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There Are Jobs for Those Who Want Them. (Not)
The New York Times on Wednesday featured another Casey Mulligan episode of “There Is No Unemployment.” Mulligan's argument is that if we look at employment rates for the older …
EXCLUSIVE: The Deficit Is Not Default of Obama
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Virginia) speaks to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 11, 2011. (Photo: Stephen Crowley / The New York Times) …
Paul Theroux’s “Tao of Travel“
(Image: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Last month, author Paul Theroux published his latest book “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road.” Over the course of …
A Story of the Earth Liberation Front: An Interview With Documentarian Marshall Curry
Filmmaker Marshall Curry. (Photo: Bill Gallagher) When John Muir formed the Sierra Club in 1892 and fought to pass the National Parks Bill in 1899, it is …
Amid the Murdoch Scandal, There Is the Acrid Smell of Business as Usual
Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief execuive of News Corp., during an interview in his office in New York on Thursday, May 3, 2007. (Photo: James Estrin / The New …
How Not to Make Friends in the Greater Middle East
In the method, there is madness; in the comedy, nightmare; in the tragedy, farce. And despite everything, there’s still good news when it comes to what Americans …
Corporate America’s Sunshine Patriots
We went to Mount Vernon in Virginia a few weeks ago. It was the first time I'd been to George Washington's family estate since a whirlwind day tour of …
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“Dysfunctional” Too Polite to Describe Tea Party Congress
As America lurches toward new and unfamiliar status as a nation that defaults on its debts, commentators around the world are wondering how the democratic government that was once …
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Blowing Up the House
Washington - Media reports are touting the Senate’s Gang of Six and its new budget outline. But the news that explains why the nation is caught in this debt-ceiling …
The Current Political Landscape, Ideology vs. Reality
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) at a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, on July 15, 2011. (Photo: Philip Scott Andrews / The New York Times) …