Politics

A guest post by Danny Martin — “Going to college is a dream that promises intellectual excitement and creative thinking,” Jerry Brown said in a statement. “The Dream Act benefits us all by giving top students a chance to improve their lives and the lives of all of us.” This is so true, just not for undocumented immigrants. We all want to work with people that are…

Today marks the one-month anniversary of the launch of the Occupy Wall Street protests. Among other concerns, the unifying issues are social and economic inequality, corporate greed, and the convoluted relationship of corporate money, lobbyists, and the government. Although the protests have been largely dismissed by conservative media as extremist and even anti-American, these demonstrations have expanded to…

A discussion on political discourse in the media and the 10 highest-earning political figures of 2010. — Remember what it was like when our perspective of the outside world was shaped by the nightly news on three television networks, a few national papers (maybe), and AM radio? Me neither. From the birth of the 24-hour news cycle (thanks, Ted Turner) through the evolution of digital media, we are now provided with limitless opinions, conjecture, and conflict-laden discourse. Not surprisingly, politics and social issues carry the most weight on the airwaves, in the dailies, and all over the blogosphere.