The Great U-Turn

Robert Reich Robert Reich's blog
In the 1950s and 1960s, the richest 1 percent took home 9 to 10 percent of total income. Today the top 1 percent gets more than 20 percent.

Aida Flash Mob

How many ways could you arrive at a flash performance of Verdi's Aida? Start with a violinist on a Harley ...

The Story of American Folk Music

This telling begins with John Lomax and Huddie Ledbetter, then moves on to Woody Guthrie, the seeds of the protest movement, Pete Seeger and left politics.

Kids for Cash

Documentary: the true story of a judge who harvested cash from sending kids who came before him to prison.

Creation Science 101

To understand creation science, you should get straight the difference between a cynic and a hypocrite.

A Quarter Century Without a Raise

Gregory N. Heires The New Crossroads
It is time to raise the sub-minimum wage. The tipped wage of restaurant workers has been stuck at $2.13 an hour since 1991. A proposed bill in Congress would raise the minimum wage to $10.10 by 2016 and the sub-minimum wage to $7.10 by 2019.

Spheres

M. Wuerker amuniversal.com

The Third Party That's Winning

Sarah Jaffe In These Times
With new strategies, the Working Families Party is shaking up the two-party system.Bertha Lewis knows perhaps better than anyone else how hard those fights can be. But she thinks they're worth it. "Sometimes, in years past, you couldn't tell a Democrat from a Republican. No one wanted to talk about race; no one wanted to talk poverty. This conversation that we're having nationally about inequality is because [groups like WFP] kept to our principles and our ideas...' "