Marc Jampole: How the wealthy are taking over the United States
We’re witnessing a putsch by the wealthy against the government of the United States. Since the publication of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century, the mainstream news media has … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: American media trivializes Paris climate talks
Mainstream media trivializes Paris climate talks by focusing on Obama’s legacy Have you noticed that most mainstream news media coverage of the climate change summit in France stresses that any … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: Dispatch from the War on Christmas
Another skirmish on the culture wars broke out this week as right-wing Christians flooded the social and mainstream media complaining that the specialty coffee cup into which the part-time, low-paid … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: Superhero Americans
In thinking about our troops in Syria, remember Viet Nam and how quickly 50 can become 500,000. I wonder whether the Obama Administration has been watching too many superhero movies. … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: Nine Little Minds
The grand openings of both the World Series and the GOP debates overhype events as grandiose and historic battles of titans. Channel surfers exercise their itchy thumbs for three reasons: … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: Like Republicans, the Democrats mostly agreed with each other in their first debate.
There can be no doubt that the best moment of the debate between the five Democratic candidates for president came early when ex-Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley verbally slapped around Vermont … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: 10 more innocent victims sacrificed to a misreading of the 2nd amendment
As of this writing, the unanswered question is how Chris Harper Mercer obtained the gun he used to kill 10 people at Umpqua Community College. The police easily reconstructed a … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: The Republicans who would be king
The longer GOP candidates debated, the more they agreed with each other, except on Iran & taxes We won’t know for a few days—and maybe weeks—who won Wednesday’s debate between … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: Germany does the right thing for Syrian refugees and for the German economy
On the surface it seems inconsistent that the same country, Germany, that submitted Greece to such harsh punishment is opening its arms so generously to Syrian refugees, agreeing to take … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: Thank God for the Atom Bomb?
Wall Street Journal writer says “Thank God for Atom Bomb,” frees candidates to say anything without fear of embarrassment. Bret Stephens, a frequent opinion columnist for the Wall Street Journal … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: Papal encyclical puts Pope on side of progressives, but ignores need for family planning
The Democratic Party would do well to strip the religious references and theological discussions from Pope Francis’s recent papal encyclical on the environment and place what’s left into its 2016 … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: The New Jim Crow
“The New Jim Crow” has recreated the legal racism that existed before the Civil Rights movement As Michelle Alexander details in The New Jim Crow, her seminal 2010 study of … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: Mass incarceration one arrest at a time
We should end mass incarceration laws and spend the savings on education and social welfare programs. In some ways, the term “mass incarceration” is a misnomer. The term immediately conjures … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: By killing Boston Marathon bomber, we stoop to his level of barbarism and depravity
The jury that sentenced Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death had a choice. They could have imprisoned Tsarnaev for life. But these 12 supposedly civilized men and women chose … Continue reading →