Author Archives: MZR

Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog, The jobs recovery is a complete and total myth. The percentage of the working age population in the United States that had a job in March 2013 was exactly the same … Continue reading →

March 25, 2013 By SARAH CONLY Brunswick, Me. WHY has there been so much fuss about New York City’s attempt to impose a soda ban, or more precisely, a ban on large-size “sugary drinks”? After all, people can still get … Continue reading →

March 15, 2013 Frank Bruni IT was too much to hope that after the white smoke rose and the TV anchors began nervously filling time and the cameras lingered for what seemed an eternity on that balcony over St. Peter’s … Continue reading →

Posted on Jan 20, 2013 By Chris Hedges The planet we have assaulted will convulse with fury. The senseless greed of limitless capitalist expansion will implode the global economy. The decimation of civil liberties, carried out in the name of … Continue reading →

January 19, 2013, 6:47 pm By JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ The re-election of President Obama was like a Rorschach test, subject to many interpretations. In this election, each side debated issues that deeply worry me: the long malaise into which the … Continue reading →

January 7, 2013 By FRANK BRUNI In the new movie “This is 40,” the writer and director Judd Apatow casts the arrival of life’s four-decade mark as a uniquely brutal crossroads, flagged by sputtering libido, suffocating commitments and curdled dreams. … Continue reading →

by Jeff Einstein, Thursday, December 20, 2012 8:29 AM I am at times overwhelmed with despair and sorrow by the murders in Connecticut.  They have affected me profoundly, reached deep into my being and gripped my heart with icy fingers … Continue reading →

December 10, 2012 By ROGER COHEN London RESEARCHING a family memoir, I recently read the magazine of my father’s high school in Johannesburg from the year he graduated, 1938. An editorial said: “The stresses set up by the social changes … Continue reading →

Romney may take the White House from President Obama without having to say anything more than this: Vote for me, I’m not him. NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Mike Lupica Published: Tuesday, November 6, 2012, 12:01 AM Updated: Tuesday, November 6, … Continue reading →

Posted: 11/05/2012 4:19 pm  ROBERT B. REICH,  The vitriol is worse is worse than I ever recall. Worse than the Palin-induced smarmy 2008. Worse than the swift-boat lies of 2004. Worse, even, than the anything-goes craziness of 2000 and its … Continue reading →