Robert S. Becker
For over a decade, Robert S. Becker's independent, rebel-rousing essays on politics and culture analyze overall trends, history, implications, messaging and frameworks. He has been published widely, aside from Nation of Change and RSN, with extensive credits from OpEdNews (as senior editor), Alternet, Salon, Truthdig, Smirking Chimp, Dandelion Salad, Beyond Chron, and the SF Chronicle. Educated at Rutgers College, N.J. (B.A. English) and U.C. Berkeley (Ph.D. English), Becker left university teaching (Northwestern, then U. Chicago) for business, founding SOTA Industries, a top American high end audio company he ran from '80 to '92. From '92-02, he was an anti-gravel mining activist while doing marketing, business and writing consulting. Since then, he seeks out insight, even wit in the shadows, without ideology or righteousness across the current mayhem of American politics.
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Donald the Dunce: He flunked Poli Sci 101
It’s hard to cheat when the whole world is watching...
House Dems bring forth new bill defending the USPS
“Millions of people rely on the Postal Service every day to communicate, to access critical medications, and to vote.”
You can fight voter suppression–Here’s how
It’s easy to get angry or worried and throw your hands up, but there is something you can do right now.
Reactionaries in ragged retreat: A wingnut brew of bottom-dwellers
Trump politics are in shambles, whatever he and lackeys try boomerang, and why should anything change in the next five months?
Lawsuit filed after police handcuff 8-year-old boy on video
“My son has a disability and the authorities tried to make him a criminal.”