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Op-Ed
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What Stinks in DC
It was one of those uncomfortable moments when you suddenly realize you're in the wrong place, that you're a rube from the sticks in a sophisticated city whose customs …
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I Ain’t Got No Home: (Re)learning the Value of Place and Occupying a Sustainable Future
Can we truly be at home in the marketplace? What kind of place is the marketplace, anyway, and how is it related to places like our communities, our homes, …
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Newt’s Tax Plan, and Why His Polls Rise the More Outrageous He Becomes
Newt Gingrich has done it again. With his new tax plan he has raised the bar from irresponsibility to recklessness. Every dollar estimate I’m about to …
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Surviving the Second Gilded Age
We refuse to support the politicians, think tanks, media and anti-public intellectuals who are pushing to create a Secon
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America’s Leaders Are Small, but Americans Are Not
"We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, …
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Follow English Commoners’ Lead: Band Together to Force Corporate Reform
In recent years, senior Wall Street managers relentlessly pursued short-term profit and personal windfalls by any and all means while bringing Main Street to its knees (where it remains …
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Pondering a Dire Day: Leaving the Euro
London - It would be Europe’s worst nightmare: after weeks of rumors, the Greek prime minister announces late on a Saturday night that the country will abandon the euro …
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Robert Reich: Are Mitt and Newt Channeling Their Inner Progressives?
Two important reforms are stopping the revolving door between Washington and the nation’s financial giants, and preventing financiers from flipping companies(making short-term profits by borrowing big sums to buy …
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The Disappearance of the Compassionate Conservatives
I would never have been mistaken as a political supporter of President George W. Bush. But in his early days as president, I was invited to have conversations with …
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Is Obama’s Teddy Roosevelt Rhetoric Just Talk?
Is Barack Obama changing? If so, many in the Occupy Wall Street Movement are patting their efforts on the back, and even claiming credit for what looks like a …