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In These Times now has the web version of my latest piece for them. It is a writeup of how trade - and some Democrats' continued "free" trade zealotry - may have some very unpredictable ramificati...

The Progressive Legislative Action Network's Stateside Dispatch today goes into strategies to increase job growth in our states. Too often, economic development turns into corporate welfare - but ...

USA Today reports that "like activist U.S. shareholders monitoring companies, investors worldwide want businesses they own to embrace tougher corporate governance standards, according to a report ...

Just got back from a weekend in Denver with my family, and wanted to pass on this lead editorial in the latest edition of In These Times. The editors at the magazine asked me to write it, and I de...

Why is the Bush administration refusing to tell Congress about its review of a UAE bid to buy defense contractors in America? We just went through this kind of thing with the port security issue -...

In past articles for the Washington Monthly and In These Times, I noted that Democrats throughout the country have a chance to attract votes from the more culturally-conservative hunter/angler/outd...

The basic premise of my upcoming book Hostile Takeover is that there are no longer any lines or distinctions between Big Business and government. In Washington's corrupt, money-dominated politics, ...

Last month, the public was treated to yet another column by the New York Times' Tom Friedman trumpeting the supposed utopia of "free" trade in the developing world. In that column, Friedman held up...

Nathan Newman highlights an inspiring story of solidarity in Kansas, as workers there walked off the job in solidarity with other workers who a Dodge City meatpacking plant tried to discipline for...

There's a great profile on Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer in today's Los Angeles Times. Go check it out.
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