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Media loves massacres, not foreclosure stories
The Tucson massacre yielded the media and politicians weeks of fodder for their nattering mills. Yes, Americans hate violence and love guns, just as we stand for peace and practice non-stop war. It’s not hypocrisy. We are two nations—at least—living under one crowded flag.
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Web Exclusive: Welcome to 2011 - The American Dream lives on while you’re sleeping
Investors and traders celebrated the New Year, thinking the market will boom in 2011. The tens of millions unemployed, foreclosed or already homeless went to sleep early—to escape the pessimism that has descended on the middle and lower middle classes in much of the country.
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Mining Towns and the New Hinterland Crisis
The long-term decline in mine-industry employment occurs in the post-1970s historical context of globalization, in this way differing from the earlier generation of post-war hinterland crisis that devastated agricultural towns. The crisis is engulfing other resource-dependent towns, notably in forestry and fishing, as well as rail towns.
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