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Current Readings Around Town

Title Pub Date Author Source
Fascism, Russia, and Ukraine : 03/20/2014 Timothy Snyder New York Review of Books
The Voluntarism Fantasy : Conservatives dream of returning to a world where private charity fulfilled all public needs. But that world never existed—and we’re better for it. 03/18/2014 Mike Konczal Democracy
Teddy Roosevelt, Not-So-Great Reformer What Washington-focused liberals miss about Progressivism : 03/14/2014 Jackson Lears New Republic
Wendy Davis spends big to hire Obama campaign veterans : 02/13/2014 Wayne Slater Dallas Morning News
Why Volkswagen is helping a union organize its own plant : 02/10/2014 Lydia DePillis Washington Post
Banks Don't Do Much Banking Anymore - and That's a Serious Problem : As hedge funds, private equity firms, and other asset managers that make up the shadow banking system gradually take over the role of lending, their risks - and the borrowed money they use to make them - are largely shielded from view. 02/03/2014 David Dayen Pacific Standard
Obama's State Of The Union Theme: Time To Move Past Reagan's Vision : 01/28/2014 Sahil Kapur Talking Points Memo
The Post Office Should Just Become a Bank : How Obama can save USPS and ding check-cashing joints 01/28/2014 David Dayen New Republic
Stop Beating a Dead Fox : The conservative news channel’s only real power is in riling up liberals, who by this point should know better. 01/26/2014 Frank Rich New York Magazine
Obama’s Rough 2013 Prompts a New Blueprint : 01/25/2014 Scott Wilson Washington Post

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