By: Carolyn Napolitano,
on 8/2/2016
We are constantly told that we live in the Information Age. “Everyone has a smart phone.” “Over twenty-five percent of Americans have college degrees.” “Over one-third of the African American community now lives in the Middle Class, with a high school or better
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By: Yasmin Coonjah,
on 4/13/2016
In the 1983 movie The Right Stuff, during a test of wills between the Mercury Seven astronauts and the German scientists who designed the spacecraft, the actor playing astronaut Gordon Cooper asks: “Do you boys know what makes this bird fly?” Before the hapless engineer can reply with a long-winded scientific explanation, Cooper answers: “Funding!” If an economist were asked, “Do you know what makes this economy fly?” the answer, in one word, would be “trust.”
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By: Maryann Yin,
on 8/27/2015
By: Maryann Yin,
on 6/18/2015
Melville House will give away the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture to several 2016 presidential race candidates.
Of the sixteen people who have announced their intentions to run in this forthcoming election, only four have spoken out against the act of torture: Governor of Rhode Island Lincoln Chafee, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Governor of Maryland Martin O’Malley, and United States Senator of Vermont Bernie Sanders. The team decided to send five copies of the book and a letter to the remaining twelve contenders who have not publicly denounced torture.
According to the press release, the letter reads: “Please accept the enclosed copies of The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture, compliments of Melville House. We hope you’ll read and share these copies with your staff and advisers, and that they will help you clarify your position on the legality, morality, and efficacy of torture.”
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By: Jason Boog,
on 12/10/2010
U.S. Senator and author Bernie Sanders (Vermont, I) mounted a classic filibuster at 10:30 a.m. today, proclaiming that he would speak “as long as possible” to protest the tax deal negotiated between Republicans in Congress and Barack Obama‘s administration. He was still speaking as of this 5:07 p.m. EST writing.
In 1998, Verso published his book, Outsider in the House. The memoir outlined Sanders’ efforts to win reelection in 1996. Visit his official page to watch a live-stream of his speech. UPDATE: Former GalleyCat editor Ron Hogan notes that Sanders is reading from one particular book: “@SenatorSanders just added Arianna Huffington’s THIRD WORLD AMERICA to #fridayreads!”
Here’s an excerpt from his speech: “I think we can do better, and I am here today to take a strong stand against this bill, and I intend to tell my colleagues and the nation exactly why I am in opposition to this bill. You can call what I am doing today whatever you want, you it call it a filibuster, you can call it a very long speech. I’m not here to set any great records or to make a spectacle. I am simply here today to take as long as I can to explain to the American people the fact that we have got to do a lot better than this agreement provides.”
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