It’s rare to see the mainstream media’s pundits really demystify the hidden political motives behind “neutral,” technical, state decisions. Six-hour long voting queues in south Florida, which evoke images of a developing nation’s democracy, are not failures of preparation. They are class- and race-conscious attempts at disenfranchisement. Rachel Maddow, MSNBC’s new post-Matthews counterpart to Kieth [...]
-
what i'm reading
- Op-Ed Contributor - Congress’s Torture Bubble - NYTimes.com
- Drug Cartels in Mexico Find It Easy to Get Guns Bought in the U.S.
- BBC NEWS | Middle East | Mecca mosques 'wrongly aligned'
- Reinventing America’s Cities - The Time Is Now - NYTimes.com
- TARP Funds Get Recycled as Political Contributions | Newsweek Periscope | Newsweek.com
- Possible Link Between Dam and China Quake
- On Arab TV Network, Obama Urges Dialogue - NYTimes.com
-
pages
-
blogroll
-
Contributors
-
criticism
-
les choses j'aime
-
news and politics
-
theory
-
tags
advertising aggregation althusser amazon american culture anticipation apple bdh biden blogging brown university Bush campaign canvass chicago tribune colin powell criticism design dumb election '08 empire endorsement epistemology first amendment FOX ideology internet journalism media megyn kelly new hampshire new media news and politics new yorker nyt obama palin philosophy psychoanalysis race travel video the vote voting voting rights writing -
subscribe
-
meta