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Covers:  economics, central banks, sex work, income, finance, politics, tech, poverty
Doesn't Cover: sports
Journalist/radio host. “Effete ‘sound money’ Marxist." “Risible footsoldier for the ownership class.” “Utter zero.” “Stalinist schoolyard bully!”

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Doug Henwood’s Biography

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Doug Henwood, editor and publisher of Left Business Observer, got his B.A. in English from Yale in 1975. At Yale, Henwood was briefly a conservative and a member of the Party of the Right, which maneuvered his election as Secretary of the Political Union, but he quickly came to his senses (though he is, as they say around the POR, a member for life at least). From 1976-79, Henwood did graduate work in English at the University of Virginia, concentrating on British and American poetry and critic…

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Why Should the Left Support Obama? | The Nation

Why Should the Left Support Obama? | The Nation

| | (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds) As I paged through this magazine's recent presidential endorsement issue, I search…

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Reflections on the current disorder

Reflections on the current disorder

This is the text of the talks I gave at the University of California-Riverside and UC-Irvine, January 25 and …

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From the vault: Class

From the vault: Class

I wrote this for The Baffler back in 1998. A little old, but still full of truth. This is what I submitted; t…

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How much do teacher strikes hurt kids?

How much do teacher strikes hurt kids?

A Washington Post blogger named Dylan Matthews posted an attempted heart-tugging piece yesterday arguing that…

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Schooling in capitalist America 2011

Schooling in capitalist America 2011

Home The following article appeared in Left Business Observer #132, April 2011. Copyright 2011, Left Business…

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The Founders Never Meant The US To Be A Democracy

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By Doug Henwood
| Popular Resistance
Above photo: The structures of governance bequeathed to us by the founding generation provided an ideal environment for a plutocracy to develop and run wild, largely insulated from popular power. For Madison and the other Framers, the danger wasn’t the power of elites but that of the mob. One of the great contradictions of American life is that we think of ourselves as a democracy, a model for the world, but one with a profoundly rich elite that exercises enormous influence over politics.
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The Founders Never Meant the US To Be a Democracy

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By Doug Henwood
| Portside
One of the great contradictions of American life is that we think of ourselves as a democracy, a model for the world, but one with a profoundly rich elite that exercises enormous influence over politics. Although we often feel (correctly) that democracy is eroding in the United States, we shouldn’t forget that, despite our image, our state was never designed to be a democracy.
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The Founders Never Meant the US to Be a Democracy

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By Doug Henwood
| Jacobin Verified
One of the great contradictions of American life is that we think of ourselves as a democracy, a model for the world, but one with a profoundly rich elite that exercises enormous influence over politics. Although we often feel (correctly) that democracy is eroding in the United States, we shouldn’t forget that, despite our image, our state was never designed to be a democracy.
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