The Public Eye, Fall 2014

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PRA's special issue of The Public Eye magazine exposes the drive behind U.S. neoliberal policies and initiatives.

In this issue

From the New Right to Neoliberalism

The Threat to Democracy Has Grown

President Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Mexican President Carlos Salinas participate in the initialing ceremony of the North American Free Trade Agreement in San Antonio, Texas.

The U.S. is in the grip of an unprecedented dominance of right-wing ideologies and policies. Many progressive commentators see that the same band of New Right actors that have long pushed a conservative agenda are up to their old tricks, trying to…

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Manufactured Emergency

The Neoliberal Assault on Michigan

Those who want to privatize public services and destroy unions have made some successful incursions into the once union-friendly state. Whether Michiganders can mount an effective resistance remains to be seen.

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A group of women at a table, with computers and books.

To say that Sheryl Sandberg ruined my life would be to make the same mistake that Sandberg herself makes—it would be to assume that the successes or failures of an individual woman, feminist or no, equal the successes or failures of feminism.…

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A person carrying a sign that reads "Human need not corporate greed"

In 2011, Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc., a corporate partner of the Marriott hotel chain, used a general contractor that it had hired to renovate guest rooms at the Host-owned Copley Marriott in Boston. A convoluted web of subcontractors emerged…

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A group of protesters led by Dr. Rev. William Barber II

An Interview with Rev. Dr. William Barber II, President, North Carolina NAACP

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Protesters wearing masks. One protester holding a sign that says "The system isn't broken it was built this way."

As White supremacists shifted tactics in response to mass social movements, they needed a mass electoral base. Neoliberals helped build it for them—and colorblindness helped wipe out some inconvenient historical truths.

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Beyond Prisons, Mental Health Clinics

When Austerity Opens Cages, Where Do the Services Go?

Barbed wire in a spiral form outside a brown building.

Neoliberal policies that result in institutional closures carry a cost, too. Could communities seize the moment to redirect resources toward self-determination and liberation?

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An Uncharitable Choice

The Faith-Based Takeover of Federal Programs

Two presidents in a row have increasingly steered federal grants and contracts to conservative Christian groups—including houses of worship.

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When NAFTA was passed two decades ago, its boosters promised it would bring “First World” status for the Mexican people. Instead, it prompted a great migration north.

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Friedrich von Hayek, Thomas Piketty, and the Search for Political Economy

Seventy years after the Right embraced von Hayek’s manifesto, does Piketty’s rock-star reception portend a new revolution?

The response to Piketty from liberal audiences, eager to find an analysis deeper than a Paul Krugman column, reflects not only the economic politics of our own time. It also indicates a longing, however tentative, to bring these economic questions…

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The Public Eye, Fall 2014

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From the New Right to Neoliberalism

Manufactured Emergency

Neoliberal Feminists Don’t Want Women to Organize

The Shell Game of Contingent Employment

To Shock the Heart of the Nation

How Colorblindness Co-Evolved with Free-Market Thinking

Beyond Prisons, Mental Health Clinics

An Uncharitable Choice

Globalization and NAFTA Caused Migration from Mexico

Friedrich von Hayek, Thomas Piketty, and the Search for Political Economy