Joel Wendland-Liu

Joel Wendland-Liu is the author of Mythologies: A Political Economy of U.S. Literature in the Long Nineteenth-Century and The Collectivity of Life: Spaces of Social Mobility and the Individualism Myth. He is currently finishing his book project titled “Simply to Be Americans? Literary Radicalism and Early U.S. Monopoly Capitalism.”

LATEST ARTICLES BY Joel Wendland-Liu

U.S.

American public behind climate change bill
September 23, 2009 By Joel Wendland-Liu
While a strong majority of American voters continue to support climate change legislation which would control pollution that causes global warming and would create a new generation of "green jobs," much of corporate America and its...
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U.S.

Repeal of DOMA introduced in House
September 19, 2009 By Joel Wendland-Liu
The House of Representatives took a step this week toward repealing the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the 1996 federal ban on marriage equality that singles out same-sex couples for exclusion, when a group of more...
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U.S.

Senate health bill harms immigrants, children
September 19, 2009 By Joel Wendland-Liu
Provisions in the initial draft of the Senate Finance Committee's health reform proposal dealing with immigration issues has sparked outrage from immigration reform advocates. Frank Sharry, executive director of America's Voice, on a conference call with...
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U.S.

CNN’s Lou Dobbs in bed with hate group
September 15, 2009 By Joel Wendland-Liu
Hate-based, anti-immigrant propaganda has poisoned not only the health care debate but is also distorting the public discussion about immigration reform, charged a group of civil rights, immigration reform advocacy and media watchdog organizations this week.
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U.S.

President Obama details health reform principles
September 13, 2009 By Joel Wendland-Liu
On the heels of President Obama's speech to Congress on health reform this week, White House Domestic Policy Council Director Melody Barnes stated that the administration has learned some important lessons about that issue coming out...
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U.S.

President Obama details health reform principles
September 12, 2009 By Joel Wendland-Liu
On the heels of President Obama's speech to Congress on health reform this week, White House Domestic Policy Council Director Melody Barnes stated that the administration has learned some important lessons about that issue coming out...
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Labor

Labor-led alliance pressures Wal-Mart for change
September 5, 2009 By Joel Wendland-Liu
Unveiling a new "American values agenda" this week, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union launched a new coalition of labor unions, worker advocacy groups, environmental groups, faith-based communities and consumer protection organizations to "hold Wal-Mart...
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World

Caster Semenya: Who’s really confused about gender?
August 24, 2009 By Joel Wendland-Liu
It's Kafka-esque. A small number of specialists have been ordered to determine if South Africa's international champion in the women's 800 meter race, Caster Semenya, is really a woman. After her blazing victory and complaints from...
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