Don't let right-wing astroturfers scare Americans into silence
ST. LOUIS — While a healthy, public debate around health care reform positively reinforces our proud democratic traditions, heckling, yelling, disrupting and even assaulting those you disagree with doesn't. But that's exactly what's happening here in St. Louis and across the country.
Beware: Astroturfing harmful to democracy
Mob rule sweeps America, Big Insurance hires storm troopers Athletes complain about it. Astroturf causes injuries. And now the fake grass spread on many a field across the country has a new meaning. “Astroturfing” and “Astroturf groups” simulate grassroots organizing. And beware: These far-right ideologically driven groups, like the name “Astroturf” implies, are phony. And they cause injury to the body politic.
Health insurance companies send me birthday greetings so why I am nervous?
I'm turning 65 soon and the only people who have sent me birthday greetings so far are private, for-profit health insurance companies.
The ongoing danger of nuclear war
This August, when hundreds of Hiroshima Day vigils and related antinuclear activities occur around the United States, many Americans will wonder at their relevance. After all, the nuclear danger that characterized the Cold War is now far behind us, isn't it?
Lonesome Hobo Economics Who should pay for universal health care?
Who should pay for universal health care? We all should, right? Or, shouldn't it be free?
