Bloomberg Beats Democracy
Nicholas von Hoffman : Michael Bloomberg
New York's City Council grants Mayor Michael Bloomberg the opportunity to run for a third term. He'll probably win, but will New Yorkers?
2008
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Notes on a Scandal
JoAnn Wypijewski : Media Analysis
The Spitzer affair's obvious rationality continues to elude the therapists, sexperts and pundits for whom shame is the game.
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Spitzer's Shame is Wall Street's Gain
Robert Scheer : White-Collar Crime
Why should we get all worked up over the revelation that the New York governor paid for sex?
2007
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Showdown at the DMV
The debate in New York State over driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants became a proxy for the unsettled issue of immigration reform.
2005
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The Power of Fear
Jill Lepore's New York Burning paints a realistic portrait of a purported slave rebellion in 1741 and the hysteria that followed, a harrowing lesson of how abusers of power become haunted by the nightmare of retribution.
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Brand Hillary
Greg Sargent : Democratic Party
Crafting a politics uniquely her own, she's making her mark on the Democratic Party.
2004
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Talking With Anthony Papa
Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow : Drug Policy/Drug War
He is using his art to publicize the injustice of the drug laws that put him away.
2002
2001
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Corporate Welfare Spoils
It would be hard to script a more brazen corporate giveaway than a billion-dollar donation to the emblem of global capitalism.
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He Has a Dream
Scott Sherman : African-Americans
Al Sharpton's leadership role in the black community is secure; his challenge now is to expand his constituency beyond that base.
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA. (13mb mp3)
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