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Peter Kornbluh on Obama and Cuba, Salamishah Tillet on boycotting marriage, George Zornick on Eric Griego v. Wall Street crooks, plus a new project on poverty by Barbara Ehrenreich and the Institute for Policy Studies.

O’Reilly and his crew cooked up the wacky theory this week that the Institute for Policy Studies is serving as the clandestine headquarters for the Occupy movement.

On Dorothea Lange, Michael Harrington, Earth Day and solitary confinement

A postwar German novelist’s complicated legacy.

Senator Sherrod Brown has been a leader in taking on the big banks, and now the Chamber of Commerce is retaliating.

The musician’s posthumous memoir, The Last Holiday, is as rich and ambiguous as his declaration that “The Revolution Will Not be Televised.”

The vilifying charges levelled at Russia's president by the American media could undermine rational U.S. policy-making.

Legislators who are leaving the corporate front group ALEC deserve applause.

Anthony Shadid was an exceedingly rare reporter in the thinning ranks of American journalism.
 

Her firm, SKD Knickerbocker, sells its perceived access to the White House, while lobbying for corporate tax breaks and for-profit colleges.