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The Truthdig Book Review Edited by Steve Wasserman
"Fred Branfman on 'The Big Short'" -- Author Michael Lewis in his best-selling book takes us inside capitalism's "doomsday machine," and it's your worst nightmare come true.
Danny Schechter on the Economic Collapse
"The Crime of Our Time" -- Danny Schechter's new movie, "Plunder: The Crime of Our Time," tells the story of the economic collapse as "a crime narrative as opposed to a mistakes narrative." Click here to subscribe to the podcast.
Stuart Whatley on the BP Disaster
"The Capitalist Hagiography Has Little Room for Saints" -- Perhaps the most enervating element of the BP-Deepwater Horizon disaster is its eerie familiarity—the sheer, inexorable predictability of it all.
Joe Conason on the Times Square Bomb Scare
"What We Learned From Times Square" -- Within hours after the car bomb fizzled in Times Square, the nonstop noise resumed on Fox News and talk radio, warning that the Barack Obama administration is failing to protect us.
E.J. Dionne on Making Government Work
"Will We Keep Hating the Government?" -- Ever heard the one about the guy who hated government until a deregulated Wall Street crashed, an oil spill devastated the Gulf of Mexico, a coal mine collapsed, and some good police work stopped a terrorist attack?
Ruth Marcus on Lacrosse and Violence
"Did Privilege Play a Role in Lacrosse Killing?" -- The question has to be asked: Is it something about athletes? Something about entitled college athletes? Something about lacrosse?
Eugene Robinson on the Response to Times Square
"Our First Line of Defense" -- The system worked. Authorities responded to the attempted Times Square bombing about as well as anyone possibly could.
David Sirota on Tea Party Slogans
"The Motto of Mad Men" -- "I Want My Country Back"—this ubiquitous tea party mantra belongs next to Nike's "Just Do It" on Ad Age's list of the most transcendent idioms.
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