...“do a Cameron;” Cameron and Osborne were the toast of Very Serious People everywhere. Now Britain is officially in double-dip recession, and has achieved the remarkable feat of doing worse this time around than it did in the 1930s.” Let’s take a look at the UK now: from Why Is the U.K. Double-Dipping?, The Atlantic Magazine After recovering at a similar pace to the United States, the UK has fallen into a double dip-recession. Before you blame...
...oters this year is of course jobs, jobs, and jobs. Could you tell us about your jobs plan? JS: Yes, we call it the Green New Deal. This isn’t a hypothetical, it’s based on the New Deal that got us out of the Depression in the 1930s and what it did was directly create jobs, not provide tax breaks in the hopes that they might indirectly create jobs. We would directly create jobs in local communities, who would be empowered to decide what kind of jo...
...use, and a cause of anyone who respects peoples’ national rights and their rights to live in freedom and security. Both Israelis and Palestinians have acted irrationally in pursuit of these goals, be it Irgun terrorism in the 1930s or Palestinian uprising (Intifada) terrorism in the early 2000s. Both sides, too, have made some bold efforts to achieve peace, in such historic agreements including the Oslo Accords and the second Camp David talks. Bu...
...nions, largely composed of factory workers, were founded by people who perceived that they were underpaid and decided to do something about it. The first unions in the United States essentially created the middle class in the 1930s, when they demanded higher wages and a greater share of the profit from industrial employers. The 1950s, when the proportion of unionized workers in the work force peaked at 35 percent, marked the halcyon days for Amer...
...ns]—sort of beating ceaselessly back against the current in many ways. How do you convince people to actually go in for that? RP: I’m a New Dealer, personally. For me, the high point in American political history comes in the 1930s and comes with the rationalization and the humanization of working conditions in America and the great rise of the middle class that comes after that. And it’s true—I think there’s an old-fashioned impulse in me that r...
...mmunities with a heckler’s veto affecting the rest of the Nation.” As of 2007, COPA still has not passed the test of the Federal Courts largely because of its breadth, pushing for a returning to obscenity law standards of the 1930s that covered all material pertaining to the “prurient” interest, soft and hard-core alike. In the mean time other less restrictive regulations on Internet access to pornography, almost wholly focused on the protection...
...t or might not do in a given situation.” She asks, “How do you get people to understand that we may be in someway contributing to a situation now that we are easily able to judge when people let it happen, so to speak, in the 1930s? … It’s not only that we don’t connect the present to the past. It’s also that we don’t connect the present to ourselves.” In recent decades, historians have, no doubt, done tremendously important work recovering the v...
...in which the executioners placed themselves among their victims were exceedingly rare. As Susan Sontag pointed out, the shots may be more comparable to some of the photos of black lynching victims taken between the 1880s and 1930s, which show small-town Americans grinning beside the victim’s dangling body. Many of these pictures were made into postcards; like the Abu Ghraib photos, they were souvenirs which assumed an audience, and so implicated...
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