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Insecurity Separates Middle Class from Romney, Ryan

The rich, those born sucking silver spoons like Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, really are different from the middle class. The wealthy grow up and live their lives wrapped in security. That’s what gives them the arrogance to organize a posse to hold down a fellow prep...

Bill Koch Antoinette?

What do Marie Antoinette and one Bill Koch have in common? If you'd asked me that a few days ago, I'd have answered "Not much." That is, until yesterday, when I about Bill Koch's private Western town. There's a new town in Colorado. It has about 50 buildings,...

Invisible Americans Get the Silent Treatment

Written with Michael Winship. Originally posted at Bill Moyers.Com. It’s just astonishing to us how long this campaign has gone on with no discussion of what’s happening to poor people. Official Washington continues to see poverty with tunnel vision – “out of sight,...

The Convention Reinvention

This isn't as far-fetched as it seems: Working from makeshift offices at a hockey arena here, a team of Romney advisers, producers and designers has been staging and scripting a program for the Republican National Convention that they say they hope will accomplish...

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