by PPJC Admin2 | June 5, 2023 | Analysis
The Target company’s capitulation to homophobes and transphobes is a testament to the dangers of relying on corporations to uphold social justice. By Sonali Kolhatkar Economy for All Just days before the start of June, celebrated around the country and world as “Pride...
by PPJC Admin2 | May 24, 2023 | Analysis
The militarized portion of this budget is by far its largest single component. And yet the same legislators demanding billions in discretionary savings have vowed to exempt that militarized spending from any cuts. Instead, they’ve targeted the much smaller...
by PPJC Admin2 | May 23, 2023 | Analysis, News
At stake in all of these cases is who pays for the staggering cost of a changing climate. The plaintiffs accuse the companies of lying to the public about their products’ risks. Patrick Parenteau, Vermont Law & Graduate School and John Dernbach, Widener University...
by PPJC Admin2 | May 17, 2023 | Analysis
He compared their debates to “hearin’ the hens a cacklin’ – and a runnin’ out to the barn.” Despite the scene’s being “loud, noisy, and plenty entertaining,” the result was “no eggs.” By Mark Allan Jackson, Middle Tennessee State University The debt ceiling debate...
by PPJC Admin2 | May 16, 2023 | Analysis
“Billionaires spending a billion dollars on a shopping spree for democracy should wake us all up to the threat posed by nearly unlimited wealth applied without limits to our elections,” said the head of Americans for Tax Fairness. By Jessica Corbett...
by PPJC Admin2 | May 15, 2023 | Analysis
Last week’s town-hall debacle is just more evidence of the dangers inherent in a commercial media system that mainstreams lying demagogues for profit. By Tim Karr FreePress.net The pageantry of lies that passed for a town hall last week was yet another low point in...