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A vacation from taxation?
Here’s a deligthful coincidence: In the same week, Mitt Romney’s VP candidate Paul Ryan declares “Let’s make this country
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Back in Brooklyn
Back in Brooklyn after 3500 miles across the country of my birth. I barely recognize it anymore after 4 years in New York City: long, rolling
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A response to Joe Nocera
Joe Nocera writes that Occupy has neglected to engage with the “larger world”. The truth is the opposite: While we grow solidarity
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Occupy: A Template for a New Kind of Leadership
In the early days of OWS, many media outlets quickly converged on Zuccotti Park to figure out who the real “leaders” of OWS were. (I
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It’s time for a Debt Holiday, America.
Friends, Do you remember the buzz around Washington this time last year when a bunch of corporations were pleading – with high-priced
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Let’s talk about “entitlement”
Citigroup: $2.5 trillion ($2,500,000,000,000) Morgan Stanley: $2.04 trillion ($2,040,000,000,000) Merrill Lynch: $1.949 trillion