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No escape from debt by selling jails | Sasha Abramsky

Here's an idea: sell off our prisons to the highest bidders, reap a pile of short-term cash to inflate near-empty state coffers, then lease back the prisons for 20 years at a cost to the state that far exceeds the original purchase price paid by the ...

From SASHA ABRAMSKY, Guardian Unlimited,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Joe Arpaio,  Janet Napolitano,  Jan Brewer,  U.S. Republican Party

The New Blue-Collar Hungry

Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas: Your email has been sent. Scott Olson / Getty Images Forget what you thought you knew about hunger in America—in the new economy, even working parents and their kids are short on food. ...

From SASHA ABRAMSKY, The Daily Beast,  18 Nov 2009

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Bring US homeless in from the cold | Sasha Abramsky

Last week's United Nations' findings on America's homeless crisis couldn't have been more timely or more depressing. Three years into the post-housing bubble era, special rapporteur Raquel Rolnik detailed a growing crisis in which the poorest of the ...

From SASHA ABRAMSKY, Guardian Unlimited,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  Barack Obama,  Eric Garcetti

'Obámanos!' by Hendrik Hertzberg

Hendrik Hertzberg's "Obámanos!" is a collection of first-rate columns that reads like, well, a collection of first-rate columns. That's both a good and a bad thing. On the plus side, as readers of the New Yorker already know, the author is an astute, ...

From SASHA ABRAMSKY, San Francisco Chronicle,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Hendrik Hertzberg,  Jimmy Carter,  Sarah Palin,  Katie Couric

Sasha Abramsky: In Defense of Good Government

A couple days ago, I wrote a piece for the Guardian newspaper, in which I posited the notion that President Obama's singular achievement in his first year in office has been to wrestle the great ship of state onto a new rhetorical course - one in which ...

From SASHA ABRAMSKY, Huffington Post,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  John McCain,  Grover Norquist,  George W. Bush,  U.S. Republican Party

Sasha Abramsky: Obama's Free Space Moment

Next Wednesday marks the one year anniversary of Barack Obama's election. So much has happened in that year that it's easy to forget just how improbable the election victory was, just how world-shaking was the election of a young, charismatic, liberal ...

From SASHA ABRAMSKY, Huffington Post,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Michelle Obama,  Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  Richard Nixon,  New York Times Company

Sasha Abramsky: Obama at the United Nations

President Obama's speech to the United Nations this morning borrowed thematically from Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy. It was an example of American idealism, and internationalism, at its soaring rhetorical best - a blending of ...

From SASHA ABRAMSKY, Huffington Post,  23 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  United Nations,  Franklin D. Roosevelt,  John F. Kennedy

Across America east to west by rail

City escape ... America's rail route whisks you from urban centres to mile after mile of empty countryside. Photograph: Alan Schein/Corbis Sasha's son Leo enjoys food on the go. Photograph: Sasha Abramsky I cut into my syrupy ...

From SASHA ABRAMSKY, Guardian Unlimited,  26 Aug 2009

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Across America by road and rail

Wide open spaces ... Sasha Abramsky with his daughter Sofia en route from Sacremento, California to New York on a family road trip The American road fascinated me even before I held a driving licence. I've driven across country eight times, and racked ...

From SASHA ABRAMSKY, Guardian Unlimited,  25 Aug 2009

Sasha Abramsky: Don't Mistake Discontent for Failure

This is, according to the punditocracy, the summer of our discontent, the moment when utopianism slides into profound disillusionment and "change" in D.C. 'morphs into "business as usual." There's an inevitability to the narrative: newbie hits town, ...

From SASHA ABRAMSKY, Huffington Post,  23 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Paul Krugman,  Dick Morris,  Karl Rove,  George W. Bush

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