Posts Tagged ‘ politics ’

“We Won’t Bow Down”

By cmf
March 23, 2010
“We Won’t Bow Down”

With the deeply-flawed but still revolutionary Health Care Reform bill on my mind, I thought I’d point folks to this terrific piece by Rebecca Solnit (for whom I have total essay-talent-envy, if only I could do what she can do). Anyhow, it ran in the Nation a while back, and it’s an eloquent rebuttal...
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Something to Think About Before the State of the Union

By cmf
January 27, 2010

I haven’t read No Logo yet, but like Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy, it’s going on my list of interlibrary loan requests. I found this a couple of days ago, and in light of the forthcoming State of the Union, toward which I wish I was feeling less...
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Max? Whose Side Are You On, Anyway?

By cmf
September 30, 2009

I haven’t written about politics in a while, but this health reform debate is making me froth at the mouth. I’ve called Baucus’s office so many times that I think I’m on the “crazy lady” list. First off, the idea that we’re going to have a public mandate with no public option is insane....
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