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The Strange Arcane: On George Saunders (Books & Arts, Class, Books and Ideas, Fiction, Humor, Literature)

In the short stories of Tenth of December, the impression of chaos belies a careful design.

Aaron Thier
Girls and Shameless
What 'Girls' and 'Shameless' Teach Us About Being Broke, and Being Poor (Class, Media, Poverty, Society)

Girls’s Hannah and Shameless’s Fiona are both penniless twentysomethings finding their way through big cities, but Hannah has a college degree—and a safety net.

Nona Willis Aronowitz
Edward P. Jones
Motives and Apprehensions: On Edward P. Jones (Books & Arts, Class, Racism and Discrimination, Fiction, Slavery in America)

Edward P. Jones’s characters know that everything they’ve worked for might suddenly be taken from them.

Aaron Thier
Zadie Smith
I'm Nobody, Who Are You? On Zadie Smith's 'NW' (Books & Arts, Class, Race and Religion, Fiction)

If you get to the top, only to find that the voice hounding you with charges of inauthenticity is your own, what then?

Alexandra Schwartz
The great divergence
The Great Disparity (Class, Racism and Discrimination, Non-fiction, Books and the Arts)

Timothy Noah and Charles Murray offer starkly different explanations of growing economic and social inequality in the United States.

William Julius Wilson
Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney
Romney and Santorum: Two Faces of GOP Capitalism (Class, Conservatives and the American Right, Election 2012)

There may be tension but there isn’t a class war within the Republican Party, because they’re all on the same side.

Gary Younge
David Montgomery, Grand Master Workman (Class, Lived History, Labor)

 A pioneering historian convinced that another world was possible, and that working people would create it for themselves.

Dana Frank
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The 99 percent movement
The Making of the 99% (Class, Occupy Wall Street, Activism)

With the Occupy movement, what started as a diffuse protest against economic injustice became a vast experiment in class building.

Barbara Ehrenreich and John Ehrenreich
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Video: 'We Need to Occupy Our Democracy' (Class, Occupy Wall Street, Economics)

The real public nuisance is the big money that has engulfed our democracy—and mass demonstrations are the only effective way for “real people” to be heard.

Robert Reich
Robert Reich on Occupy Wall Street: 'You Can't Stop This Once It's Started' (Class, Occupy Wall Street, Economy)

In this new video series, Reich takes on corporate influence in the political system and economic inequality in a way that only the former secretary of labor can.

MoveOn.org

Blogs

What a Spare $1 Million Can Buy
The Notion

BP's CEO "got his life back" by going yachting, and the rest of the world's millionaires are doing OK, too. But one Gulf fisherman would rather have something else than money.

June 22, 2010
Service Cuts Come From Low Taxes
The Notion

 How could there be trillions of dollars in government aid for banks and insurance companies and so little left over for schools, health and transit?

May 12, 2010
Extend Unemployment Insurance Now
Peter Rothberg

This week will be a critical one for millions of Americans surviving on unemployment insurance.

February 22, 2010
Ideas for Change in America
Peter Rothberg

As today's young adults struggle to balance the rising costs of a postsecondary education with countless other financial obligations, many public universities burdened with budget cuts and debt are drastically slashing financial aid packages, driving up the cost of tuition and making a previously accessible college degree virtually unaffordable to many.

February 19, 2010
Groundhog's Day Budgeting: Again, Obama Underfunds Job Growth
John Nichols

The 2009 stimulus bill that was supposed to spur job creation at a sufficient rate to prevent double-digit unemployment might have done so if it had been approved at the level and with the focus intended by the serious players in the U.S. House who initially crafted a real response to the recession.

February 1, 2010
Prankly, My Dear, They Don't Give a Damn
The Notion

You know how you can tell the Age of Reagan has ended? Because at his State of the Union address, Barack Obama didn't do any of those ordinary-folks-who-make-a-difference shout-outs to the gallery, as every POTUS (that is, Populist of the United States) has since the Gipper's first SOTU in 1982. But if Obama had called on someone, given the frustrated and hectoring nature of his speech, I bet I know who he would have liked to ask to stand up and take a bow: James O'Keefe, the putative pimp and ACORN slayer.

January 29, 2010
Blocking Bernanke is Smart Economics, Smart Politics for Dems
John Nichols

If the Democratic Party wants to lose – or, to be more precise, wants to lose badly in 2010 and 2012, it need only maintain its current loyalty to the most powerful interests on Wall Street.

January 25, 2010
Diapers 101
Peter Rothberg

Did you know that diapers are not covered by public assistance programs like WIC or food stamps? And did you know that diaper companies do not make significant donations to shelters or outreach programs, as infant formula manufacturers do? That makes diapers one of the scarcest resources for poor families.

January 8, 2010
Wade Rathke Speaks Out
Christopher Hayes

Just a few weeks ago, a book talk by ACORN founder Wade Rathke wouldn't have drawn much press attention, but the organization's recent notoriety as a conservative boogeyman has thrust Rathke back in the spotlight.

September 30, 2009
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