I am overwhelmed by options. Every day I'm given new and better ones - stores offer me new products, Brown offers me new classes and activities and my TV offers me new issues and people to care about. In the hyper-media, hyper-representational, hyper-connected world of today, I am catered to.
John Podesta, founder of the Center for American Progress and former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, calls the recent Democratic electoral victory "the end of the grand conservative experiment." But conservative talking heads beg to differ.
About 50 people showed up on Sept. 27 to hear media critic Jeff Cohen, founder of Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting, stick it to the corporate media giants. And stick it he did.
When I was 12, I watched my stepfather bribe an airport police officer to get us to the front of a very long baggage checking line. I remember feeling like we'd cheated, like we were unfairly bilking the other customers who didn't have $20 bills in their pockets. These days, as I read about lawmakers ...
Take a walk through my sister's affluent suburban neighborhood in Palo Alto, California and, I swear, after a while you just might forget that there are pain and injustice in the world. Pass by its perfectly arranged gardens, brand new toys strewn on freshly cut lawns and boys casually walking home ...
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