I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed this column.
Eric AltermanHalf the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.
Eric AltermanAmericans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.
Eric AltermanAs with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.
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