Favorite Blogging and Online Media Pieces

HuffPost Pieces on Google Monopoly

Racial and Economic Profiling in Google Ads: A Preliminary Investigation (Updated) (Sept 20, 2011)
The Cost of Lost Privacy: How Google and Datamining Drive Economic Inequality in Our Nation (July 15 2011)
Window into Google’s Monopoly Maneuvers: More Internal Skyhook Emails (May 11, 2011)
You’re Not Google’s Customer — You’re the Product: Antitrust in a Web 2.0 World (Mar. 29 2011)
The Case for Antitrust Action Against Google (Mar. 14 2011)

General TPMCafe Politics Pieces

Rushed Phone Deregulation Bill Delayed by Advocates in New Jersey (Mar. 22, 2011)
Progressives (and Obama) are Doing Better Than We Think — and We Won’t Know What We’ve Got ‘Til It’s Gone (November 30, 2009)
The Tyranny of the Tiny White States (July 28, 2009)
Obama Stands up for State Authority; Overturns Bush’s Supression of States’ Rights (May 22, 2009)
Smart People Who Believe Dumb Things (Apr. 14, 2009)
Obama Moves to the Populist (July 9, 2008)
Obama: How Race Card Protects Class Privilege (Mar. 8, 2008)
How about Holding Corporations Responsible for Results? (Apr. 4, 2007)
So What if Mitt Wants A Person of Faith as President? (Feb. 18, 2007)
A Good Night for Progressives (Nov. 8, 2006)
Ulysses Grant: Our Greatest President? (July 24, 2006)
Fighting Poverty in India (Jan. 6, 2006)
Restore the Estate Tax- Help Harriet Miers! (Oct. 21, 2005)
Race, Gender and Populism (Aug. 4, 2005)

Progressive Organizing Strategy

Defending Van Jones from the McCarthyites (Sept. 4, 2009)
It’s About Power, Not Ideas (Sep. 27, 2007)
What Do Organizers Do? (Apr. 7, 2007)
Why the Aid and Comfort to the Enemy? (Dec. 1, 2005)

On Law and Judicial Review

Reapportionment Cases: More Important than Labor Law Reform (Nov. 18, 2005)
DeWine Dirty Campaign Ploy: Jokes About Workers Rights (Nov. 8, 2005)
Fighting Alito: Why Chittister is the Key Case (Nov. 3, 2005)
Scalito on Workers Rights (Nov. 1, 2005)
Why Courts Should Not Defend Darwin (Oct. 14, 2005)
** Roberts and the Business Lobby (Aug. 26, 2005)
O’Connor No Moderate for Working People (July 11, 2005)

On the Financial And Economic Crisis

Easing the Burden on Unemployed in this Recession a Progressive Victory (December 1, 2009)
** TARP Beginning to Turn a Profit? Lessons in Government Taking an Equity Stake (Aug. 26, 2009)
In Praise of the Blank Check (Dec. 22, 2008)
Electoral College Killed Auto Industry Aid Bill – And Michigan House Approves National Popular Vote Bill to Kill Electoral College (Dec. 16, 2008)
A “Bailout” is Cheaper than the Status Quo (Sept 23, 2008)
Rightwing: Housing Bubble Opportunity to Fleece “Stupid” (Nov. 5, 2005)

On Health Care Fight

A Victory that Will Breed More Victories (March 22, 2010)
Why the Health Care Bill Will Destroy the Conservative Movement (December 22, 2009)
** Senate Bill: Two-thirds of Newly Insured in Public Plans (Nov. 18, 2009)
Maybe We Need “Birth Panels”- Promoting Less Costly, Safer Births (Apr. 13, 2009)
Mandates versus Affordability (February 27, 2008)
Federal Delusion: DC Won’t Deliver Health Care for All (July 12, 2007)
Action in the States- Why the Feds will not Drive Health Care Reform (Apr. 11, 2007)
More Attacks on Employer-Based Health Care (Nov. 13, 2005)
DC Wonks Undermine the Anti-WalMart Movement (Oct. 29, 2005)
Letting Wal-Mart Off the Hook (Oct. 28, 2005)

On Housing and Urban Policy

** The Coalition for Mass Transit (Jan 2, 2009)
Quiet Suicide of Urban Liberalism (Oct. 11, 2005)
Blue Regions: Economic Engines of Economy (Aug. 12, 2005)
Housing and Working Families (July 27, 2005)

Labor and Consumer Rights in Tech Industry

Occupy Verizon: Wall Street Protesters Target Telcom Company as VeriGreedy (Oct 23, 2011)
Steve Jobs and Workers’ Rights (Aug. 29 2011)
New Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Should Regulate Online Advertising of Financial Products (Aug 18, 2011)
Pro-Labor Progressives Should Support The AT&T – T-Mobile Merger (June 23, 2011)
Phone Deregulation Hitting Low-Income Families Across Country, but Advocates Stall Bill in New Jersey (April 21, 2011)
Internet Retailer Taxation Highlights Hypocrisy of Rightwing “States Rights”(Apr. 14, 2011)

On Trade, Immigration and Labor

Arizona: Failed State, Failed Immigration Policies (May 3, 2010)
Fair Trade, Immigrant Rights, Free Labor (May 14, 2008)
Bashing China (and the US) from the Left – and Below (May 7, 2008)
The Costs of the Brain Drain (Nov. 16, 2005)
China and Trade: Applying Pressure for Labor Rights (Nov. 12, 2005)
“Free Trade” is Not about Freedom (Nov. 10, 2005)
Free Trade with Rich Rapists (Sept. 25, 2005)
The Border is the Color Line of the 21st Century (Aug. 18, 2005)
An Immigration Solution: Sell Green Cards (Aug. 13, 2005)
Against Lind’s Anti-immigrant Social Democracy (Aug. 12, 2005)
Trade Policy and the AFL-CIO Split (Aug. 3, 2005)

Labor Law and Labor Law Reform

What’s Left Without Card Check? (July 17, 2009)
Card Check is More Democratic than NLRB Elections (Nov. 13, 2008)
Union “Harassment” and Employer Intimidation (Mar. 6, 2007)
BIG Win for Employees at Supreme Court (June 23, 2006)
Anti-Unionism is the Date Rape of Corporate Crime (Dec. 6 2005)
The Law on Secondary Strikes (Oct. 18, 2005)
How Courts Shut Down Union Free Speech (Oct. 14, 2005)
** The Bad Joke that is the Bush NLRB (Sept. 13, 2005)
Where’s the ACLU? (Aug. 17, 2005)
Meet a Work Buddy, Get Fired (July 28, 2005)

Other Labor Posts

The Apparent Unmotivated Idiocy of Labor Union Members, Especially Teachers (Sept. 1, 2009)
What Part of Illegal Don’t Conservatives Understand — or Why do They Ignore Wage Theft (May 13, 2009)

What If Charter School Teachers Don’t Think a Non-Union Workplace is so Great? (Jan. 16, 2009)
Myth of the Reagan Union Vote (Nov. 12, 2008)
Lock in a Progressive Majority: Pass Labor Law Reform (Nov. 11, 2008)
Southern Gulag: How 20th Century Slave Labor Undermined the US Labor Movement (Sept. 1, 2008)
Do Blogs Take Labor Issues Seriously? (July 10, 2008)
Bad History on the Minimum Wage (Oct. 25, 2005)
What Makes Unions Strong? (Oct. 20, 2005)
Joss Whedon- Union Hero (Oct. 6, 2005)
Clinton’s Pro-Labor Politics (Sept. 23, 2005)
The 20-Year Wage War in Louisiana (Sept. 22, 2005)
Is Davis-Bacon Racist? (Sept. 15, 2005)
What Unions are Doing Right (Sept. 5, 2005)
Solar in Cali- GOP Wedges Itself (Aug. 30, 2005)
What to Think About the Northwest Strike? (Aug. 24, 2005)
Comparable Worth Still Needed (Aug 9, 2005)
Anti-Discrimination Laws No Substitute for Unions (Aug. 4, 2005)
Plame, Labor and US Foreign Policy- Or Why Exposing CIA Agents Isn’t the Key Crime (July 17, 2005)
Manufacturing vs. Service Union Organizing (July 13, 2005)
Relative Success of Sweeney vs. More Radical Goals (July 12, 2005)
CostCo or How Unions Help Non-Union Workers (July 10, 2005)
Undemocratic Compared to What? (July 8, 2005)
Gompers and the Labor Left (July 6, 2005)
Why Progressives are Fools to Ignore Labor Issues (July 5, 2005)

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