Paul Phillips

LATEST ARTICLES ( 506 )

• Countering the Right: Insidious Koch Brothers Attack on Detroit Bankruptcy...

  

  A prime example of the absurd economic inequality in the U.S. has reared its ugly head as the Koch brothers apparently got bored and have decided to throw... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Kill Credit Suisse!

  

  In a great op-ed in The Atlantic by James Kwak, Kwak argues that Credit Suisse, a Swiss bank that plead guilty to helping rich Americans evade income taxes for... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• McConnell Uses Tried and True

  

  Senator and GOP Minority Leader Mitch McConnell seems to be on his way to a landslide victory against challenger and Tea Party favorite Matt Bevin today in the... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Countering the Right: Ex-CIA Official’s Bungled Attempt at Discrediting Edward...

  

  One thing that continues to hold true for the intelligence community in regards to the Edward Snowden revelations: they will never stop trying to demonize him... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• McConnell Tied With Grimes

  

  As reported in Louisville’s own Courier-Journal, the latest The NBC News-Marist Poll finds that Senate Minority-Leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Case Against Blackwater and How They’re Getting Away With It

  

  In 2007, according to an article in today’s NYT, operatives of Blackwater Worldwide (a company providing civilian contractors employed by the U.S. Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Sen. Rand Paul for Easing Voter Restrictions

  

  Living in Kentucky, I get a lot of news of Republican and Tea Party favorite Sen. Rand Paul, and it’s usually disappointing. But in a meeting in Memphis, TN... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Hillary Attacks Gun Culture

  

  A report in The Guardian on a recent speaking engagement featuring former Sec. of State, and potential Presidential Candidate, Hillary Clinton at the National... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Climate Change Report Destined to Become Politically Charged

  

  The NYT reports on the National Climate Assessment that was released today which concludes present and future catastrophic weather events in the U.S. Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Are The Poor Better Off?

  

  Another great article in the NYT that was written by Annie Lowrey explains that though many poor families have more material wealth in terms of TV’s,... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Job Reports May Often Be Misjudged

  

  A great article in the NYT’s “Upshot” section with cool graphs reports that the monthly job numbers, and other economic indicators from the government and... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Should Police Be Able To Search Your Cellphone?

  

  A great op-ed by Yochai Benkler on the arguments heard today by the Supreme Court regarding two cases revolving around the question of whether or not police... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Piketty On The “American Dream”

  

  A great op-ed in The Guardian by Heidi Moore on Thomas Piketty’s book “Capital in the 21st Century” which has made Piketty a “rock-star economist”. Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Countering the Right: Two Ludicrous Op-ed Claims by Conservatives for the Day

  

  Oh, the things the right will say to fool people!First up, Robert J. Samuelson gave us his take on a new book detailing the perils of economic inequality by,... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Human Rights Before Animal Rights

  

  An op-ed in The Guardian by Sadhbh Walshe brings up a point I’ve been thinking about lately, namely, why does it seem violations against animal rights are... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Sign-Up GOP, Win A Gun

  

  An article in the NYT reports that GOP candidates for Congress are conducting “gun sweepstakes,” i.e., running “gun giveaways” (like raffles) for those who... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Working Poor and Raising Minimum Wage

  

  A powerful argument by Charles M. Blow in the NYT on why the minimum wage should be increased with the rising numbers of the working poor in the “Land of... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Will Iraq Fracture?

  

  A great piece in the CSM asking will the country of Iraq fracture into separate nations that will be determined by ethnicity, religion, or simple economic... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Pushing Against The Surveillance Innocent Muslims

  

  The NYPD announced yesterday that it was closing it’s “Demographic Unit.”If you don’t know about this task force, it was first reported by the AP in 2011 that... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• U.S. Investment in High Finance

  

  A good piece by NYT op-ed columnist, and Nobel Prize Winner, Paul Krugman on how our government’s investments in making things easier for high finance Wall... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY