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DAN RUDY Portland, OR Obviously it has been happening for years, as steadily as a runaway glacier: the polarisation of American politics and the rightward thrust of the current Republican
Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez found: In 2010 — the first full year since the end of the Great Recession — virtually all of the income growth in America took place among the country’s very
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Dan Rudy PORTLAND, OR Driving all over the Portland area today (as work generally takes me),
CONOR MATTHEWS Ireland Credit: JRLibby It reads like a Noir screenplay. The chalked outline of a dollar symbol lines the
Rosa Luxembourg wrote in her journal on March 13, 1906, after being arrested by Polish authorities: I’m sitting here in


