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Op-Ed Contributor - Too Poor to Make the News
nytimes.com - 6/14/2009
Op-Ed Contributor - Too Poor to Make the News
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THE human side of the recession, in the new media genre that’s been called “recession porn,” is the story of an incremental descent from excess to frugality, from ease to austerity. The super-rich give up their personal jets; the upper middle class cut back on private Pilates classes; the merely ...
Op-Ed Contributor - Iran’s Hidden Revolution
nytimes.com - 6/17/2009
Op-Ed Contributor - Iran’s Hidden Revolution
— nytimes.com — Washington JUST after Iran’s rigged elections last week, with hundreds of thousands of protesters taking to the... streets, it looked as if a new revolution was in the offing. Five days later, the uprising is little more than a symbolic protest, crushed ... (more) Op-Ed Contributor - Iran’s Hidden Revolution

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Op-Ed Contributor - Her Justice Is Blind
nytimes.com - 6/16/2009
Op-Ed Contributor - Her Justice Is Blind
— nytimes.com — Washington LONG past the Civil War, and a generation after the formative civil rights struggle, many of... us remain incapable of having a conversation about ethnicity that does not devolve into charges of racism. One recent example of this is the public ... (more) Op-Ed Contributor - Her Justice Is Blind

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Op-Ed Contributor - With Iran, Think Before You Speak
nytimes.com - 6/18/2009
Op-Ed Contributor - With Iran, Think Before You Speak
— nytimes.com — Washington THE grass-roots protests that have engulfed Iran since its presidential election last week have grabbed America’s... attention and captured headlines — unfortunately, so has the clamor from neoconservatives urging President Obama to denounce ... (more) Op-Ed Contributor - With Iran, Think Before You Speak

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Suburban Guerrilla:  Too Poor to Make the News

Daily Kos:  Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up

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Too Poor to Make the News
Suburban Guerrilla — Go read Barbara Ehrenreich.

Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos — ... That's because they are. Samuel Thernstrom: After years of deadlock over climate policy, Congress appears poised to enact the first federal limits on greenhouse gas emissions this fall. Yet a growing number of climate scientists and scholars believe that such efforts are likely to be too little, too late to stop warming -- and that, consequently, a broader view of our climate policy options is needed. Barbara Ehrenreich: Stories of how the recession affects the middle class too often leave out the ...

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