Peter Dreier

Los Angeles

Teacher, writer, activist, father of twins, former soccer coach, ex-gov't official, baseball fanatic, optimist, cheerleader for social justice

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Whatever Happened to the Power Elite?

1 week ago | newrepublic.com | Peter Dreier

American democracy, it’s blindingly evident, is in crisis. Terms that once characterized faraway repressive regimes—oligarchy, elite, plutocracy—are now invoked to describe the current political moment.
Whatever Happened to the Power Elite?

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Peter Dreier

American democracy, it’s blindingly evident, is in crisis. Terms that once characterized faraway repressive regimes—oligarchy, elite, plutocracy—are now invoked to describe the current political moment.
Incoherent Heroism

2 weeks ago | dissentmagazine.org | Michael Kazin |Bob Master |Peter Dreier |Donald Cohen

Incoherent Heroism Trump’s National Garden of American Heroes will be a monument to randomness and a lazy, perhaps unthinking, version of the ideology he is supposed to despise. &squarf; May 1, 2025 Since Donald Trump took office in January, the National Endowment for the Humanities has cancelled thousands of grants, including ones it had already awarded.
Brooklyn Dodger 1, Draft Dodger 0

1 month ago | thenation.com | Peter Dreier

Culture / March 24, 2025 Brooklyn Dodger 1, Draft Dodger 0Donald Trump picked on the wrong athlete. Even though Jackie Robinson died in 1972, last week he bested Trump in a contest about the role of racism and the civil rights movement.
Contributor: Should the Dodgers balk at a White House invitation this year?

2 months ago | latimes.com | Kelly Candaele |Peter Dreier

In 2019, Mookie Betts, then an outfielder for the Boston Red Sox, refused President Trump’s invitation to visit the White House, along with eight of his teammates and the Red Sox manager, Alex Cora. The Red Sox were the World Series champs and the invite was standard presidential photo-op protocol.
Bob Dylan Biopic and the Origin Story of an Electrified Maggie’s Farm

2 months ago | portside.org | Peter Dreier

Bob Dylan Biopic and the Origin Story of an Electrified Maggie’s Farm Published February 20, 2025 The remarkable Bob Dylan bio-pic A Complete Unknown has been nominated for eight Oscars—best picture, actor, supporting actor, supporting actress, director, costume design, sound, and adapted screenplay.
Bob Dylan Biopic and the Origin Story of an Electrified Maggie's Farm

2 months ago | smirkingchimp.com | Peter Dreier

The remarkable Bob Dylan bio-pic A Complete Unknown has been nominated for eight Oscars—best picture, actor, supporting actor, supporting actress, director, costume design, sound, and adapted screenplay.
Bob Dylan Biopic and the Origin Story of an ElectrifiMaggie's Farm | Common Dreams

2 months ago | commondreams.org | Peter Dreier

The remarkable Bob Dylan bio-pic A Complete Unknown has been nominated for eight Oscars—best picture, actor, supporting actor, supporting actress, director, costume design, sound, and adapted screenplay.
The Battle Over Los Angeles's Mansion Tax

Jan 22, 2025 | dissentmagazine.org | Peter Dreier |Andrew Elrod |William Kornblum

The Battle Over Los Angeles’s Mansion Tax The Measure ULA campaign shows how a housing-labor coalition can transform the political landscape, even in the face of staunch special interest reaction. &squarf; Winter 2025 Carlos Casillas, a fifty-year-old renter in Los Angeles, lives in a 150-square-foot studio apartment in Highland Park, a longtime Latino neighborhood that has been gentrifying. The rent is $1,450 a month. “I had no choice,” he said. “I needed a place to live.
Martin Luther King Would be Protesting at Trump’s Inauguration | Common Dreams

Jan 20, 2025 | commondreams.org | Peter Dreier

Few Americans will miss the irony that Donald Trump’s inauguration is taking place on Martin Luther King Day. Trump might even use the occasion to offer disingenuous lip service to King’s achievements, but is difficult to imagine two public figures who are more different than the social justice warrior and the billionaire autocrat.