Current Readings Around Town
| Title | Pub Date | Author | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Rehabilitationists : How a small band of determined legal academics set out to persuade the Supreme Court to undo the New Deal—and have almost won. | 08/30/2015 | Brian Beutler | New Republic |
| Looking Backward On The Presidency Of Donald Trump : | 08/20/2015 | Andy Lanset | On the Media |
| The New Holy Grail of Republican Primaries : The penumbras and emanations of Citizens United are changing the Republican campaign game | 07/24/2015 | Rick Perlstein | Washington Spectator |
| The Second Amendment must go: How many Americans must die before we rethink the Second Amendment : We have too many guns. We have too many shootings. And too many people die. A misinterpreted amendment is no excuse | 07/24/2015 | Sean Illing | Salon |
| Why Scott Walker Is An American Dictator In Waiting : Pick fights. Smear and scapegoat opponents. Punish the defeated. Escalate. | 07/24/2015 | Steven Rosenfeld | AlterNet |
| What Happened To The Progressive Netroots Movement? : | 07/20/2015 | Josh Israel | Think Progress |
| Austerity Has Failed : An Open Letter From Thomas Piketty to Angela Merkel : Five leading economists warn the German chancellor, 'History will remember you for your actions this week.' | 07/07/2015 | Thomas Piketty | Nation |
| A Practical Vision of a More Equal Society : | 06/25/2015 | Thomas Piketty | New York Review of Books |
| What is Reform? The Strange Case of Greece and Europe : Why creditors' demands would only prolong Greece's crisis. | 06/12/2015 | James K. Galbraith | American Prospect |
| How Gilded Ages End : Protecting democracy from oligarchic dominance is, once again, a central imperative of American politics. | 06/01/2015 | Paul Starr | American Prospect |






