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Eric Alterman
American
Writer
Born:
Jan 14
,
1960
American
Conservatives
Few
News
People
Political
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Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.
Eric Alterman
Wealth
Half
Spring
States
Degrees
Percent
Putting
Inequality
Uganda
Egypt
Owns
Nations
Tunisia
Barely
Measured
Population
Income
United
Income Inequality
Near
United States
Below
Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class.
Eric Alterman
Class
Science
World
Economics
Party
Tea
Earned
Earth
Claimed
Would
About
Economy
Global
Global Economy
Freshman
Any
Candidates
Much
Elections
Tea Party
There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem.
Eric Alterman
People
Problem
Nothing
Recession
Our
Obama
Lies
Table
Threat
More
More People
Facing
Ideas
Force
Still
Came
Were
Years
Years Ago
Up
Five
Than
Offering
Get
Tax
Tax Cut
Republicans
Cut
Therein
Fundamental
Millionaires
One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.
Eric Alterman
Change
Battle
Victory
Mind-Set
Presidential
Marks
Obama
Impending
Nomination
Policy
Foreign
Foreign Policy
His
Salutary
American
Establishment
American Foreign Policy
Barack
Aspects
Sea
Sea Change
Many
Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully 93 percent of additional income gains coming out of the recession went straight into the wallets and purses of the top 1 percent.
Eric Alterman
Government
Financial
First
Year
Recession
Additional
Top
Collapse
Released
Out
Statistics
Percent
Economic
Recovery
Real
Coming
Covering
Gains
Straight
Fully
Found
Income
Recently
America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.
Eric Alterman
Great
Few
Range
Percent
Were
Years
Years Ago
America
Just
Newspapers
President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you don't hear conservatives crowing about that.
Eric Alterman
Today
Time
You
President
Conservatives
President Obama
Obama
About
More
He
Reagan
Were
Hear
Than
Them
Taxes
Lower
Lowered
Raised
Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.
Eric Alterman
Poverty
Living
Rising
Over
Five
American
American Children
Children
Number
Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.
Eric Alterman
Government
Degree
Situation
Exacerbated
Unprecedented
Distrust
Some
Always
American
Current
May
Current Situation
Local politics, like everything else, are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system - like our physical existence - still breaks down along geographical lines.
Eric Alterman
Politics
Political
Down
Else
Local
Our
Everything
Everything Else
System
Physical
Fact
Along
Like
Geographical
Still
Lines
Existence
Political System
Breaks
Used
Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined.
Eric Alterman
News
Matter
Criticism
Nothing
Worse
Harsh
Somehow
Network
Had
Always
How
Prove
Impressive
Itself
Than
Endures
Even
Even Worse
Fox
Fox News
Imagined
This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy.
Eric Alterman
Angry
Vote
Debate
Trend
Omnipresent
Worse
About
Over
Policy
Democrats
Iraq
Trying
Reporting
Substance
Unfortunate
Process
Inability
Republicans
Who
Even
Even Worse
Media
Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant', it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.
Eric Alterman
Will
Three
Few
Believe
Imagination
Distinction
Franklin
Longer
Printed
Genuine
Dubious
Wonder
Survive
America
Current
Form
After
Newspaper
Centuries
Newspapers
Requires
Who
Appearance
Publishing
Last
Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of Craigslist, which is wiping out classified advertising-have created a palpable sense of doom.
Eric Alterman
Daily
Internet
Made
Slow
Sense
Trends
Circulation
Out
Rise
Classified
Advent
Look
Advertising
Doom
Which
Newspaper
Created
Palpable
To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.
Eric Alterman
Age
Money
Internet
Own
States
Out
Kind
License
City
Abroad
Only
No-One
Print
Print Money
How
However
Dominant
Decades
American
Newspaper
Rescue
Figured
Many
United
United States
Internet Age
If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not.
Eric Alterman
People
Judge
World
Sense
Busy
Strictly
Our
Peers
Reliability
Some
Perhaps
Make
Sort
Advisory
Answer
Discourse
Bloggers
Improve
Which
Public
Public Discourse
Body
Uninformed
Use
Standard
Helping
Necessary
More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um, colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts cool as a proverbial cucumber but that awful '70s show seems frightfully close to a rerun.
Eric Alterman
Worry
Jimmy
Jimmy Carter
Obama
Carter
Seems
More
More And More
Colorful
Democrats
Cucumber
Proverbial
Um
Version
Close
Hands
Show
Cool
Acts
Awful
Starting
Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without ever reaching anything approaching consensus.
Eric Alterman
Approaching
Philosophers
Some
Morality
Argued
Over
Reaching
Without
Frequency
Israelis
Targeted
Anything
Centuries
Theologians
Use
Ever
Technique
Consensus
Most of the provisions designed to fix what ails our health system don't kick in until 2014, which, one wishes administration officials had noticed, is two years after he has to win an election.
Eric Alterman
Health
Win
Election
Our
Kick
System
Administration
Had
He
Wishes
Most
Until
Years
Provisions
Fix
Officials
After
Which
Noticed
Designed
Two
Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.
Eric Alterman
Anger
Easy
Impatience
Tactics
Inspiration
Well
Understand
Occupy
Occupy Wall Street
Wall
Wall Street
Movement
Whether
Agree
Street
Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.
Eric Alterman
Struggle
Control
Onto
Merely
Democratic
Force
Policy
Foreign
Issue
Foreign Policy
Conduct
Public
Agenda
Requires
Bringing
Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding.
Eric Alterman
Political
Amazing
Holding
Beneath
Unlikely
Obama
Feet
Opponents
Political Career
His
Politically
Who
Appears
Streak
Career
So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.
Eric Alterman
Mistake
Political
Decision
Negative
Will
Obama
Put
Supreme
Well
Make
Supreme Court
Court
Eggs
Certainly
Many
Appear
Basket
Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.
Eric Alterman
Matter
Presidency
Everything
Worse
Possible
Make
Doing
Sins
Than
Your
Certainly
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