The ‘Crony Capitalist Blowout’

Bill Moyers Bill Moyers and Company
The extraordinary rise in wealth and power of the very rich during this era of unregulated greed

On Our Own or All Together?

Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon Jacobin
The burgeoning popular literature about how to navigate the “new old age”

Super Bowl Is As American As .... ?

By number of viewers, the Super Bowl is a cross section of America. From the faces in the ads, not always. The first video below challenges us to rethink who we are as a nation. It ran as a Super Bowl ad -- in a few select markets. The second video never ran as a Super Bowl ad, but it does fix some things that a Super Bowl ad that ran nationwide (third video) got wrong. See if you can spot the difference. And then help to spread this discussion by emailing, tweeting and sharing these videos, using the links below. -- video moderator  

"Aspiring Americans" is an ad that played during the 2013 Super Bowl on broadcast and cable television in a few select markets. 

We saw Dodge's "God Made A Farmer" ad and we thought it didn't reflect the whole picture. So we gave it a bit of a fix.

'Farmer' Super Bowl ad sponsored by Dodge.

Friday Nite Videos -- Feb 8, 2013

Video Moderator Portside
How the Super Bowl defines what it means to be an American: dueling ads. Stephen Colbert wrestles with bipartisan immigration reform. Republicans think CIA nominee Brennan gives the public too much information. The Union of Concerned Scientists says we can cut oil consumption in half, and who's standing in the way. Beasts of the Southern Wild imagines a surreal realm where little girls and mythical animals coexist.