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You Don’t Miss Your Union ’Til the Well Runs Dry

by Geoff Rips | Jun 1, 2015 | Politics

…this new organizing model to take hold. Geoff Rips is a former Open Society Fellow of the Soros Foundation and author of UnAmerican Activities, The Truth, and most recently The Calculus of Falling Bodies, a book of poems. This article appears in the…

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Bad Fences Make Bad Neighbors

by Geoff Rips | Jul 1, 2014 | Books

…hey make it without getting caught.” To paraphrase Ma Joad: They keep a-comin’ because they’re the people. Geoff Rips is a former editor of the Texas Observer and the author of The Truth, a novel….

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Spying: The Great American Tradition

by Geoff Rips | Jan 31, 2014 | Media

…stic intelligence agencies seems to be that they do it because they can and until we catch them. That’s no way to run a democratic country. Geoff Rips is a contributor to The Washington Spectator and author of UNAMERICAN ACTIVITIES: The Campaign Again…

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Trying to Tell the People

by Geoff Rips | Nov 20, 2013 | Politics

…ll a note from the mouth of the bronze bull (the Golden Calf grown up) to tell us what we’re supposed to do next.   Geoff Rips is a former editor of the Texas Observer and a regular contributor to The Washington Spectator.  …

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America’s Berlin Wall

by Geoff Rips | Oct 31, 2013 | Politics

…an,” could have said, “Soy un ciudadano de la frontera [I am a citizen of the border].” Geoff Rips is a former editor of the Texas Observer….

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