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(August 22) Lecture / Discussion Page - Politics in a Changing Society
Readings1. Instructions for the August 22, 2023 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Politics in a Changing Society 4. Journal Article Reading: Biden's Victory Was Hardly a Win for "Democracy." It Was Another Win for the 1% - Koundzic 5. Video Presentation: America's Two-Party Corporate Duopoly 6. Discussion Board Question and Peer Responses for Video Presentation Politics in a Changing Society [PowerPoint Presentation] Liberal Individualism and the Crisis of Citizenship - Bellah This Land is Your Land - Hightower What is the American Dream? - Hochschild The Market As Prison - Lindblom
(August 29) Lecture / Discussion Page - American Political Ideologies and Parties
Readings1. Instructions for the August 29, 2023 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] American Political Ideologies and Parties 4. Journal Article Reading: Fascism Anyone? - Britt 5. Video Presentation: Alt Right: Age of Rage 6. Discussion Board Question and Peer Responses for Video Presentation American Political Ideologies and Parties [PowerPoint Presentation] Why We Need a New Progressive Party and How We Can Create It - Rall Fascism Anyone? - Britt Fear vs. Fear - Hedges America's Stunted Political Spectrum - Second Thought The Political Compass
(September 5) Lecture / Discussion Page - The Founders and the Constitution
Readings1. Instructions for the September 5, 2023 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] The Founders and the Constitution 4. Journal Article Reading: Ditch the Constitution and Start Over: When a Government Becomes Destructive of the Rights of the People - Mazza 5. Video Presentation: United States of Secrets 6. Discussion Board Question and Peer Responses for Video Presentation The Founders and the Constitution [Powerpoint Presentation] America's Antiquated Constitution - Howell and Moe The Dark Side of the Constitution - Dolbeare The Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the Decline of American Democracy - Lazar Some Truths Are Not Self-Evident - Zinn
(September 12) Lecture / Discussion Page - The Federal System: Structure and Dynamics
Readings1. Instructions for the September 12, 2023 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] The Federal System: Structure and Dynamics 4. Journal Article Reading: American Exceptionalism and the Politics of Fragmentation - Cohen / Rogers 5. Video Presentation: The Electoral College is Anti-Democracy 6. Discussion Board Question and Peer Responses for Video Presentation Federalism [PowerPoint Presentation] States Rights: the Other Side of the Coin - Ochenski The Drive for Domination Puts US Unity at Risk - Mazza Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity - Jensen
(September 19) Lecture / Discussion Page - The Legislative Branch: Institutions and Processes
Readings1. Instructions for the September 19, 2023 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] The Legislative Branch: Institutions and Processes 4. Journal Article Reading: License to Profit: Legalized Corruption in the US Congress - Johnson 5. Video Presentation: Money, Power and Wall Street 6. Discussion Board Question and Peer Responses for Video Presentation The Legislative Branch [PowerPoint Presentation] Unequal Struggle - Berg Democracy On Drugs - Common Cause Congress: The Pocketing of Power - Parenti How Corporations Run Congress: A Talk With Ryan Grim - Eskow
(September 26) Lecture / Discussion Page - The Executive Branch
Readings1. Instructions for the September 26, 2023 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] The Executive Branch 4. Journal Article Reading: Revolutionary Socialism and the Fight Against Wall Street's President - Peterson 5. Video Presentation: The Corporate Coup d'Etat 6. Discussion Board Question and Peer Responses for Video Presentation The Executive Branch [PowerPoint Presentation] George Farah on Presidential Debates - Bill Moyers The Presidential Spectacle - Miroff The President: Guardian of the System - Parenti Our Imperial System: On How Not to Think About the American Presidency - Grover and Peschek The Limits of Presidential Power - Genovese
(October 3) Lecture / Discussion Page - The Federal Judiciary
Readings1. Instructions for the October 3, 2023 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] The Federal Judiciary 4. Journal Article Reading: The Courts v. Democracy - Flory 5. Video Presentation: Supreme Revenge: Battle for the Court 6. Discussion Board Question and Peer Responses for Video Presentation The Judicial Branch [PowerPoint Presentation] The Supremely Political Court - Parenti How the 14th Amendment Made Corporations Into 'People' - Pruitt Frontline: Justice for Sale Corporations, the Law, and Democracy - Swidorski
(October 10) Lecture / Discussion Page - Governmental Bureaucracy
Readings1. Instructions for the October 10, 2023 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Governmental Bureaucracy 4. Journal Article Reading: Bullshit Jobs: How Our Modern Bureaucracy Created Them - Vitaud 5. Video Presentation: David Graeber About Bullshit Jobs 6. Discussion Board Question and Peer Responses for Video Presentation The Bureaucracy [PowerPoint Presentation] Which is Worse - Government or Corporate Bureaucracy? - Hartmann Bureaucracy - A Documentary by Dr Richard Cole Growing Bureaucracy and Fraud in US Health Care - Geyman No Easy Answers: James Q. Wilson on Bureaucracy, Crime, and Community - Eggers and O'Leary
(October 17) Lecture / Discussion Page - Public Opinion and the Mass Media
Readings1. Instructions for the October 17, 2023 Class 2a. Text Reading (Public Opinion) 2b. Text Reading (Mass Media) 3. [Lecture Presentation] Public Opinion and the Mass Media 4. Journal Article Reading: Democracy and a Free Press - Croteau and Hoynes 5. Video Presentation: Project Censored: The Movie 6. Discussion Board Question and Peer Responses for Video Presentation Public Opinion and the Mass Media [PowerPoint Presentation] Herman and Chomsky's 5 Filters on the Media - Al Jazeera Shadows of Liberty - Documentary News Content and Illusion: Four Information Biases That Matter - Bennett Power of Majority Opinion in America Over Thought - De Tocqueville Post-Fact Politics: Reviewing the History of Fake News and Propaganda - DiMaggio It's the Media, Stupid - McChesney / Nichols
(October 24) Lecture / Discussion Page - Voting and Elections
Readings1. Instructions for the October 24, 2023 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Voting and Elections 4. Journal Article Reading: Voting for the Lesser of Two Evils: A Vicious Circle - Fayazmanesh 5. Video Presentation: Whose Vote Counts, Explained 6. Discussion Board Question and Peer Responses for Video Presentation Voting and Elections [PowerPoint Presentation] To Vote or Not to Vote? - Levine After the Deluge: Electoral Reform in the Wake of the Election of 2000 - Guinier Real Choices / New Voices - Amy Finding the Lost Voters - Sifry
(October 31) Lecture / Discussion Page - Political Interest Groups
Readings1. Instructions for the October 31, 2023 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Political Interest Groups 4. Journal Article Reading: What Kind of a Threat is Russia? - Carden 5. Video Presentation: Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics 6. Discussion Board Question and Peer Responses for Video Presentation Interest Groups [PowerPoint Presentation] Nothing Less Than a Revolution Can Save Us - Street USA Continues Drive to Plutocracy, Role of Lobbyists, Dismantling of the State - Stanton Why Unions Matter - Bernard Reclaiming the Commons - Klein
(November 7) Lecture / Discussion Page - The Public Policy Process
Readings1. Instructions for the November 7, 2023 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] The Public Policy Process 4. Journal Article Reading: A Livable Future Is Possible: An Interview With Noam Chomsky - Cox 5. Video Presentation: Requiem for the American Dream 6. Discussion Board Question and Peer Responses for Video Presentation Public Policy [PowerPoint Presentation] So Much for 'The Squad': How the Much-Hyped New U.S. Progressive Bloc Has Caved to Corporate Power - Goodman Public Health? Anyone? Twelve Ways to Avoid Talking About Capitalism - Gendrault Public Policymaking - Anderson Closing the Democracy Gap - Nader
(November 14) Lecture / Discussion Page - U.S. Economic Policy
Readings1. Instructions for the November 14, 2023 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] U.S. Economic Policy 4. Journal Article Reading: Can Progressives Save Biden From Disastrous Economic Policies? - Wolff 5. Video Presentation: Crash: The Power of the Fed 6. Discussion Board Question and Peer Responses for Video Presentation Economic Policy [PowerPoint Presentation] Wall Street Wins -- Again - Prins Doing It For Ourselves: Can Feminism Survive Class Polarization? - Ehrenreich Interview with Pete Peterson on the Deficit - Charlie Rose Class Inequality and Democracy - Krugman
(November 21) Lecture / Discussion Page - U.S. Foreign Policy
Readings1. Instructions for the November 21, 2023 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] U.S. Foreign Policy 4. Journal Article Reading: Shrinking the Pentagon: Will the Biden Administration Dare Cut Military Spending? 5. Video Presentation: Noam Chomsky: Putin, Ukraine, China and Nuclear War 6. Discussion Board Question and Peer Responses for Video Presentation Foreign Policy [PowerPoint Presentation] Henry Kissinger Calls for a New Post-Covid World Order - Whitney Wars of Terror - Chomsky The Theology of American Empire - Chernus The Power Principle - Documentary In Whose Interest? - Documentary The Logic of U.S. Intervention - Parenti
(November 28) Lecture / Discussion Page - Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
Readings1. Instructions for the November 28, 2023 Class 2a. Text Reading (Civil Liberties) 2b. Text Reading (Civil Rights) 3. [Lecture Presentation] Civil Liberties and Civil Rights 4. Journal Article Reading: Superpredator: The Media Myth That Demonized a Generation of Black Youth - Bogert 5. Video Presentation: Broken on All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration, & New Visions for Criminal Justice in the US 6. Discussion Board Question and Peer Responses for Video Presentation Civil Liberties and Rights [PowerPoint Presentation] California Flags Alienated, Idealistic Kids of Color as Potential Violent Extremists - Garrison Neo-Patriarchy and the Anti-Homosexual Agenda - Snyder Letter From a Birmingham Jail - King Jr. Is Free Speech the Enemy of Democracy? - Sunstein
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Books / Articles / Reports / Documents / Websites (Conservative / Republican)America's Stunted Political Spectrum - Second Thought The Political Compass 'What Happened to Unity?': Rush Limbaugh Says Biden 'Insulted' 75M Trump Voters in Speech - Soellner Bernie Sanders: The Green Mountian Red - Smith American Politics Change, But American Parties Endure - Mandelbaum Trump's 2020 Vision - Antle III (Book) The Rise and Fall of American Political Parties: 1790 - 2000 - Silbey (Book) Free Speech Requires Campaign Money - Smith (Book) Dollars and Votes - Clawson The Republican Party Home Page Conservatives Against Trump - National Review Symposium The View From 1787 - Cost Newsmax One America News Network The Continuing Woes of the "Establishment" - Larison
Books / Articles / Reports / Documents / Websites (Liberal / Democrat)America's Stunted Political Spectrum - Second Thought The Political Compass Democracy Is Defenseless and the Midterms Can Kill It - Behan Biden Turns the Page On Trump in a Surprisingly Effective Inaugural Address - Harris Inside Joe Biden's Agenda for His First 100 Days - Abramson and Bennett An Open Letter to the Green Party for 2020 - Chomsky, et. al. Imagine Yourself With Two Abusive Boyfriends... - Brown 'They Let Him Get Away with Murder': Dems Tormented Over How to Stop Bernie - Korecki Fake President - The Ralph Nader Radio Hour How the Little Guy Gets Crunched - Barlett and Steele White Supremacists Are Infiltrating the GOP From the Ground Up - Rivers Pitt (Book) 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)America's Stunted Political Spectrum - Second Thought The Political Compass Blue MAGA's BIg Lie - Orlet While Americans Sleep, Our Corporate Overlords Make Progress Impossible - Nader The Two Faces of Joe Biden - Taibbi Third Party? America Doesn't Even Have a Second Party - Knapp Ralph Nader: Democrats Ushered in an Era of Corporate Fascism - Scheer Ruling Class Joe and the Essence of American Politics - Street The Trump/Biden Handoff: Business as Usual, as Usual - Knapp Top 10 Executive Actions Biden Could Do But Won't - Camp The Deep State's Stealthy, Subversive, Silent Coup to Ensure Nothing Changes - Whitehead Nancy and Paul Pelosi Making Millions in Stock Trades in Companies She Actively Regulates - Greenwald U.S. Ruling Class Wins Again - Mackler Inauguration 2021: On the Edge of an Abyss - Kishore and North Trump May Be On Trial, But the System That Produced Him Will Be Acquitted - Cook Two Capitalist Parties Compete, Humanity Loses - Urie Affluent Authoritarianism: New Evidence on Public Opinion and Policy - Ferguson America After the Election: A Few Hard Truths About the Things That Won't Change - Whitehead The US Dictatorship of (White) Capital and its Tools of Bamboozlement - Ford The Surrendered Land: US Institutions Won't Fight for Democracy - Floyd America's Two Right-Wing Parties Absurdly Keep Accusing Each Other Of Being Far-Left - Johnstone President Trump versus Vice President Biden, a Disappointing Decision for American Voters - Davich Class: The Little Word the Elites Want You to Forget - Hedges Biden and the Democrats Have No Plan to Stop the Bleeding -- at Home or Abroad - Haiphong Here They Come Again: The Kind of Neoliberal Democrats Who Prefer Trump to Sanders - Reed, Jr. How Capitalism's Structural and Ideological Crisis Gives Rise to Neo-Fascism - The Real News Network Neither Democrats Nor Republicans Will Admit the Problem Is Capitalism Itself - Wolff Three Years into Trump's Presidency, What's Left of the American Left? - Harris Billionaires and American Politics - Wittner Vowing Not to 'Demonize' the Rich, Biden Tells Billionaires 'Nothing Would Fundamentally Change' If He Was Elected - Higgins Elections and the Illusion of Political Control - Urie The Democrats Can't Save Us - Pemberton (Book) The Limits of Presidential Power - Genovese (Book) Democracy for the Few - Parenti (Book) Is That A Politician In Your Pocket? Washington on $2 Million a Day - Sifry and Watzman (Book) Dynasties: How Their Wealth and Power Threaten Democracy - Phillips The Rise of American Authoritarianism - Taub Overwhelming Majority of Americans Believe that Both Parties Are Too Corrupt to Change Anything - Washington's Blog Ordinary Americans Fought Big Money and Won in 2015 - Mason
Books / Articles / Reports / Documents / Websites (Third Party)Socialist Alternative Why We Need a New Progressive Party and How We Can Create It - Rall You Can Trust 'Left Liberals' to be Liberals First (and Left Last): A Reply to Chomsky & Friends' Open Letter - Rasmus Bossing Grown Folks Around: The Open Letter to the Greens - Moser Sorry Chomsky and Friends, the Green Party Isn't the Problem - Pemberton Why the Green Party Isn't the Problem - Hoenig (Book) Spoiling for a Fight: Third Party Politics in America - Sifry Truth + Justice = Green Party's Trailblazing World Peace Platform - Smith
The War on Journalism: The Case of Julian Assange
A Message From the Future II: "Years of Repair"
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
The Collapse of the American Empire? - The Agenda with Steve Paikin
Corruption is Legal in America - Represent.Us
Unbreaking America: A NEW Short Film about Solving the Corruption Crisis - 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!)
Empire Files: Peter Joseph & Abby Martin on Abolishing Capitalism
Destroying the Myths of Market Fundamentalism - The Real News Network
Tipping Point: The End of Oil - Documentary
Capitalism Never Solves Its Crises; It Moves Them Around Geographically - RSAnimate
Two American Families - Frontline Documentary
Global Wealth Inequality: What You Never Knew You Never Knew - therules.org
Wealth Inequality in America - therules.org
Billionaire Bonanza: The Forbes 400 and the Rest of Us - Institute for Policy Studies
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
Consent Without Consent: Reflections on the Theory and Practice of Democracy - Chomsky
Obamacare: A Deception - Roberts
The Purchase of Our Republic - Falkson
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
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