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Not surprisingly, this New York Times article, written in the paper's time honored method of recourse to authority, ignores the more serious social implications of the economic restructuring that it describes. The reporters, Peter Goodman and Jack Healy, walk up to the edge of the water by recognizi...

After the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (your neoliberal government at work), some thought that one of the (intended) benefits was that racial politics and welfare would be decoupled. Or at the very least, the Democratic Party would no longer ...

As related here by Yves Smith at naked capitalism , President Obama has decided to place Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and National Economic Council chair Lawrence Summers in charge of overseeing the extension of federal financial assistance to the automobile industry. Smith describes the pitf...

In this country, we do things differently. We have "show trials" without the requisite executions. We have a bailout with little real stimulus (notwithstanding Tory hysterics). We have the slow nationalization of the banks, even as the manic drive toward privatization and cuts in public services con...

Perhaps, it is a little too late to post on this subject. The House has already approved a version of President Obama's stimulus plan, and the Senate will act soon upon another one. There has been a great deal of comment by people from nearly all political persuasions, as well as upon blogs that foc...

In a recent post, I suggested that "it feels as though the field of Latin American cultural and literary studies has been in the doldrums for, what, perhaps a decade or more?" Alberto Moreiras responds vigorously:I don’t agree with you about the doldrums years. I think in fact they were the years ...

From Thomas Friedman in many media outlets, including our own beleaguered N&R: Walking back from the inauguration of our first black president, I saw an African-American street vendor wearing a home-stenciled T-shirt that pretty well captured the moment – and then some. It said: “Missio...

I caught fleeting glimpses of the inauguration yesterday morning, while my young son angrily exclaimed his wish to watch Oscar on DVD. Apparently, he preferred Sesame Street to the departing Bush and the incoming Obama.Filtered through the media, the event came across as yet instance of its inabilit...