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There's a lot to like in this talk by Mark Blyth , reposted in Jacobin. I will certainly be quoting him in the future on the euro system...

The Syriza victory as a Rorschach test for U.S. politicians: Mayor De Blasio and President Obama both called Tsipras this morning to congr...

Following up on the previous post, below the fold is an article Arjun and I wrote last year for the Indian publication Economic and Politi...

Noah and Seth say pretty much everything that needs to be said about this latest #Slatepitch provocation from Matt Yglesias.  [1] So, tra...

From Eric Foner's A Short History of Reconstruction : Even more outrageous than Tweed ... was Massachusetts Congressman Benjamin F. Bu...

Keith Richards wrote a book . A month ago, at least, you could find it on the front shelf of the Barnes & Noble, next to the Glenn Beck....

Alan Keyes says , "If citizenship is not a birthright then it must be a grant of the government. And if it is a grant of the governme...