Issue #307
Clueless rich kids on the rise: How millennial aristocrats will destroy our future
Prevailing neoliberal ideology, which perverts
Prevailing neoliberal ideology, which perverts
King County Long march into Seattle for a living wage A “Long March” for a living wage took 100-plus hearty demonstrators from a hotel at SeaTac to Seattle City Hall Thursday, coinciding with a national day of action in which fast food workers marched off the job in 100 cities across America. The movement scored a…
2014 House GOP hopefuls are farther right than the incumbents One nominee proposed reclassifying single parenthood as child abuse. Another suggested that four “blood moons” would herald “world-changing, shaking-type events” and said Islam was not a religion but a “complete geopolitical structure” unworthy of tax exemption. Still another labeled Hillary Rodham Clinton “the Antichrist.” Congressional Republicans…
King County Study: Sodo arena has $732M in hidden subsidies for Hansen Seattle taxpayers would end up subsidizing the proposed Sodo sports arena by nearly $732 million, according to an analysis by a Bellevue business valuation company. The group that commissioned the study said Tuesday that this situation would violate Initiative 91, which Seattle voters passed…
(Daily Clips will not publish Thursday December 19. The editor is at work on another project.) King County Sawant: ‘2014 is going to be the year of $15 an hour in Seattle’ It wasn’t so long ago that Kshama Sawant might call a press conference at which little or no press would show up. Not anymore. The…
How the Cliven Bundy saga exposes America’s most enduring myth When the anti-government rancher Cliven Bundy stepped before the cameras to “tell you one more thing I know about the Negro,” he also stepped into far-reaching and noxious American historical myths about self-sufficiency, race, and rugged individualism. Bundy’s actual words—delivered in a Western drawl by…
Interests, ideology and climate There are three things we know about man-made global warming. First, the consequences will be terrible if we don’t take quick action to limit carbon emissions. Second, in pure economic terms the required action shouldn’t be hard to take: emission controls, done right, would probably slow economic growth, but not by…