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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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James Baldwin’s Complicated Relationship with Psychoanalysis

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The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. James Baldwin rose to prominence as a novelist, essayist, and public intellectual at a time when psychoanalysis was all the rage. Many of the writers, agents, and editors he worked with were undergoing the talking cure themselves and also publishing theory and fiction touching on the topic.
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How a Murder Fueled Racial Terror in Florida

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The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. On December 2, 1922, the grisly remains of a white, 24-year-old high school teacher named Ruby Hendry were found in tall grass beside a train track in the town of Perry, Florida. As historian Christopher Calton writes, the manhunt that followed was also a campaign of terror shaped by economic and social forces that affected rural Florida in the years after World War I.
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Reading the Maya with William S. Burroughs

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The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. The writers of the Beat generation adopted ideas and images from cultural traditions ranging from Buddhism to jazz. William S. Burroughs repeatedly turned to another source: the ancient Maya. As independent scholar Paul H. Wild writes, Burroughs drastically reshaped Maya culture for his own purposes, but his stories were grounded in ideas about the civilization that were common in academic circles at the time.
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