Political Media

Teachers Protest, NYPD Officers Don Riot Helmets

John Knefel |
12.20.2011
This morning I attended an event at Washington Irving High School, in Manhattan’s Gramercy neighborhood, to protest the proposed closing of the school. Gregg Lundahl, the ... ...read more

Occupy Wall Street Brings Class Consciousness to America

John Knefel |
10.10.2011
Americans are taught not to think about class. Embedded in our cultural identity is the myth that no matter the station into which one was born, any person can rise to the grea... ...read more

Anti-war video blog

John Knefel |
08.18.2011
I participated in a video-blog campaign for Kenneth Cole recently. Here’s the finished product. ...read more

Wall St., the London Riots, and the Age of Austerity

John Knefel |
08.10.2011
The wonderful WNYC program Radiolab recently aired a story on a man who can hear up to 4 different symphonies in his head at once. He could “play” them in his head ... ...read more

What You Need to Know About the Market Bounce

John Knefel |
08.09.2011
Monday saw the sixth-largest point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s history. Tuesday saw violent whipsaw action, with the DJIA ending almost 4% up after a lukew... ...read more

What You Need to Know About Today’s Market Crash

John Knefel |
08.08.2011
Markets are down in a big way today, continuing last week’s brutal slump. The Dow closed 634 points down. Attributing the sell-off to S&P downgrade is a mistake R... ...read more
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GOP budget amendment makes GOP budget proposal unconstitutional

John Knefel |
04.07.2011
1) All forty-seven Senate Republicans signed-off on a balanced budget amendment last week that would render all but two of the last 30 years’ budgets unconstitutional, in... ...read more

Madman Jim DeMint ties budget amendment to raising debt ceiling

John Knefel |
04.05.2011
Jim DeMint has said he will filibuster any attempt to raise the debt ceiling unless the GOP balanced budget amendment is passed, implicitly invoking a theory of neo-Mutual Assur... ...read more

Indiana official apparently taking crowd control cues from Qaddafi

John Knefel |
02.24.2011
An Indiana deputy attorney general has resigned after writing on Twitter that riots cops in Wisconsin should use “live ammunition” on protesters.  Hahahahaha, I hope... ...read more

Tom Friedman can’t praise Egyptians without insulting Palestinians

John Knefel |
02.08.2011
Thomas Friedman has made millions of dollars by writing poorly constructed metaphors and urging war on the Middle East.  It’s good work, if you can stomach it.  Now, howev... ...read more


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