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Larry Beinhart's Body Politic: May 2012 April 27, 2012
A poetic ode to spring and the Rebuplican’s view on sexual rights.
Larry Beinhart's Body Politic: April 2012 March 28, 2012
In American politics, Jesus Christ suffers from DID: dissociative identity disorder.
Larry Beinhart's Body Politic: March 2012 February 28, 2012
Larry Beinhart compares Super PAC’s on the campaign trail to gambling for presidential candidacy.
Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic: February 2012 January 27, 2012
Larry Beinhart discusses Martin Luther King’s impact on America.
Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic: Janaury 2012 December 28, 2011
Larry Benhart discusses the bailout of Morgan Stanley.
Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic: December 2011 November 30, 2011
Larry Beinhart discusses the benefits of taxes on the rich.
Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic: November 2011 October 26, 2011
Larry Beinhart discusses the significance of living in a state with unions.
Beinhart's Body Politic: October 2011 September 28, 2011
Larry Beinhart gets on Obama’s case to tax the rich and bring back the economy.
Beinhart's Body Politic: September 2011 August 26, 2011
Larry Beinhart wonders why all the bad Republican ideas come back to life.
Beinhart’s Body Politic: July 2011 June 27, 2011
A reflection on the recent political scandal through verse and rhyme.
Beinhart’s Body Politic: What Now? After Bin Laden May 26, 2011
Why despite criticism, the Obama administration did in two years, what no other administration has been able to do in 13.
Beinhart’s Body Politic: Class Warfare IV April 26, 2011
The latest installment in Larry Beinhart’s Class Warfare: Obamacare, child labor laws, public sector employees, and more.
Beinhart's Body Politic: Mythonomics March 28, 2011
Larry Beinhart busts the myths of communism, capitalism, socialism and fascism; helping us to realize all economies are mixed economies.
Beinhart's Body Politic: Class Warfare III February 24, 2011
Chronogram’s Larry Beinhart explains why big corporations hold increasingly more power, and why this leads to less justice for the average citizen.
Beinhart’s Body Politic: The Amorphous iPad of the Media January 28, 2011
Larry Beinhart, author of Salvation Boulevard, discusses disclosure, Wikileaks, and the New York Times.
Class Warfare, Part II December 30, 2010
How has a tiny fraction of the population trumped the interests of the majority?
Class Warfare November 23, 2010
Larry Beinhart on why tax cuts for the wealthy are bad news for everyone else.
The Weird Turn Pro October 26, 2010
Larry Beinhart thinks only activating people’s rage can save the Democrats.
Midterm Exam September 28, 2010
Larry Beinhart discusses the Democrats chances in the midterm elections.
Beinhart’s Body Politic June 24, 2010
Larry Beinhart on how oil unbalances the politics of the entire world.
Larry Beinhart's Body Politics March 25, 2010
Larry Beinhart on whether corporations should go to jail.
Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic February 24, 2010
What is civilization? Is it doing business? Exxon, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs? Or is it the rule of law, social order, clean water, sewers and waste disposal, a reliable food supply, literacy, mathematics, science and technology, art, architecture, public spaces and public forums?
Hitting the Free Market Slopes January 26, 2010
Larry Beinhart talks about the effects of privatizing businesses.
Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic November 24, 2009
Larry Beinhart knows how the US can extricate itself its current entanglement.
Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic October 28, 2009
Larry Beinhart questions the whether it’s good for America that the top one percent of households in the US account for more of the country’s financial net worth than the bottom 95 percent combined.
Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic September 25, 2009
Larry Beinhart suggests that perhaps we’re not ready for change.
Larry Beinhart's Body Politic August 27, 2009
Larry Beinhart mans the barricades in “Invasion of the Sexophobes."
Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic: Then There’s Republican Sex July 27, 2009
Larry Beinhart is perturbed by politicians’ hanky panky.
Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic: Of Health, Wealth, and Stealth June 25, 2009
Larry Beinhart breaks down the health care issue as he sees it.
Biff! Bang! Boom! (Crash!) March 26, 2009
With help from Batman and Robin, Larry Beinhart explains the theology of economy and Capitalism
Such Stimulation February 25, 2009
Larry Beinhart expresses his misgivings about the economic stimulus package.
Beinhart's Body Politic: A Media Guide to Terror, Torture, Morality, and War Crimes January 29, 2009
Life imitating the media. A commentary on the war on terrorism.
Beinhart’s Body Politic: Get Some New Religion December 22, 2008
The differences between old religion, new religion, and no religion.
Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic: Alan Shrugged November 24, 2008
Larry Beinhart slaps the invisible hand (and Alan Greenspan).
Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic: The New Know Nothings October 27, 2008
Larry Beinhart educates his readers about the Know Nothings of the 1840s and those who may, in this day and age, aim to follow their lead.
Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic: Reality Check September 25, 2008
Larry Beinhart chalks up the past four years, bad assumptions, delusions, the upcoming rockin’ and rollin’ roller coaster ride of a presidential election, and (of course) lipstick.
Body Politic August 25, 2008
Larry Beinhart envisions a starring role for George Bush in Russia’s invasion of Georgia, re-creating Neville Chamberlain’s infamous turn as the appeaser of Munich.
Body Politic July 28, 2008
Larry Beinhart reminds voters of the previous problems that have occurred when presidential candidates promised to stimulate economy with tax cuts.
Body Politic June 25, 2008
Larry Beinhart examines how Dennis Kucinich’s 35 articles of impeachment against George W. Bush were barely covered by the major news outlets in June and why they should have been.
Old Myths/New Truths May 27, 2008
Larry Beinhart addresses the myths of “The Great Republican Disaster.”
Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic April 29, 2008
Larry Beinhart reveals that the real start of the secession was seven years ago.
Larry Beinhart's Body Politics March 26, 2008
Larry Beinhart brings to light who the US would really be hurting by bombing Iran.
Larry Beinhart's Body Politics February 25, 2008
Larry Beinhart discusses the politics of evolution.
Beinhart's Body Politic January 24, 2008
It’s official. Talk of recession. We might or might not be in one.
Victory for Bush! January 23, 2008
In the past few months, against all odds, Bush has scored two incredible victories in Iraq.
They are, of course, over his favorite enemies, the media and the American public.
Beinhart's Body Politic December 21, 2007
If we really want to figure out what religion is about, we have to start with the assumption that God doesn’t exist.
This Month in God November 26, 2007
Larry Beinhart on downward-facing dogs and other Godly conundrums.
SECRETS October 24, 2007
The final installment of Larry Beinhart’s series on the perils of
government secrecy.
Lies, Lies, and More Lies, in History Illiterate America August 29, 2007
George Bush – and other Iraq War supporters – have argued that if we withdraw from Iraq the result will be like the slaughters – the killing fields –in Cambodia.
Beinhart's Body Politic: Secrets August 24, 2007
Common sense, certain events, and most of the great theoreticians make it seem self-evident that secrets are crucial in war.
Beinhart's Body Politic: Marketplace of Ideas August 01, 2007
In the marketplace of ideas the power of big money is kicking ass and rationality is down for the count.
Coming Out of the Republican Closet July 06, 2007
It is true that people tend to flock to groups that are like themselves. In their choice of neighborhoods, associations, and cliques.
Cost-Benefit Analysis June 21, 2007
The war in Iraq has cost about $434,000,000,000 (four hundred and thirty-four billion dollars) to date. Albany County’s share of this is $597 million; Ulster County is $354 million. So far.
The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Mitt Romney June 07, 2007
Will facts ever matter? Or will American politics remain a contest of bedtime stories for children?
Bushenomics June 04, 2007
The number one industry in America today is the money business—debt swapping.
Beinhart's Body Politic: Capitalism 105 May 30, 2007
When a government wants an economy to grow, it throws money at it.
Profiles in Cowardice May 24, 2007
I called Senator Hillary Clinton’s office to ask how she was going to vote on the Iraq supplemental appropriations bill without benchmarks. The staffer at the other end of the line said was studying the bill.
A Modest Proposal May 07, 2007
I will fight tooth and nail and move to Canada, before I let my daughter and my son become cannon fodder in a war that has been morally outrageous and ethically repugnant from the beginning.
The Republican Disease vs. Reality April 30, 2007
State Senator John Bonacic turned a small, tragic, local event, into a microcosm of the Republican disease. Like an opportunistic virus, when they sense a weak moment in possible hosts – us – they want to jump in and spread their infection, fear.
The Rise & Fall of America's Political Right April 28, 2007
There is no real name for the movement that took over America six years ago and continues run it. That’s part of the reason for its success. Its very vagueness makes it hard to attack. In actuality, it is not a single entity.
War Dispatches from the War on Stupidity April 19, 2007
General Petraeus, the man in charge of the initial failure, has been put in charge of a new plan that requires his original failure to magically reverse itself and which is also guaranteed, according to the mathematics of own theory, to fail.
A Secret Dispatch from the War on Stupidity April 17, 2007
If we knew today’s secrets, we would “know” that all the intelligence and Pentagon assessments are that the war in Iraq is already lost. And that the war in Afghanistan is being lost, too.
The Sex Lives of Presidents April 04, 2007
There was something deeply kinked in Nixon. Would more sex – even more adultery – have humanized him? Did his sex life – currently unknown – connect to his murderous cynicism? If the sex lives of presidents are to be a campaign issue, that’s a question to ask.
Beinhart's Body Politic March 30, 2007
The attorney general takes an oath to uphold the constitution and execute the law. When controversial matters come up, his role, traditionally, is often to be the guy who says, “We can’t do that, it’s against the law.”
Short Shots 2 March 29, 2007
It is now a conventional complaint on the Right that university faculties are dominated by liberals.
It’s true.
Beinhart's Body Politic December 27, 2006
Happy New Year. It feels like a year of change and hope. Then I realize, with a sense of real astonishment, that George Bush is still president.
Beinhart's Body Politic December 27, 2006
Larry Beinhart follows the yellow brick road of corruption, incompetence, and hypocrisy that led to the triumph of Democrats in the November election and the pulling back the curtain on The Wizard of Odds.