America's Democrats

A nation in a deep economic and moral crisis.


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A nation in a deep economic and moral crisis. 

 

Celine-Marie Pascale is a professor of sociology at American University in Washington, D.C., and author of Living on the Edge: When Hard Times Become a Way of Life.

Celine-Marie Pascale

Celine-Marie Pascale traveled the country to talk with people who are experiencing economic hardship. Her book Living on the Edge is about more than individual experiences. It’s about a nation in a deep economic and moral crisis. 

Jim Hightower

 

How Corporate Greed is Causing Tornado Deaths

 

Corporate America has proudly elevated good moral values to a special place. That place is the trash can.

 

Indeed, free market gurus assert that the only ethical obligation a corporation has to society is to deliver as much profit as possible to its big investors – everybody else be damned.

Robert Costa

A Nation in "Peril."

 

The transition from Trump to Biden was one of the most dangerous periods in American history. "Peril" tells that story. The book's co-author (with Bob Woodward) is Robert Costa, a national political reporter at The Washington Post, where he has worked since 2014. He previously served as moderator and managing editor of Washington Week on PBS and as a political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. 

 

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