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Corporations? Corporations? Nobody Here but Us Chickens

In Why Higher Education SHOULD Have a Leftist Bias, author Donald Lazere surveys the means by which American corporations render their own political and economic power invisible while diverting blame for social ills to "the government." Author's note: This is an except from my recent book, "Why Higher Education SHOULD Have a Leftist Bias," published by Palgrave-Macmillan.strong text

'Joe the Plumber' takes a union job at Chrysler

The wingnut welfare must have run out for the man who became famous as "Joe the Plumber." Samuel Wurzelbacher, his real name, has had to get a job that involves something other than performing the role of the regular blue-collar white guy on the Republican speaking and media circuits-and it's a union job at Chrysler.

The demographic underpinnings behind America's blue shift, illustrated with interactive maps

Net racial change since 1990 If you've been around for a few decades' worth of presidential elections, you probably have a strong sense of which parts of the country are trending toward or away ...