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Column: Stem the contagion
The Eurozone crisis has played out like a slow-moving Greek tragedy. The European political elites who created the Euro in the 1990s were warned of problems inherent in their plans, but they ignored these warnings.
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Column: Reforming the tax code a start to fiscal recovery
Our country needs to have a serious conversation about restoring fiscal discipline. For that to happen, both sides must leave their talking points at the door — Republicans need to place their oath of office above their pledges to never raise taxes, and Democrats need to be willing to consider prop...
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Tough economy forces more students to move in with their parents
Three diplomas and a lengthy resume in hand, Joseph Miskabi began job-hunting in August. Despite political science and history degrees from UCLA in 2007 and a law degree from U. California Hastings College of Law, his dream of practicing as a private attorney turned out to be out of reach.
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Column: An offer you couldn’t refuse
Herman Cain has recently burst onto the national stage of Republican presidential candidates, and for good reason. Cain brings a fresh take on the “politics as usual” that has wrapped up Washington, D.C. for the past few years.
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Column: In defense of Occupy Wall Street
My uncle recently asked what it is exactly that members of Occupy Wall Street want–he objected to what he saw as “privileged suburban, bourgeois” twenty-somethings “dabbling in radical politics.” The protestors benefit from capitalism, he argued, so what exactly are they objecting to?
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Column: Images of American pluralism at Occupy Wall Street
“You just got here, didn’t you?” Sarah asked. Shocked, I admitted that I did, to which she replied “Of course you just did. You look too wholesome.” I had barely arrived at Zuccotti Park, the site of Occupy Wall Street, and I was already “found out.
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Column: Occupying Wall Street
I met Anthony, an actor from Brooklyn, and his friend Ophelia, an Amherst College student, in Washington Square Park at 2:30. They had heard the rally was to begin at noon; the website I had read said 3. No matter, we hopped in a cab back downtown to Zuccotti Park.
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Column: Public must not fault Wall Street for poor economy
Many American reforms have made their mark on history through protests — women's suffrage, the civil rights movement and the ongoing gay rights movement, to name a few.
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Professors say XL Pipeline may stall U.S. job creation
The creation of the Keystone XL Pipeline may kill more United States jobs than it creates, according to a recent publication from Cornell U’s Global Labor Institute.
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