Kim Phillips-Fein

Kim Phillips-Fein, an assistant professor at the Gallatin School of New York University, is the author of Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement From the New Deal to Reagan (Norton).

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  • Right On, 'Right On'!

    October 14, 2009 Subscribe

  • Right On

    September 9, 2009

    Traditionalists are at war with free-marketers, and the far right's resentment is deepening. Is conservatism dead?

2008

  • Living for the City

    December 22, 2008

    A biography of Robert Clifton Weaver traces the life and times of an often misunderstood urban reformer.

  • Hard Times

    March 20, 2008

    Amity Schlaes's history of the Great Depression is nothing less than an attempt to reclaim the 1930s for the free market.

2007

  • Deal Breakers

    November 21, 2007

    Two new books seek to galvanize progressives at a key political moment: Paul Krugman's The Conscience of a Liberal and Jonathan Chait's The Big Con.

2006

  • Letters

    April 6, 2006 Subscribe

  • Labor Pains

    February 16, 2006 Subscribe

    Robert Fitch's Solidarity for Sale exposes corruption as the cause of the current crisis in American labor.

2003

  • Texas, Inc.

    December 18, 2003 Subscribe

    Taking privatization to extremes, a new law ends the public sector as we knew it.

  • Victory at Yale?

    October 23, 2003

  • Yale Workers Win

    September 22, 2003

    How did the Yale workers win? Through militant picket lines and community support.

  • ...and the Poor Get Poorer

    July 17, 2003

    Collateral damage mounts in Bush's ideological war on the welfare state.

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Palin as the Church Lady | Going Rogue book tour brings passive-aggressive rightwing Christianity to the fore.
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Slacker Friday | The "Second Amendment" sale; the raving paranoids of the right.
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» Editor's Cut

An Alternative to Escalation in Afghanistan | President Obama is expected to make a decision regarding his Afghanistan strategy after Thanksgiving.
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» The Beat

House Rebels Force Fed Audit, Real Economy Onto Agenda | Frank's Financial Services Committee becomes focal point for revolts by members who worry about powerful banks and unemployment.
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» The Dreyfuss Report

Chongqing: Socialism in One City | China is managing the most important event in the world: the urbanization of half a billion people. Fast.
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» Act Now!

Toward Copenhagen | A guide to joining the movement against climate change.
Peter Rothberg
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