David Sirota - In These Times

David Sirota is an awardwinning investigative journalist and an In These Times senior editor. He served as speech writer for Bernie Sanders’ 2020 campaign. Follow him on Twitter @davidsirota.

Promoting Militarism While Hiding Bloodshed

America’s Energy Ethos: Do, Regardless of Harm

Cutting Kids’ Healthcare Will Make Deficits Bigger

Time To Crackdown on Child-Focused Ads

Turning the Camera on the Police

Bin Laden Mission Evokes More Questions Than Answers

The High Cost of Cheap War

Why the Fat Guy Should Lose His Privilege

Beware of Vampire Squids and Their Stadium Schemes

Ikea Joins the Race to the Bottom

The Real Madness of March

Lessons of Libya

Mad Scientists in the Laboratories of Democracy

In Celebrities We Trust: An Excerpt From ‘Back to Our Future’

How Michael Jordan and the 1980s reshaped American politics.

The ‘80s Origins of Today’s Anti-Muslim Bigotry

State Budget Crises Mean New Language of Deceit

Two Public Pay Standards, One Statement of Values

The Submerged State

The Super Bowl of Socialism

With Democracy or Against It—There’s No In Between

From Quality to Quantity-and Maybe Back Again

Is America Too Corrupt To Keep Up?

The Money Paradox

A Snow-Filled Glimpse Of America’s Future

Faces of Economic Death

Why the ‘Lazy Jobless’ Myth Persists

To Deter Crime, Get Tough on Wall Street

The High Cost of Low Price

From Uprising to Hostile Takeover…and Back Again

It’s the Stupidity, Stupid

The Tea Party Test Case

Follow Wyoming on Fracking Regs

The Real Democratic Whiners

What the Pot Legalization Campaign Really Threatens

Synthetic Novelty Is Not Reality

The Neoliberal Bait-and-Switch

Despite Celebration, the Iraq War Continues

Lessons from a Low-Impact Week

Insanity Is Deja Vu All Over Again

Elites’ Democratic Days Are Numbered

The Stadium-Mob Mentality

The Deception of Real-World Inception

Are Low Taxes Exacerbating the Recession?

A New Deregulatory Push In the Energy Heartland

After 41 Years, A Belated Victory for Butter

Putting the ‘I’ in the Environment

From Self-Sacrifice to Hedonism

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