Secretary Kerry just released a statement sort taking back his off-the-record remark that without a two state solution Israel faces a future as an apartheid state. That’s unfortunate because he’s actually doing Israel a big favor by saying this. But I like the way he also threads the needle – saying, in essence, these are the facts, two former Israeli Prime Ministers and the current Minister in charge of negotiations with the Palestinians have made the same argument with the same word but it’s better if I don’t use the word even though it’s true.
Statement after the jump …
Dylan Scott on the NAACP’s long, strange relationship with wealthy racist Donald Sterling.
Coming off of the news of a new study saying that the U.S. is closer to an “oligarchy” than a democracy, academic Nick Carnes brings up his own research that might just explain why: We keep electing the rich to public office. Carnes writes, “just 3 percent [of members of Congress] came from the kinds of working-class jobs that the majority of Americans hold.”
Looks like desperate right-wing efforts to make Sterling into the “Democrat Bundy” have taken a bit of a hit.
Turns out he’s a registered Republican.
Jonathan Taplin explains the deal with the new FCC decision that everyone seems to be freaking out about that creates a separate track for video streaming. He should know — he helped write the principles the new decision is based on back in 2006.
Why was the LA NAACP in bed with Donald Sterling when there was a long history or racist attitudes and business practices?
A good look at how Republicans nationwide tied themselves to Cliven Bundy and then were shocked when they sank with him.
As the “not racist” movement comes of age with leaders like Trump, Bundy and Sterling, we remember this pioneer in the movement from the middle of last decade. Video after the jump …
Leader of the “not racist” movement, Donald Trump, claims Sterling was “set up.”