (10-10) - Roundup of community activism, Oct. 10 Repression? Organize! The Arab AntiDiscrimination Committee has seen a doubling of membership in the... MORE...

    September 21, 2002
  • For Those Not Named Bush - This LA Times piece on a new study by the Sentencing Project highlights once again the brutal racist effects of... MORE...
  • For Those Not Named Bush - This LA Times piece on a new study by the Sentencing Project highlights once again the brutal racist effects of... MORE...

    September 10, 2002
  • Bush and Crack - Okay, Jeb's daughter Noelle had another drug relapse and other than the hypocrisy of the nice rehab treatment she receives,... MORE...
  • Blacks and Jews Again - Okay, Off the Pine argues that since liberal Jews raise a lot of money for blacks, the fact that Jewish... MORE...
  • Being GOP Star Made Him a Cokehead - One of the bigger recent defections from the Right is Glenn Loury, one of the stars of the black conservative... MORE...

    August 29, 2002
  • White Worship as Tolerance? - The NY Times has this story on how half-white Thais now dominate that country's fashion industry: Increasingly, the round face,... MORE...

    August 23, 2002
  • One last response on McKinney - Okay- I think this will be the last post on McKinney (the rest will stay in the comments) but Tapped,... MORE...

    August 20, 2002
  • Tapped Asks Whos to Blame on McKinney? - Tapped notes my concern about the likely blacklash from a McKinney defeat at the hands of Jewish money, but asks... MORE...
  • Hispanics in Cali: Earn more than in TX - And the reason? Unions. As the Houston Chonicle points out, both California and Texas have large immigrant Hispanic communities, but... MORE...

    August 08, 2002
  • Community Thursday (8-8) - Roundup of community activism, August 8 The National Council of La Raza has issues a "snapshot" (pdf) of employment for... MORE...

    August 02, 2002
  • Rightwing Watch (8-2) - Weekly roundup, August 2 Found the source for yesterday's Washington Times' screed against "union corruption." Not surprisingly, its from the... MORE...

    August 01, 2002
  • Community Thursday (8-1) - Roundup of stories, August 1 It may be the minimalist version of prison reform, but it's a start. The ACLU... MORE...

    July 31, 2002
  • Terror-Baiting Defenders of Rights - The Constitution has now become a document of subversion, according to the good folks at FrontPage magazine. Horowitz's columnist John... MORE...
  • Enviro Wednesday (7-31) - Roundup of environmental stories, July 31 As famine returns to Africa, it's worth focusing on new studies linking the 1970-85... MORE...

    July 29, 2002
  • Racism 101 for the Unconvinced - I am sometimes flabbergasted that conservatives can argue that racial profiling is overblown or that racial equality is even a... MORE...

    July 26, 2002
  • RightwingWatch Friday (7-26) - Roundup of doings on the Right - July 26 An Arizona anti-immigrant group is trying to get a church group... MORE...

    July 25, 2002
  • Community Thursday (7-25) - Roundup on July 25 The NAACP hailed the conclusion of a thirty-year housing battle in New Jersey fighting against the... MORE...

    July 22, 2002
  • Is "Nazi" an Empty Insult? - Off the Pine posts that" "There is no greater sign of intellectual and moral bankruptcy in discussion of the Arab-Israeli... MORE...

    July 17, 2002
  • NAACP Opposes Fast Track - Joining the labor movement and most of the environmental movement, the NAACP at its recent national convention adopted a strong... MORE...

    July 14, 2002
  • Some Israeli Moral Sanity - With a dose of moral judgement and a bit of backbone by the Labor Party, the Israeli cabinet has shelved... MORE...

    July 09, 2002
  • Nazi Likud Regime - I've always hated the leftist equation of Israel with Nazism, since it ignored the democratic pluses of Israel and the... MORE...

    July 08, 2002
  • More Green Party Insanity - Having decided to run a candidate against Paul Wellstone, the most liberal Senator, the Green Party in Texas has added... MORE...

    July 06, 2002
  • AIDS Holocaust v. 911 - Leo comments "Why do you have to burden a perfectly sensible and right on target commentary on how the governments... MORE...

    July 02, 2002
  • Campus Liberals Caused Enron? - The rightwing can sometimes be a caricature of itself. Now, the conservative National Association of Scholars is blaming Enron on... MORE...

    June 24, 2002
  • More GOP Race Baiting - Here is more race-baiting on judicial nominees by a group called the African American Republican Leadership Council . They actually... MORE...

    June 23, 2002
  • GOP Plays Race Card - The GOP whines about racial politics but they consistently "use the race card" with their public spokespeople. The irony is... MORE...

    June 19, 2002
  • Conservative Federalist Hypocrisy - Jeff Hauser commented on yesterday's securities regulation post: "One big story here is a disproportionately GOP group (I presume) practicing... MORE...

    June 17, 2002
  • Home Depot Cuts Off Military Supplies - In a bizarre move, Home Depot has told its 1,400 stores not to do business with the U.S. government or... MORE...

    June 14, 2002
  • Signs of the Recession Times - The recession means that we are reentering the real debate on persistent homelessness, one where in a post-Guiliani world in... MORE...

    June 13, 2002
  • More on Death Penalty - Biz had some thoughtful comments: Largely guilty maybe Nathan, but I live in Illinois. 12 Executions 13 reversals. I too... MORE...

    June 12, 2002
  • Kirk Hit by anti-arab McCarthyism - In a slimy hit piece, a conservative Texas monthly, the Austin review, is accusing Texas Senate Candidate Ron Kirk of... MORE...

    June 06, 2002
  • Sullivan as Loathsome Toad - Brad DeLong rips on Andrew Sullivan. Sullivan ridiculed the Economist for finding the failure of Zambia's copper privatization an interesting... MORE...

    June 01, 2002
  • Danes Pull up the Drawbridge - Yesterday, the Danish parliament approved legal changes that told immigrants to look elsewhere, barring most asylum seekers, slashing public benefits... MORE...

    May 23, 2002
  • TX to Elect Black Dem to Senate? - One of the most interesting races for the Senate is in Dubya's backyard, where black Dem Ron Kirk is facing... MORE...

    May 20, 2002
  • Liberalism versus Democracy - In my new upcoming Populist column, Remembering the Popular Will for Civil Rights, I am trying to recover the memory... MORE...

    May 19, 2002
  • Labor-Latino power in California - This story The Sacramento Bee -- From farm laborer to potentate in Capitol highlights the key story of California politics... MORE...
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    February 21, 2007
  • Amnesia on the Death of Reconstruction - I am going to pick on Brad Delong precisely because he is a brilliant and well-educated academic-- and his list... MORE...

    February 18, 2007
  • So What if Mitt Wants A Person of Faith as President? - There's a bit of a furor that Mitt Romney declared:We need to have a person of fiath lead the country.So... MORE...

    February 16, 2007
  • States Taking Action Against Iraq Escalation - So the New York Times is covering the story that resolutions denouncing Bush's Iraq Escalation have been introduced in over... MORE...

    January 01, 2007
  • Wal-Mart Doing Good for Environment - Seriously. This initiative by Wal-Mart to promote energy-saving light bulbs is a major environmental initiative. "Compact fluorescent" bulbs fit in... MORE...

    December 22, 2006
  • Dems' Stupid Positioning on Minimum Wage - As a followup to discussing why politicians need to appeal to a broad consensus, it's worth emphasizing that it's easier... MORE...

    December 21, 2006
  • Obama and the Need for Large Progressive Majorities - I've been as disappointed as many other progressive bloggers with Obama's bad votes on tort reform and seeming trimming of... MORE...

    December 13, 2006
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    November 27, 2006
  • Ecuador Goes Left - Another country moves left-- whatever you want to say, Bush has been very good for reviving the global left, especially... MORE...
  • Building a Progressive Majority in the Statehouses - The Progressive States Network today rolled out its legislative agenda for the 2007 session and is looking to promote it... MORE...

    November 13, 2006
  • The Future Belongs to US - While the actual results seem razer-thin in this election, I'll be bold and argue that they are part of a... MORE...

    November 11, 2006
  • Pro-Labor "Conservative Democrats" - One more nail in the narrative that the victory of a few moderate Democrats means this election is really a... MORE...

    November 10, 2006
  • The Collapse of Tax Cut Politics - You can check out Progressive States rundown of progressive successes in the states on Tuesday, but I want to focus... MORE...

    November 08, 2006
  • A Good Night for Progressives - Let's be clear-- this wasn't just a good night for Democrats. It was a good night for progressives, and no... MORE...

    November 01, 2006
  • Labor Cold War Ends - New International Labor Federation - At the dawn of the Cold War, the international union movement divided up between the ICFTU, dominated by US and Western European unions, and the World Confederation of Labor, largely allied with the Soviet Union. It's taken a decade and a half, but the irrelevancy of that division will end today as the two federations merge-- bringing together 241 labor organizations from 156 countries representing 190 million workers. The new International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is a good step for a labor movement looking to globalize itself in the taking on global capital power.... MORE...

    October 19, 2006
  • Immigrant Poor Send More Foreign Aid than US Govt - The United States government spends less money on foreign aid as a percentage of its budget than almost any other... MORE...

    October 17, 2006
  • - Valuing Families:  State Legislative Models Brought to you by Progressive States and MomsRising What would a policy that really values families look... MORE...

    October 09, 2006
  • Emaciated Models, Labor Regulation - There's a bit of debate in the blogosphere around Spain's new law banning underweight models from the runways in that country. See Jordan, Amanda at Pandagon and Lindsay Beyerstein at Majikthise on whether this is an intrusive regulating violating free expression or something like that and whether OSHA safety regulations are appropriate. Just to throw my two cents in-- any broader OSHA approach would seem cumbersome and bureaucratically intrusive in a deep way. But the original Spanish proposal is brilliant in its high-impact, low-intrusion approach. Regulate only the fashion week type runways, where in a single spotcheck, models can be... MORE...

    October 03, 2006
  • Big loss for Labor-- - The National Labor Relations Board ruled today that a range of professionals are now deemed "supervisors" and thus lose all protections under labor law. That means if they say a positive thing about unions, their bosses are free to fire them at will. The AFL-CIO has more here. To put this denial of labor rights in perspective, 32 million workers or 25% of the workforce already have no right to form a union under federal, state or local law (see this GAO report and this ARAW summary). This includes: Supervisors 16.6 million workers, 8 million new supervisors plus traditional 8.6... MORE...

    September 27, 2006
  • Civil War on the Right- Dick Armey trashes Dobson - The economic business- right and the religious right are moving towards total civil war. This piece by former GOP Majority... MORE...

    September 24, 2006
  • Allen the Racist - Three college teammates confirm that George Allen regularly used the N- word: Allen said he came to Virginia because he... MORE...

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