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Dan La Botz on the state of labor • Stephanie Coontz on families yesterday & today • Robert Fatton on the history and social structure of Haiti (two shows: latest a new interview, and week earlier, reprise of 2004 interviews) • Tom Geoghegan on the Senate filibuster • Alyssa Katz on the housing market and what to do with all those see-through condos • Michael Rose on 2010 economic projections • Cyrus Bina on Iran • David Himmselstein on health reform • Dennis Brutus, in memoriam • Sam Gindin on the working class and politics • Lucia Green-Weiskel on Copenhagen, China, and climate politics • Gar Lipow on a post-carbon future • Kevin Alexander Gray on Obama and black America • Greg Grandin on Honduras etc. • Barbara Ehrenreich on compuslory optimism • Letitia James and Dana Berliner on eminent domain • Heidi Shierholz on the EPI jobs program • Doug Henwood on financial regulation • Bob Meister on the University of California crisis • Curt Ellis on toxic ag • Joel Schalit on Israel etc. • David Arkush and Tyson Slocum on financial regulation • Monty Neill on education • Bruce Bartlett on the death of Reaganomics • Lauren Weber praises cheapness....

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recently posted

Move your money: Looking behind Huffington’s loopy scheme to sanitize wealth

Web of nonsense: Why it’s so hard to separate finance from the real, and why it’s so tempting to try

The limits of anti-racism: Adolph Reed Jr. on how being against racism isn’t really all that political

(the above, in German)

see Michael Yates’s piece on Chávez & the UFW, discussed in this interview, here