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(August 27) Lecture One - Politics in a Changing Society
Readings1. Instructions for the August 27, 2024 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Politics in a Changing Society 4. Journal Article Reading: The Undemocratic Reality of Capitalism - Wolff 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] Biden's Victory Was Hardly a Win for "Democracy." It Was Another Win for the 1% - Koundzic 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
(September 3) Lecture Two - American Political Ideologies and Parties
Readings1. Instructions for the September 3, 2024 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] The Political Spectrum 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 10) Lecture Three - The Founders and the Constitution
Readings1. Instructions for the September 10, 2024 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 17) Lecture Four - The Federal System: Structure and Dynamics
Readings1. Instructions for the September 17, 2024 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] Large Majority of Americans Want to End Electoral College - Corbett Slavery, Democracy and the Racialized Roots of the Electoral College - Petrella 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 24) Lecture Five - The Legislative Branch: Institutions and Processes
Readings1. Instructions for the September 24, 2024 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 Fresh Calls for Stock Trading Ban After US Lawmakers Beat Market in 2023 - Corbett Democracy On Drugs - Common Cause Congress: The Pocketing of Power - Parenti How Corporations Run Congress: A Talk With Ryan Grim - Eskow
(October 1) Lecture Six - The Executive Branch
Readings1. Instructions for the October 1, 2024 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] The Executive Branch 4. Journal Article Reading: You're With Her, But Is She With You? - Leon III 5. Video Presentation: The Corporate Coup d'Etat 6. Discussion Board Question and Peer Responses for Video Presentation The Executive Branch [PowerPoint Presentation] Biden Out - We Need a New Party, Not a New Democrat - Hubbard 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 8) Lecture Seven - The Federal Judiciary
Readings1. Instructions for the October 8, 2024 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 15) Lecture Eight - Governmental Bureaucracy
Readings1. Instructions for the October 15, 2024 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 22) Lecture Nine - Public Opinion and the Mass Media
Readings1. Instructions for the October 22, 2024 Class 2. Text Reading 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 15 Reasons Why Media Don't Do Journalism - Johnstone 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 29) Lecture Ten - Voting and Elections
Readings1. Instructions for the October 29, 2024 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Voting and Elections 4. Journal Article Reading: How to Fix America's Confusing Voting System - Swaby and Waldman 5. Video Presentation: Suppressed and Sabotaged: The Fight To Vote 6. Discussion Board Question and Peer Responses for Video Presentation Voting and Elections [PowerPoint Presentation] Whose Vote Counts, Explained To Vote or Not to Vote? - Levine After the Deluge: Electoral Reform in the Wake of the Election of 2000 - Guinier Voting for the Lesser of Two Evils: A Vicious Circle - Fayazmanesh Real Choices / New Voices - Amy Finding the Lost Voters - Sifry
(November 5) Lecture Eleven - Political Interest Groups
Readings1. Instructions for the November 5, 2024 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Political Interest Groups 4. Journal Article Reading: With Project 2025 and Agenda 47, the USA's Coups Come Home to Roost - Polychroniou 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 12) Lecture Twelve - The Public Policy Process
Readings1. Instructions for the November 12, 2024 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 19) Lecture Thirteen - U.S. Economic Policy
Readings1. Instructions for the November 19, 2024 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] U.S. Economic Policy 4. Journal Article Reading: Can Kamala Harris Reach Blue Collar Workers? - Leopold 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 US Senator Says Ukraine is 'Gold Mine' with $12 Trillion of Minerals 'We Can't Afford to Lose' - Geopolitical Economy Report 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 26) Lecture Fourteen - U.S. Foreign Policy
Readings1. Instructions for the November 26, 2024 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: Why We Fight 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
(December 3) Lecture Fifteen - Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
Readings1. Instructions for the December 3, 2024 Class 2. Text Reading 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] To End Systemic Racism, Ensure Systemic Equality - Moore and Brooks 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
Books / Articles / Reports / Documents / Websites (Conservative / Republican)The Political Spectrum The Republican Party Home Page Why Major Dissident Figures Now Back Trump - Hunter Project 2025 - The Heritage Foundation How Trump Can Combat the Harris Surge - Continetti The Cult of Kamala - Hunter Review: 'Government Gangsters' Chronicles the Deep State's Plot to Destroy Trump - Mansour Trump Gives Isolated Americans the Chance to Hate Alone Together - York New Poll: 2024 Republican Nomination Appears to Be Trump's for the Taking - Davis Three Weeks into Joining Race, Kamala Harris Has No Policies - Pollak Failure of "Bidenomics" Is Rankling Americans - Antoni Biden the Liar - Cooke Liz Cheney Would Rather See Democrats Win in 2024 - Garrity Poll: Majority Believe Joe Biden Is 'Too Old to Effectively Serve' a Second Term - Bleau Leave Trump Alone - Van Buren CNN Poll: Most Republicans Believe GOP Has Best Chance to Win in 2024 if Donald Trump Is the Nominee - Bleau '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 View From 1787 - Cost Newsmax One America News Network The Continuing Woes of the "Establishment" - Larison
Books / Articles / Reports / Documents / Websites (Liberal / Democrat)The Democratic Party Home Page A New Way Forward - Kamala Harris This Election Isn't About a Perfect Candidate, It's About Our Futures - Parish Moreno Harris Is Pushing Joy. Trump Paints A Darker Picture. Will Mismatched Moods Matter? - Weissert and Price Joe Biden Says He Fulfilled This 'Obligation' By Dropping Out - Vlachou Kamala Harris More Trusted on Economy as Donald Trump Loses Major Advantage - Carbonaro Donald Trump is Stuggling - Brown Happy Warriors Harris and Walz Propose an Antidote to Trump's American Carnage - Collinson Turn Out, Not Polls, Will Determine Who Wins in 2024 - Lawrence Trump Gives Isolated Americans the Chance to Hate Alone Together - Mazzarino Portraying Trump as the Fascist He Is Could Save US Democracy - Green The Garbage of 'Lesser of Two Evils' Discontents - Reich 'Jail' Roger Stone Uproar as Congressmen Assassination Threat Audio Leaks Voting for President Is Not an Exercise in Personal Expression - Zimmerman The Doubtful Future of the American Experiment - Gurtov Former Obama Advisor David Axelrod Says Cornel West's Presidential Candidacy Could Swing the 2024 Election to Trump - Dorman Is Anybody but Trump Excited About the 2024 Election Beginning? - Nolan Brown The Trump Case and the Decline of True American Nationalism - Pillar 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 Can Hillary Clinton Convince Voters They're Not Settling? - Brownstein 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)Kamala Harris - A New Hope Or A Mirage? - Shibabaw Kamala Harris is the New Face Being Put on America's Wars - Urie Will Kamala Make Idealism Great Again? - Bovard Democrats Deploy Bernie Sanders to Con Workers and Youth Into Supporting Harris-Walz Campaign - Crosse Black Left Critique of Kamala Harris - Black Agenda Report The USA Is An Oligarchy - Geopolitical Economy Report Capitalism, Mass Anger and the 2024 Elections - Wolff Biden Out - We Need a New Party, Not a New Democrat - Hubbard The Biden-Trump Debate and the Crisis of the American Political System - Mackaman The Lesser Evil Gambit - Koehler Harris vs Trump: The End of American Dominance? - The Chris Hedges Report Why Socialists Don't Vote for Our Enemies - Mark J. The Sad Spectacle of Lesser-Evil Elections - Systemic Disorder Can Democracy and Billionaires Coexist? - Pizzigati An Election for the Billionaires - Martin The Democracy Election - Parry American Oligarchy - Mother Jones Investigation America's Stunted Political Spectrum - Second Thought The Political Compass These Statistics Show Why the Status Quo is Failing Most Americans - Poole Could 2024 Election Cause Society to Collapse? Some Preppers Think So - And They're Ready - Hughes Wall Street or the Working Class: The Democrats Must Choose - Leopold Instead of Trashing Cornel West, Here's What Democrats Could Do If They Actually Cared About Social and Economic Justice - McCarley While Americans Sleep, Our Corporate Overlords Make Progress Impossible - Nader 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 The Deep State's Stealthy, Subversive, Silent Coup to Ensure Nothing Changes - Whitehead U.S. Ruling Class Wins Again - Mackler 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 America's Two Right-Wing Parties Absurdly Keep Accusing Each Other Of Being Far-Left - Johnstone Class: The Little Word the Elites Want You to Forget - Hedges 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 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 (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)Claudia and Karina 2024! The Chris Hedges Report: Campaigning Against Genocide (w/ Dr. Jill Stein & Butch Ware) Project 2025 Is No Match for MAGA Dysfunction - Slade Presidential Candidate Jill Stein On Gaza, The Two-Party System and US Militarism - Interview with Mnar Adley The Democrats' "All-Out War" on Third Parties and Independent Candidates - Crosse Black Media Misleaders Do the Democrats' Dirty Work - Kimberly Breaking Down Cornel West's Campaign So Far (w/ Sabby Sabs) - Journalists for Sale (Jones and Ramos) Cornel West Runs for President: You Can't Be a Spoiler if the System Is Already Rotten - Harris We Should Not Disregard or Disrespect Cornel West's Candidacy for President of the United States - Griffen Cornel West and the Campaign to End Political Apartheid - Hedges Could Cornel West Help the Greens Win Ballot Access in 50 States? - Garrison Cornel West's Candidacy is 'For The Least of These' - The Chris Hedges Report Cornel West on Running for President, Ending Ukraine War & Taking on "Corporate Duopoly" of Dems & GOP - Democracy Now! 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
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American Oligarchy - Mother Jones Investigation
World's First Trillionaire Just 10 Years Away as Richest Men Double Their Wealth - Johnson
How to Unf*ck America - Dean Baker and The Institute for New Economic Thinking
American Exception: Hegemony and the Dissimulation of the State - Good
Essay: Anatomy of the Deep State - Lofgren
The Deep State Hiding in Plain Sight - Moyers and Company
Trump Against Empire: Is That Why They Hate Him? - Parenti
The CIA, NATO and the US Empire with Aaron Good - Mint Press News
The War on Journalism: The Case of Julian Assange
The UBER Files - International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
A Message From the Future II: "Years of Repair"
The World in Economic Depression: A Marxist Analysis of Crisis - Tricontinental
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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