The Progressive’s Guide to Raising Hell: HOW TO WIN GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGNS, PASS BALLOT BOX LAWS, AND GET THE CHANGE WE VOTED FOR
Change is no simple matter in American politics-a fact that Americans have recently learned well. Elections rarely produce the change they promise. After the vote, power vacuums fill with familiar values, if not faces. Promises give way to fiscal realities, hope succumbs to pragmatism, and ambition concedes to inertia. The old tricks of interest groups – confuse, diffuse, scare – prevail over the better angels of American nature.But populist energy can get change making and change-makers back on the right track.
Corporateering HOW CORPORATE POWER STEALS YOUR PERSONAL FREEDOM… AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT
Enron. Tyco. Arthur Andersen. These companies have turned “corporate” into a four-letter word as headline after headline reveals shocking stories of executives stealing money from investors. But money isn’t all that corporations steal. In Corporateering, Jamie Court shows how corporations routinely and quietly rob us of our personal freedoms, including privacy, security, the right to legal recourse, and more. In fact, “corporateering”-the act of prioritizing commercial gain over individual, social, or cultural gain-is everywhere in our lives.
Making a Killing What HMO Insurance means for your health, and who really profits from the managed-care system.
Jamie Court and Francis Smith take on the corporate world of managed healthcare and explain, in plain language, what HMOs Insurance means for your health, and who really profits from the managed-care system.