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 Robert Reich, Op-Ed: With a more equitable and traditional distribution of wealth, far more Americans would have a fair chance of influencing politics. As the great jurist Louis Brandeis once said, "we can have a democracy or we can have great wealth in the hands of a comparative few, but we cannot have both." Alternatively, inequality wouldn't be as much of a problem if we had strict laws limiting political spending or, at the very least, disclosing who was contributing what. |
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 Igor Volsky, News Report: In his interview with ABC, Romney also refused to weigh into the controversy surrounding the outsourcing of Olympic uniforms to China. "I'm not going to get into the uniform issue," he said. "There are big issues associated with the Olympics: the security of the games, the readiness of our athletes and that's what I'm going to focus on, hopefully when I get to cheer on the people who are going to be supporting and representing our country." |
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 Isaiah J. Poole, Op-Ed: "This is not a back-door way to get out of the work requirement," said Elizabeth Lower-Basch, a senior policy analyst at the Center for Law and Social Policy. Instead, the explicitly states that the agency "is interested in more efficient or effective means to promote employment entry, retention, advancement, or access to jobs that offer opportunities for earnings and advancement that will allow participants to avoid dependence on government benefits." |
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 Judith Scherr, News Analysis: "Hundreds of cities around the United States have laws advocates say unfairly target the homeless, including bans on sitting, lying, begging and placing objects on the sidewalk. Other laws, such as prohibitions to loitering, drinking alcohol in public, smoking and jaywalking, are applied to this population selectively, homeless advocates say. Two years ago, San Francisco banned sitting on all city sidewalks. But the law hasn't stopped the practice." |
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 Alexander Cockburn, Op-Ed: "In spite of the president's insistence that our very civilization is at stake, the privileged aren't flocking to the flag. The war is being fought by Other People's Children. The war is impersonal for the very people to whom it should be most personal. If the children of the nation's elites were facing enemy fire without body armor, riding through gantlets of bombs in unarmored Humvees, fighting desperately in an increasingly hostile environment because of arrogant and incompetent civilian leadership, then those problems might well find faster solutions." |
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 John Bonifaz, News Analysis: Hundreds of resolutions similar to the one approved in California last week have already been passed in cities and towns throughout the nation, including the cities of Boston, Los Angeles, New York, and Seattle. Eleven state attorneys general have joined the call. More than 1,000 business leaders are on board. More than a dozen amendment bills related to Citizens United are now pending in the U.S. Congress. |
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 Justin Elliott, News Report: In a motion filed Tuesday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the broadcasters' trade group said that if the new FCC rule goes into effect, broadcasters "will suffer irreparable harm … because the rule compels television stations to post the prices for specific advertisements to a public website immediately after the sales occur." The motion also argues that the FCC has "engaged in arbitrary and capricious decision making by disregarding the competitive harm that is likely to result." |
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 Amy Goodman, Video Interview: "Green Party members from around the world have joined people from across the United States for the organization's 2012 national convention in Baltimore. We discuss the Green Party's global reach with Dr. Joachim Denkinger, deputy secretary general of the Greens Group in the European Parliament, and Justine McCabe of the International Committee of the Green Party of the United States." |
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 William J. Astore, Op-Ed: What are we to make of a medal named for prowess in "warfare," especially when drone operators are completely isolated from the battlefield? For that matter, how can war by remote control be recognized and celebrated as a "distinguished" form of "warfare"? Wouldn't it be more honest (and perhaps even more honorable) to name this new decoration the "Drone Medal," with all that name implies? |
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 Special Coverage: "As we enter Day 300 of the Occupy movements the protests have spread not only across the country but all over the globe. Thousands of activists have descended on Wall Street these past weeks as part of the #OccupyWallStreet protest organized by several action groups. What follows is a live video stream and live Twitter feed of this event." |
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 Mark Engler, Op-Ed: The scene, echoing a pivotal sequence in the 1979 film "Norma Rae," is not a union recruiting pitch but instead is part of a television ad for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, from a campaign called "Take Back Your Summer." Other big advertisers like McDonald's and Coca-Cola are also tapping into a sense of frustration among workers to sell products portrayed as minor luxuries. |
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 Chris Hamby, News Report: Black lung was supposed to have been eradicated after a 1969 law forced coal companies to control the amount of dust miners breathe. After declining from the 1970s through the mid-1990s, the disease has reappeared, in part because of flaws in MSHA regulations. The agency proposed a rule in 2010 that would close some loopholes but leave much of the dust sampling in the hands of coal companies, preserving a self-policing system critics and government panels have recommended eliminating for years. |
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