A union manufacturing job used to guarantee entry to the middle class. Now as Caterpillar and other profitable companies pay new employees less than the current ones for the same work that piece of the social contract is being rewritten. Also, Garry Wills on his new book What Jesus Meant and why religion and politics don’t mix. Plus: "Monday Morning Politics."
Straight Into the Hormuz Nest?
Romesh Ratnesar, world editor for Time
and
Chris Dickey, Paris bureau chief and middle east regional editor at Newsweek - on Iran, Iraq, Dubai, and domestic politics
» Romesh Ratnesar (Time)
» Chris Dickey's website
and
Chris Dickey, Paris bureau chief and middle east regional editor at Newsweek - on Iran, Iraq, Dubai, and domestic politics
» Romesh Ratnesar (Time)
» Chris Dickey's website
That Class-y Blue Collar
Louis Uchitelle, economic columnist for the New York Times and author, The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences (forthcoming from Knopf)
- says the line is blurring between middle and working class
» The Disposable American (Knopf)
- says the line is blurring between middle and working class
» The Disposable American (Knopf)
Jesus Speaks
Garry Wills, historian, scholar and author, What Jesus Meant (Viking, 2006)
- says neither left nor right can lay claim to doing as Jesus would do
» What Jesus Meant (Viking)
» Garry Will's articles in The New York Review ...
- says neither left nor right can lay claim to doing as Jesus would do
» What Jesus Meant (Viking)
» Garry Will's articles in The New York Review ...
Norton Utilities
Brad Knickerbocker, staff writer at the Christian Science Monitor,
-on Gale Norton's departure from the Department of the Interior
» "Why Interior is such a difficult agency to lead" by Brad Knickerbocker in the CS Monitor 3/13/06
-on Gale Norton's departure from the Department of the Interior
» "Why Interior is such a difficult agency to lead" by Brad Knickerbocker in the CS Monitor 3/13/06
Required Reading: March 13, 2006
Work begins on 9/11 memorial (NY Daily News)
Khalilzad expected to be picked to run Iraq instead of Bremer (NY Times)
Smaller newspaper group snaps up Knight-Ridder (NY Times)
Judge may throw out Moussaoui case over prosecutor's violation of court rules (Washington Post)
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