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Economy
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Who’s a Freeloader?
A year ago, Vanessa Williamson, Theda Skocpol, and John Coggin published a paper based on their in-depth interviews of Tea Party activists. A longer presentation of their research was published as a book a …
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US Auto Industry Is Much More Than the Sum of Its Parts
Industrial robots assemble a 2012 Chevrolet Sonic at the General Motors Orion Assembly Plant in Lake Orion, Michigan. (Photo: Fabrizio Costantini / The New York Times) …
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The Republican Party’s Long Decline Leads to Irrationality
(Image: CartoonArts International / The New York Times Syndicate) The economist Brad DeLong notes that the Republican Party we now see in the primaries has …
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The Private Prison Industry: Resistance Isn’t Futile
The private prison industry is on the march. In recent months the industry moved to take over 24 state prisons in southern Florida and buy five prisons in Ohio. …
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The Widening Wealth Divide, and Why We Need a Surtax on the Super Wealthy
Let Santorum and Romney duke it out for who will cut taxes on the wealthy the most and shred the public services everyone else depends on. The rest of …
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Cuts And Consequences – How Budget Cuts Hurt the Economy
Is smaller government really better for the economy? Conservatives chant that taxes and government “take money out of the economy” and we need to “cut and grow,” meaning if …
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The Precarious Jobs Recovery
February’s 227,000 net new jobs – the third month in a row of job gains well in excess of 200,000 – is good news for President Obama and …
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Five Bucks a Gallon
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Burma’s Turn
Yangon - Here in Myanmar (Burma), where political change has been numbingly slow for a half-century, a new leadership is trying to embrace rapid transition from within. The government …
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Politicians Won’t Return Ponzi Payoffs
Robert Allen Stanford. (Photo: Michael Stravato / The New York Times) On Tuesday, Texas financier Robert Allen Stanford was convicted in a Houston federal court on 13 …