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Blog Entries by Paul Stoller from 06/2011

Politics And Cultural Critique

| Posted 06.10.2011 | Politics
Read More: Anthony Weiner, Tunisia, Spain, Media, Grassroots Movements, Race, Myths, Ethnic Politics, Income Redistribution, Politics, Switzerland, Cultural Critique, Egypt, Erosion of the Middle Class., Sarah Palin, Racism, Syria, David Vitter, Politics News

From the vantage of Europe, American politics seems like the circus: many exciting activities being played out under the big top, activities that have little bearing upon the social and economic realities most Americans confront every day.

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Anthony Weiner's Fair Weather Friends

| Posted 06.14.2011 | Politics
Read More: Social Boundaries, Politics, Anthony Weiner, President Obama, Loyalty, Austrailia, West Africa, Debbie Wasserman Shultz, Damage Control, Scandal, West African Societies, Transgression, Politics News

Congressman Weiner has fallen from grace with meteoric speed and his potential social restitution will be decidedly gradual. But will his experience of utter humiliation eventually make him a better public servant and a better human being?

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Debt-Limit Chicken and the Spread of Political Fundamentalism

| Posted 06.26.2011 | Politics
Read More: Eric Cantor and the Debt Limit, Eric Cantor Debt Limit, Debt Ceiling Vote, Federal-Debt-Limit-Republicans, Cantor Kyl, Debt Limit, Cantor Debt Limit, Politics News

The flight from talks about enhancing revenues, cutting spending, and raising the debt limit ceiling underscores a much more disturbing pattern: the spread of political fundamentalism in our public life.

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