Looking Backward

October 1, 2008 | This article appeared in the October 20, 2008 edition of The Nation.

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As America's second Gilded Age fissions around us, we can sense the zeitgeist shift. Are we staring into the abyss of 1929 or heading for a new New Deal?

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Steve Fraser

Steve Fraser is a visiting professor at New York University, co-founder of the American Empire Project, and the author...

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