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Michael Lind on infrastructure and oligarchy • Astra Taylor on digital serfdom • Rob Weissman on the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill • Corey Robin on Ayn Rand • Alyssa Katz on the state of the housing market • Sean Keenan on how music is faring in the Internet era • Ruy Teixeira on how demographics favor the Dems • Bill Hartung on military spending today • Cynthia Enloe on the McChrystal affair • Richard Seymour on the new British government • Matthew Lasar on Pacifica governance • Max Fraser on Andy Stern & SEIU • Keith Gessen and Hedge Fund Man on the wacky bubble days • Gary Rivlin on the rich business of lending to the working poor • Sarah Ellison on Rupert Murdoch’s takeover of Dow Jones • Norman Finkelstein on Israel and Gaza • Emily Gould on kids, and media, today • Rob Weissman on how Wall Street always gets its way • Enrique Diaz-Alvarez on the eurocrisis • Kert Davies on climate politics • Mark Weisbrot on LatAm economies • Steve Early says bye to Andy Stern • Robert Scott on how many U.S. jobs Chinese currency manipulation kills • Matt Taibbi on how Wall Street keeps ripping us off • Diane Ravitch on the evils of education “reform” • Ann Harrison on the effects on workers of anti-sweatshop campaigns • Steven Hill on Europe’s economic charms.....

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(the above, in German)