Christian Parenti (NYU): Rethinking the State: Shadow Socialism the Age of Environmental Crisis. Peter K. Jonason (Western Sydney) and Laura K. Dane (Douglas): How Beliefs Get in the Way of the Acceptance of Evolutionary Psychology. Christopher A.D. Charles (West Indies) and Gina Philogene (Sarah Lawrence): The Representations of Race in the United States’ Censuses from 1790-2010. Emily Badger on what the U.S. economy would look like if racial inequality didn’t exist. Here is your complete guide to what’s happening in Ferguson. From the Partnership for a New American Economy, the Latino Coalition, and the American Principles in Action Latino Partnership, a report on Shared Values: How Immigrants Align with the Republican and Democratic Parties on Social Values Issues. Adrian Carrasquillo on how the immigrant rights movement got Obama to save millions from deportations. Todd VanDerWerff on five ways Sesame Street changed the world. Nancy Fraser on democracy’s crisis: “It is at bottom a crisis of capitalism — or rather, of our current, historically specific form of capitalism: financialized, globalizing, neoliberal capitalism”. Typewriters are back, and we have Edward Snowden to thank. For decades, the idiot pundit class has pushed Democrats to the right after every loss — it's not working this time. Conservative pundits might like Obama more if he really were a caudillo. As a young boy, Tom Fassbender remembers being fascinated by Easter Island while watching In Search Of, but he never thought he'd have the chance to actually visit the place — then his family decided to travel around the world. @MattBruenig how do you find the parody accounts???
