On Monday, February 7th, The Straddler traveled to Washington, D.C. to speak with Dean Baker at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, where he is co-director.
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On the afternoon of Sunday, April 3rd, The Straddler and several of its contributors gathered at IRT Theater in Manhattan to put on a show.
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Coal Comforts A recent communiqué from one of our contributing editors contained an informal essay reporting on the events of his past year.
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n September 24, 2011, The Straddler met with Kim Ghattas in Manhattan, where she was reporting on the UN General Assembly.
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In his introduction to the 1994 reissue of media scholar Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media, Lewis Lapham prepared two parallel lists delineating cultural textures resulting from different forms of dominant media.
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On Monday, March 26th, The Straddler met with Lewis Lapham at his offices on Irving Place in Manhattan.
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On April 17, 2012, The Straddler met Christopher Mackin in the lobby of the New Yorker Hotel to discuss his views on present-day American capitalism and the potential for economic alternatives.
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OLIVIA CIACCI Porphyra? Porphyra? visits me in a dream says, ‘Don’t let them—’ and when the tangles in which I’ve awoken break from my face (itself masking an interior broken) well what is there to do but get up?
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“Since the 1980s, the American business cycle has been based on financial and credit bubbles, and therefore on the enrichment, through the capital markets, of a very small number of people in a very few places.
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