"For at least 35 years in this country, we have been exposed to politicians’ arguments that say the worst thing you can do about poverty is to help the poor, because it only worsens the character problems that are at root in accounting for their poverty."

"There are abundant resources available in this country, and that could be made more accessible, more available, to address poverty and all the systemic injustices that are wrapped up within poverty, if there was a political will to do that."

"We see high prices, recurring shortages and declining innovation, but also these issues about drug safety and mass marketing, as kind of the natural outcomes of an industry that is oriented around the singular goal of maximizing profit."

"There are the theoretical rights that Muslim Americans in particular are entitled to. And then there's what happens when their rights are made to compete with the state."

Elite media coverage of poverty has long centered questions of measuring it at the expense of ideas about ending it.

The whole idea of the "terrorist watchlist," created in a context of anti-Islamic bias and ignorance, is untenable, and the whole frame of Muslims vs. national security needs to be upended.

"All of the rollbacks that we've seen across the government in so many different areas, and across so many different agencies, have been even more radical and extreme that even I expected."

"We see permanent war, and that has gone throughout post-9/11. The Bush administration, the Obama administration, continued those wars, and Obama used drones in seven different countries."

New Yorkers who were here for September 11 remember vigils, hugs from strangers and signs all over the streets reading, "Our grief is not a cry for war." But war is what came, to the delight of many in media—first to Afghanistan,

On the 18th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, as the illegal US occupation of Afghanistan continues as the longest overseas war in American history, corporate media defended the “forever war” by concern-trolling over an “overly hasty” withdrawal.