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(August 21) Lecture / Discussion Page - The Study of Politics and Human Nature
ReadingsLiberal Individualism and the Crisis of Citizenship - Bellah The Market As Prison - Lindblom
(August 28) Lecture / Discussion Page - Understanding and Critically Analyzing Political Theory
ReadingsHow Would You Change the Constitution? - Carroll Some Truths Are Not Self-Evident - Zinn
ReadingsAmerican Exceptionalism and the Politics of Fragmentation - Cohen / Rogers The Greatest Nation On Earth - Jensen
ReadingsUnequal Struggle - Berg How Corporations Run Congress: A Talk With Ryan Grim - Eskow
(September 25) Lecture / Discussion Page - Liberalism
ReadingsHave We Been Denying Our Human Nature for Four Hundred Years? - Parramore Presidential Dynasties - Phillips
(October 2) Lecture / Discussion Page - Conservatism
ReadingsThe Supremely Political Court - Parenti Corporations, the Law, and Democracy - Swidorski
(October 9) Lecture / Discussion Page - Marxism
ReadingsNo Easy Answers: James Q. Wilson on Bureaucracy, Crime, and Community - Eggers and O'Leary
(October 16) Lecture / Discussion Page - Darwinian Theories and Western Political Thought
ReadingsWhy Americans Still Don't Vote - Piven / Cloward The Political Compass
(October 23) Lecture / Discussion Page - Public Opinion, the Mass Media, and B.F. Skinner
ReadingsDemocracy and a Free Press - Croteau and Hoynes It's the Media, Stupid - McChesney / Nichols
(October 30) Lecture / Discussion Page - Interest Groups and Freud
ReadingsAfter the Deluge: Electoral Reform in the Wake of the Election of 2000 - Guinier Finding the Lost Voters - Sifry
(November 6) Lecture / Discussion Page - Political Parties and Sartre
ReadingsWhy Unions Matter - Bernard Reclaiming the Commons - Klein
ReadingsPublic Policymaking - Anderson Closing the Democracy Gap - Nader
(November 20) Lecture / Discussion Page - Legislative and Judicial Systems and Upanishadic Hinduism
ReadingsDoing It For Ourselves: Can Feminism Survive Class Polarization? - Ehrenreich Class Inequality and Democracy - Krugman
(November 27) Lecture / Discussion Page - International System Theories, Law, and Organizations
ReadingsWars of Terror - Chomsky The Logic of U.S. Intervention - Parenti
ReadingsNeo-Patriarchy and the Anti-Homosexual Agenda - Snyder Is Free Speech the Enemy of Democracy? - Sunstein
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Books / Articles / Reports / Documents / Websites (Conservative / Republican)The Political Compass The Rise and Fall of American Political Parties: 1790 - 2000 - Silbey Free Speech Requires Campaign Money - Smith The Republican Party Home Page Conservatives Against Trump - National Review Symposium The View From 1787 - Cost The Continuing Woes of the "Establishment" - Larison
Books / Articles / Reports / Documents / Websites (Liberal / Democrat)The Political Compass How the Little Guy Gets Crunched - Barlett and Steele Dollars and Votes - Clawson The Presidential Spectacle - Miroff The Democratic Party Home Page Can Hillary Clinton Convince Voters They're Not Settling? - Brownstein Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Nomination - Editorial Board - The New York Times Another Neocon Endorses Clinton, Calling Her '2016's Real Conservative' and 'the Candidate of the Status Quo' - Norton Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Albright Scold Young Women Backing Bernie Sanders - Rappeport
Books / Articles / Reports / Documents / Websites (Critical / Radical / Third Party)The Political Compass The Time is Now: To Defeat Both Trump and Clintonian Neoliberalism - Taylor Jill Stein, Green Party Presidential Candidate - Jill 2016 Spoiling for a Fight: Third Party Politics in America - Sifry The Limits of Presidential Power - Genovese Democracy for the Few - Parenti Is That A Politician In Your Pocket? Washington on $2 Million a Day - Sifry and Watzman Dynasties: How Their Wealth and Power Threaten Democracy - Phillips Clinton and Trump, Fear and Fascism - Moser A Debasing Spectacle: Behind and Beyond the Latest Quadrennial Carnival - Street The (un)Democratic Primary: Why We Need a New Party of the 99% - Sawant The Empire Files: Abby Martin Exposes What Hillary Clinton Really Represents - The Real News Network Revolution Is In the Air - Hedges How Sanders Could Lay the Foundation for a Third US Political Party - Gilbert Is Bernie’s ‘Political Revolution’ the Real Thing or a Pathetic Joke? - Lindorff Protesting Trump and Hillary Too - Kimberly Robert Reich Sees the Future: Why America's Two-Party System May Collapse - Reich The Rise of American Authoritarianism - Taub Bernie Sanders' Phantom Movement - Hedges Special Places in Hell: For Madeline, Hillary....and Bernie - Street Overwhelming Majority of Americans Believe that Both Parties Are Too Corrupt to Change Anything - Washington's Blog Hillary Clinton’s Populist Charade - Webb The Clintons’ $93 Million Romance with Wall Street: A Catastrophe for Working Families, African-Americans, and Latinos - Behan VIDEO: Presidential Candidate Dr. Jill Stein: The United States' Multi-Organ Failure - Abby Martin with Telesur Why Did the Former Republican Gov. of New Mexico Join the Libertarian Party to Run for President? - Democracy Now! Ordinary Americans Fought Big Money and Won in 2015 - Mason When Plan A Meets Plan B: Talking Politics and Revolution with the Green Party’s Jill Stein - Street Socialist Alternative The Green Party
UNCOUNTED: The True Story of the California Primary - Wake Up California!
The Crisis of Democracy - The Trilateral Commission (1973)
The Powell Memo (also known as the Powell Manifesto) - Reclaim Democracy!
A Century of War - RT Documentary
Corruption is Legal in America - Represent.Us
The Lie We Live [Smart Kid - A Nice Wake-Up Call] - Spencer Cathcart
Understanding Marxism and Socialism with Richard Wolff
War Is A Racket - Major General Smedley Butler
Four Horsemen - Documentary (Great Stuff! Check This Out!)
Tipping Point: The End of Oil - Documentary
Wondering About the Origins of ISIS? (You'd Better Buckle Your Seatbelts for This One)
Capitalism Never Solves Its Crises; It Moves Them Around Geographically - RSAnimate
Two American Families - Frontline Documentary
We the People, and the Republic We Must Reclaim - Lawrence Lessig on TED
Global Wealth Inequality: What You Never Knew You Never Knew - therules.org
Wealth Inequality in America - therules.org
Park Ave: Wealth, Poverty, and the American Dream - Documentary
Shadows of Liberty - Documentary (Mass Media)
Plutocracy in America - Brenner
The Progressive Movement is a PR Front for Rich Democrats - Stauber
Rick Wolff: A Cure for Capitalism (Worker Self-Directed Enterprises!)
Consent Without Consent: Reflections on the Theory and Practice of Democracy - Chomsky
Obamacare: A Deception - Roberts
The Purchase of Our Republic - Falkson
Searching for Steele: James Steele, America's Mystery Man in Iraq - BBC / Guardian Documentary
The Crisis of Civilization - Documentary
Let Your Life Be A Friction That Stops The Machine - Class War Films
Political Fraud - Class War Films
Financial Crime - Class War Films
Military Cancer - Class War Films
Imperial Decay - Class War Films
Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis - Documentary
What Democracy? The Case for Abolishing the United States Senate - Rosenfeld
Making Every Vote Count: The Case for Proportional Representation - Amy
Ignoble Liars: Leo Strauss, George Bush, and the Philosophy of Mass Deception - Shorris
Barack Hoover Obama: The Best and the Brightest Blow It Again - Baker
The Great American Bubble Machine - Taibbi
Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail? - Taibbi
Empire Under Obama: Counterinsurgency, Death Squads, and the Population as the Target - Marshall
Smash the Control Machine - Otep Rocks!
Rise Rebel Resist - Otep Rocks!
The World is Coming to an End - Prince Ea
The Final Word from My Two Favorite Comedians of All Time on "The Big Question"