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Revisiting the past to illuminate the present.
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History’s Mad Hatters: The Strange Career of Tea Party Populism
*This article was originally printed on www.tomdispatch.com. On a winter’s day in Boston in 1773, a rally of thousands at
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Barbarism and Progress: The Story of Convict Labor Sweatshop labor is back with a vengeance. It ranges across broad stretches
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There is nothing new about opposition to public sector unionism. It has been a feature of American life for over
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Marx was wrong. He famously declared that “the tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains
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The current recession has been brutal on manufacturing workers. Between December 2007 and December 2009, over two million of the
Read moreIn the Rearview Mirror: When Congress Roared
Whatever the complex causes of our economic calamity, no one doubts the culpability of the financial and business elite. Their
Read moreIN THE REARVIEW MIRROR History’s Mad Hatters: The Strange Career of Tea Party Populism
On a winter’s day in Boston in 1773, a rally of thousands at Faneuil Hall to protest a new British
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