David Sirota is an awardwinning
investigative journalist and an In These Times senior editor. He served as speech writer for Bernie Sanders’ 2020 campaign. Follow him on Twitter @davidsirota.
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The Michael Jordan of Bailouts
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Laying Bare the Myth of ‘The Left’
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The Predictable and Inevitable Blowback
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The Motto of Mad Men
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The Truth About Arizona’s New Immigration Law
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Clinton’s Contrition
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Journalism’s Parasites
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The Pay-Any-Price Principle
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These Devils Wear Privilege
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The Difference Between Liberalism and Progressivism
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What’s the Matter with Democrats?
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The Tax War Goes Online
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The Senate’s Lesson About Democracy
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It Is Happening Here
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Rogues Gone Wild
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Beyond Budget Brainwashing
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The Case for Choosing Life
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Our Addiction to Disaster Porn
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Democratic Corporatism Brings Reagan Back from the Grave
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Right Is Not Center, But 2010 Resembles 1984
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Why Year One Matters
Don’t listen to apologists who say Obama’s first year in office is not important, and who insist Americans must be patient for change.
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The Decade’s Top Ten Quotations
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Hope Is Not Change
Patience is not a virtue—and good things don’t come to those who wait.
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What Happens When We Can’t Trust the Verifiers?
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The ‘Candidate vs. President’ Canard
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Political Moral Hazard
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Colbert Conservatism
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Intelligentsia Against Intelligence
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Where Are the Real Deficit Hawks?
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We Are What We Trade and How We Trade It
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TARP on Steroids
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A Party With No Punch
Three parables for progressives and the Grand Old (Democratic) Party.
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A Tale of Two Supermen
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Say It Ain’t Snowe
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The Zombie Zeitgeist
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Mad Men 2.0
America is experiencing a PR revolution that promotes outraged denial over fact-based persuasion.
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Who Are ‘The Deciders’?
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Country Club Etiquette Trumps Legislative Results
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Selective Deficit Disorder
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We’ve Seen This Trigger Before
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A Party Is Not a Movement
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The Science Fiction of Military Marketing
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Freedom from Fear
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Don’t You Forget About Him
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Healthcare’s 13 Tyrants
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The Me-First, Screw-Everyone-Else Crowd
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The Attack of the 1-Percenters
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China Is Here
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