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White Republican Debate Continues To Rage | New York Magazine

February 11, 2013

Calhoun represented the fears of the slave-owning agrarian South being outnumbered by the growing North. But the same style applies to other elites maneuvering to retain their power in the face of diminishing numbers. Michael Lind, in a Salon essay on ...

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Fiscal Cliff a Minefield For U.S. Political Parties | Regina Leader-Post

November 29, 2012

"Economist Michael Lind, a policy director with the liberal New American Foundation, said social security "has not contributed at all to the present crisis. It's two wars, a recession and tax cuts of which a disproportion benefited ...

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Off The Rails: How The Party Of Lincoln Became The Party Of Plutocrats | City Watch

November 27, 2012

Not only did he spring from the ranks of the plebeian, not the preps, but—as Michael Lind points out in What Lincoln Believed —he aimed to both increase opportunity and expand national power. A corporate attorney, he backed railroad interests and ...

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Off The Rails: How The Party Of Lincoln Became The Party Of Plutocrats | The Daily Beast

November 22, 2012

Not only did he spring from the ranks of the plebeian, not the preps, but—as Michael Lind points out in What Lincoln Believed—he aimed to both increase opportunity and expand national power. A corporate attorney, he backed railroad interests and ...

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Informer: U.S. Post Offices Used To Offer Banking Services | American Press

November 21, 2012

Michael Lind of the New America Foundation, a Washington, D.C., think tank, suggested in October 2008 — in the early days of the financial crisis — that the federal government revive the Postal Savings System. “A new system would help today's ...

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Economists Look For Ways To Avoid The "Fiscal Cliff" | C-Span

November 13, 2012

The New America Foundation's Economic Growth Program and Economists for Peace & Security co-host a panel discussion on ways to avoid going over the "fiscal cliff," featuring financial experts and political thinkers ... Michael Lind of New America Foundation moderates the discussion. ...

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“Fiscal Cliff” Concerns Intensify | The Epoch Times

November 13, 2012

“It involves making real changes to the financial structure of entitlement programs, and reforming our tax code to curb special-interest loopholes and deductions,” Boehner said, speaking on the fiscal cliff. For economist Michael Lind, co-founder of ...

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How The United States Can Maintain Its Global Edge | The Atlantic

November 9, 2012

Michael Lind and Sherle Schwenninger of the New America Foundation have called for a federal Works Progress Administration-style infrastructure bank to help finance more than $2 trillion over five years. With interest rates low, and returns on ...

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To The Presidential Victor Goes the Spoils: A Broken Washington | Le Monde

November 6, 2012

"No matter who comes into the White House, all changes to tax reductions are going to be pushed back until the summer of 2013," says the economist Michael Lind. Meanwhile, after January, certain interest groups will push for an "grand bargain" to ...

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Obama Adviser Admits: 'We Need Death Panels' | Wnd.Com

October 1, 2012

NAF fellow Michael Lind wrote, “Our goal [is] not to repeal the New Deal [of Franklin Roosevelt] but to adapt it to the circumstances of the 21st century.” Discover The Networks notes how the NAF approved of Obamacare because it would “offer a new ...

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