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Capitalism is killing the middle class
feature Few like to admit it, but globalization and technology have triggered an economic revolution that’s “hostile to the middle-class majority,” said Chrystia Freeland at NYTimes.com.
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Buying local is bad for the planet
feature The “first-world food fetishes” of the Whole Foods crowd aren’t always good for the environment, and they hurt the world’s poor, said Charles Kenny at Foreign Policy.
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America, the chosen nation
feature On what do politicians base their claims about America’s divine role? asked Andrew Bacevich at the Los Angeles Times.
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No spring for Egypt’s Christians
feature Egypt’s 8 million Coptic Christians have faced increased persecution and mob violence, and 100,000 Copts have already fled the country, said Ross Douthat at The New York Times.
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Viewpoint: George Packer
feature From Foreign Affairs: “Inequality creates a lopsided economy, which leaves the rich with so much money that they can binge on speculation, and leaves the middle class...
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Will Hillary switch to vice president?
feature Hillary would ensure that Obama benefited from a large gender gap, and would help build support among blue-collar independents, said Jonathan Alter at Bloomberg.com.
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Um, uh, what I mean is…
feature What Obama suffers from is the classic “intellectual stammer”—a hesitancy that “signals a brain that is moving so fast the mouth can’t keep up," said Meghan Daum in the Los Angeles Times.
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Dehumanizing Hispanics as ‘illegals’
feature It’s “the latest in a long line of euphemisms that politicians use to signal their antipathy to a reviled racial or ethnic group, in this case, Latinos,” said Peter Beinart at TheDailyBeast.com.
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Viewpoint: Scott Adams
feature From Dilbert.com: “You are what you learn. If all you know is how to be a gang member, that’s what you’ll be, at least until you...
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Zombies are feasting on our fears
feature Zombies are a perfect metaphor for the nation’s economic “horror show,” capturing white-collar workers’ worst fears, said Torie Bosch at Slate.com.
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Shed no tears for Qaddafi
feature For all the suffering the tyrant inflicted over decades, he suffered “perhaps an hour of torment” and a bullet to the head, said Charles Krauthammer at The Washington Post.
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Steve Jobs’s final moments
feature Just before he closed his eyes for the last time, the man who spent his life in search of beauty looked past those of us at his bedside at something only he could see, said Mona Simpson at The New York Times.
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The GOP’s search for Conan
feature Romney just doesn’t reflect the “rage and paranoia” that have deformed the GOP since Barack Obama’s election, said Michael Medved at TheDailyBeast.com.
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Viewpoint: Peter Wehner
feature From CommentaryMagazine.com: “One of the GOP presidential candidates (Ron Paul) believes the United States is responsible for triggering the 9/11 attacks. Another (Rick Santorum) has said...
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