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Freelance writer with more than a decade of experience writing about the intersections of economics, politics and everyday life. I've written for Salon, LA Weekly, AdBusters, the Boston Business Journal and the Progressive. I've also done multi-day packages for the Nashua [N.H.] Telegraph featuring photos, videos, data maps.

Before going freelance in 2012, I was on staff at the Worcester [Mass.] Business Journal, and, before that, the Gardner [Mass.] News.

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A libertarian move to build a new society

A libertarian move to build a new society

If you really want to talk about what it means to oppose the government, the place to start isn’t with Republ…

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Labor of Love

Labor of Love

For craft brewery workers, passion often comes at a cost, as the industry strives to create competitive jobs.

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Tom Friedman's bizarre fantasy: Here's who he needs to meet

Tom Friedman's bizarre fantasy: Here's who he needs to meet

The Times pundit's vision of the U.S. economy is narrow and frightening. He should meet people like Karl Tied…

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No, manufacturing jobs won't revive the economy

No, manufacturing jobs won't revive the economy

In the American imagination, the phrases "the decline of the middle class" and "the loss of factory jobs" are…

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Nashua Neighborhoods: Kinsley Street area an economic melting pot of the city

Nashua Neighborhoods: Kinsley Street area an economic melting pot of the city

Peter Smith's house on Pershing Street, near St. Joseph Hospital, defines a particular image of the American …

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Profiles of a Regular Man: The Pals

Profiles of a Regular Man: The Pals

I had seen Jeff with his five-year-old buddy around the neighborhood a few times before I ever talked to them…

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When Did Presidents Start Traveling Abroad?

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The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Overseas trips tend to show US presidents at their most “presidential,” shaking hands with other world leaders amid flags and media throngs. Yet, as political scientists Ian Ostrander and Toby J. Rider write, presidential travel abroad is a strikingly new phenomenon. Until the twentieth century, Ostrander and Rider write, presidents observed an unwritten rule against international travel.
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How the Slave Trade Built Charleston

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By Livia Gershon 
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The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Looking back at the era of the American Revolution, we often view the southern colonies and their dependence on enslavement as rural and old-fashioned, in contrast to the urban proto-capitalism of the North. The reality was more complicated, as historian Gregory E. O’Malley explores from the vantage point of Charleston, South Carolina.
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Inventing “Machismo” in the US

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By Livia Gershon 
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The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. To English-speaking Americans in the twenty-first century, the word “machismo” suggests some combination of toughness and male chauvinism, presumably found in its purest form among Latinos.
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