A range of article on the history of the late 1980s and 1990s

·       Willie Horton The Big Black Rapist in the Presidential Campaign of 1988

·       Willie Horton Ad: http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/candidates/ad.archive/horton.mov (this can take quite a long time to load, but is worth it.)

·       Culture Wars –excerpts from Who Built America   

·       Jesse Jackson before the Democratic Party Convention, 1988

·       Pat Buchanon The Election is About Who We are (1992 Republican National Convention)

·       Democrats Deal for Dollars , 1992

·       The Clinton Administration

·       The Worst Thing Bill Clinton Has Done Welfare Reform act of 1996

·       Corporate Welfare 

·       Stockman Returneth: The odd politics of late capitalism  Republicans are now the main deficit spenders

·       Thomas Frank on market populism – the ideological push to have the market solve everything

·       Mexican immigration and Prop 187  the real story, not the myth, of immigration

·       New Immigration

·       Mexican immigration

·        Excerpt, The Story of American Freedom

·       Intimate Matters: Sexual politics, aids, and the backlash;

·       AIDS segment from Intimate Matters

·       Aids and History http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/index-am.html#c22

·       Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood by Kristin Luker  

·       Immigration History 1970s-present

·       Multiculturalism in the workplace, 1998

·       Affirmative action , RIP

·       Two opposing perspectives on affirmative action-D’sousa and Wilkins

·       History of Opposition to Affirmative action  

·       Swollen Fortunes: Congress Feeds the Rich (Moberg, 2000) http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Class_War/Congress_Feeds_Rich.html

·       Rich Media Poor Democracy http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Media_control_propaganda/RichMedia_PoorDemo.html

·       Excerpts from book http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/McChesney/RichMedia_PoorDemocracy.html

·        U.S. Media at the Dawn of the 21st Century by Robert W. McChesney

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Project%20Censored/CommunicationRevol_PC.html

·       Prison-Industrial Complex (there are 3 parts to this article) http://www2.theatlantic.com/issues/98dec/prisons.htm

·       The Worst Thing Clinton Has Done—full version

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97mar/edelman/edelman.htm

·       Patrick Buchanon’s website http://www.theamericancause.org/

·       Profile of Pat Robertson http://members.tripod.com/~anthony_giacalone/pat_robertson.html

·       American consumerism 1970-present - Excerpt from Juliet Schor, “The Overspent American”  (1998)  

·       The Family Crisis Reconsidered  Excerpt from Stephanie Coontz, the Way we never were, a brilliant reconsideration of why the American family is blamed for the roots of modern crises, and an alternative explanation that will make you think hard about your place in politics

·       LA Before the Riots – the way that disinvestments caused the problems of LA

·       The LA "Riots" as a Multi-ethnic rebellion

·       Update on LAPD: Law and Disorder  http://past.thenation.com/cgi-bin/framizer.cgi?url=http://past.thenation.com/issue/000410/0410hayden.shtml

·       Statement to Congressional inquiry into alleged Central Intelligence Agency involvement in the south central Los Angeles crack cocaine drug trade  http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/pktstmny.htm

·       Jacquelyn Jones, American Others

·       Explaining Ruby Ridge see this also for hard-hitting analysis of the farm crisis of the 1990s

·       WalMart Warriors: How Walmart really got to the top, helped to destroy old downtowns, and how it has assisted urban sprawl http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020304&s=hightower

·       Suburban sprawl what has happened to create sprawl, and why?

·       Metropolis Unbound http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/print/V8/35/geddes-r.html

·           Fascinating alternatives to suburban sprawl, with models explained—compare Toronto (Northern Lights Section, 1/3 down) to Los Angeles development

·       Solving Sprawl http:// www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/report99/

o      http://www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/50statesurvey/illinois.asp

·       Property rights vs. community betterment

·       Can we save the inner city?

·       Urban poverty theory comes full circle  the poor in the 1990s

·       For Teenagers, Fast Food is a Snack, Not a Job

·       School Shootings and White Denial 

    More on Women in the Workforce and family issues

·       Poverty and the generation gap in early 1990s