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Michael Taft on the Irish crisis • Yanis Varoufakis on the eurozone crisis • Robert Paul Wolff on Harvard & Peretz • Antonia Juhasz on the filth of oil • Eric Garris on the antiwar movement • Gary Shteyngart on life in a rotting empire • Stephen Mihm on The Crisis • Julia Sweig and Kirby Jones on Cuba • Jesse Eisinger on how banks made billions flipping CDOs to each other • Michael Yates on alienation and bitterness in the heartland • Liz McNichol on the fiscal crisis of the states • Yanis Varoufakis on how Michael Lewis got Greece wrong • Paul Street on Brand Obama • Christian Parenti on how the gov can kickstart the adoption of clean, green technologies • Michael Lind on infrastructure and oligarchy • Astra Taylor on digital serfdom • Rob Weissman on the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill • Corey Robin on Ayn Rand • Alyssa Katz on the state of the housing market • Sean Keenan on how music is faring in the Internet era • Ruy Teixeira on how demographics favor the Dems • Bill Hartung on military spending today • Cynthia Enloe on the McChrystal affair • Richard Seymour on the new British governmenr.....

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(the above, in German)