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After the Fall

by Geoff Rips | Dec 15, 2011 | Books, Economy

As Lawrence Lessig explains in Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress — and a Plan to Stop It (TWELVE, 383 pp., $26.99), the disastrous nibble for American democracy was the change in the relationship between money and power. It may not have been a fall from Eden, but it was a headlong descent from the […]

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Newt Gingrich and Our Dysfunctional Congress

by WS Editors | Dec 15, 2011 | Politics

Frank is one of the brightest (and most obnoxious) members of the House. From up close, he watched Gingrich ascend to power. While I was writing a book on Tom DeLay, Frank told me that Gingrich promised to be a “transformational” leader, then succeeded in changing how business is conducted in the House. “He disregarded […]

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The Quiet Defunding of the OTA

by Alison Fairbrother | Dec 15, 2011 | Politics

In 1995, the OTA was the smallest federal agency, with a budget of less than $22 million. It was bipartisan, governed by a board of six Republicans and six Democrats from the House and the Senate. And it was responsive to requests for assessments from chairs and ranking members of House and Senate committees. During […]

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At the Onset of Winter, Questions for a Bullish Movement

by Todd Gitlin | Dec 1, 2011 | Culture, Economy

It’s been ten weeks since, on September 17, a few hundred pioneers plunked themselves down in Zuccotti Park (more a patch of sunless concrete than a park, actually), renaming it Liberty Square and turning it into a sort of communal homestead and visible sore spot, reminding those who needed reminding that the wildness of markets […]

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How Will We Remember Operation Iraqi Freedom?

by John Tirman | Nov 15, 2011 | Foreign Policy, Politics

Everything about the war — its origins, its course, its failures and achievements — is contested. But it has already been placed in a frame that portrays it, like U.S. wars in Korea and Vietnam, as a mistake born of good intentions, ennobled by brave soldiers and mangled by confused and self-interested politicians. A small […]

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Bad Faith Documentary

Bad Faith

“A great and powerful and timely film” – Ken Burns

Critics are raving about BAD FAITH, the sensational expose of Christian Nationalism from directors Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones

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“One of the Ten Best Films of 2024”Variety

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