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Why The Future Will Be More Religious And More Conservative Than You Think | The American

May 8, 2012

“In Seattle,” adds Phillip Longman of the New America Foundation, “there are nearly 45 percent more dogs than children. In Salt Lake City, there are nearly 19 percent more kids than dogs.” Projections show secularism losing momentum and beginning to ...

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"Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States," by Michael Lind | CBSNews.com

April 27, 2012

ML: The Economic Growth program that I help to direct at the New America Foundation, a Washington think tank that I co-founded, will do its best to make sure that the story of the American economy I tell in "Land of Promise" has a happy sequel!

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Cover Story: Drones Close to Home | Rochester City Newspaper

January 17, 2012

The Obama administration has made a dramatic shift away from a foreign policy that once relied on costly nation-building, according to an analysis by Michael Lind for Salon.com. The increased use of drones, Lind writes, is representative of that break ...

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Corporate Values and the Presidential Election | Energybiz

January 15, 2012

... would probably support policies that assume that the short-term interests of investors like Bain are identical to the long-term interests of the economy,” says Michael Lind, policy director at the New America Foundation in a column penned for CNN. ...

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Capitalism In Crisis: Caught Between Apathy And Anger | Financial Times

January 13, 2012

“The largest squeezed group today are people with high-school diplomas working in the service sector,” says Michael Lind, author of a forthcoming economic history of America. “Most of them are living in the suburbs and watching TV. ...

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Obama Orders End To “Long War” Doctrine | The Nation

January 13, 2012

It was Michael Lind, author of a defense of the United States war in Vietnam titled The Necessary War, who was the first to notice the implications of Obama's strategy. “So much for the Long War,” wrote Lind astutely at Salon.com. ...

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Christopher Hitchens, Book Critic | The New York Times

December 16, 2011

His first, in 1995, considered Michael Lind's book “The Next American Nation,” and it featured the sharp opinions and elegant phrases that would appear regularly in our pages in the ensuing years: “Mr. Lind is one of the few contemporary writers to ...

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Elizabeth Warren Isn't Interested in Small Improvements | The Atlantic

November 28, 2011

Michael Lind wrote along the same lines in 2009, and articulated some general objections to all-in-one reform efforts. "Comprehensive reform tries to address too many problems at the same time, instead of addressing particular problems by particular ...

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Iraq Syndrome | Truthout

October 27, 2011

“If any good comes of the Iraq war,” Michael Lind wrote recently in Salon, “it will come in the form of an Iraq syndrome, like the Vietnam syndrome that made Americans wary of large-scale military intervention abroad from the fall of Saigon in 1975 ...

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It's Time To Bring Back the Middle Class | Fox Business

September 14, 2011

According to the New America Foundation, middle class jobs 30 years ago made up more than half of the income in the US, and now it's closer to 40%. The news is the worst for men. Forget 1996 - their earnings level is now more like it was in 1978! ...

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