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• Theory and Crisis
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  Sheldon Richman | Friday, October 10, 2008
  What might be even more distressing than the current buildup of the corporate state in response to the supposed economic crisis is the way some self-styled advocates of the free market are willing to cast aside the economic theory they claimed to embrace. (Aside: I say supposed crisis because the credit freeze that was said […]
• Pundit in Wonderland
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  Sheldon Richman | Friday, September 28, 2007
  In one of those boilerplate articles about the deteriorating American middle class, Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson points out that a new Pew Research Center survey reveals that an increasing number of people think we live in a country divided into “haves” and “have-nots” and that more people now put themselves in the second group. Have and have-not what exactly?
  

   

• The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality
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  George C. Leef | Sunday, April 1, 2007

  By Walter Benn Michaels Reviewed by George C. Leef

• The Money Lawyers: The No-Holds-Barred World of Today’s Richest and Most Powerful Lawyers
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  Martin Morse Wooster |
  By Joseph C. Goulden Reviewed by Martin Morse Wooster
• Putting Security Back on Track
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Tuesday, February 6, 2007
  You might think the threats confronting American aviation are unique and unprecedented, given the Transportation Security Administration's unique and unprecedented regulations. But a wise man observed some 2,800 years ago that there's “no new thing under the sun.” More . . .

  A NEW article by Becky Akers

  
  

• Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt’s America, Mussolini’s Italy, and Hitler’s Germany, 1933–1939
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  FEE | Monday, January 1, 2007
  By Wolfgang Schivelbusch Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
• Minimum-Markup Laws Gouge Gasoline Buyers
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Monday, August 21, 2006
  Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle recently authorized gas stations to sell ethanol below the state's mandated minimum price after a station owner in Monroe defied the law and sold it for a dollar less than the required $3.10 per gallon. Good move, but the minimum-markup law should be repealed. More . . .

  A NEW article by Larissa Price

• The View from Under the Regulator's Heel
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Thursday, March 2, 2006
  New Yorkers, smarting from the high cost of housing and related transactions fees, wonder why the Internet hasn't yet increased transparency and reduced transactions costs in this market. Part of the answer is New York's Apartment Information Vendor (AIV) law, which provides New York State regulators with a competition-busting weapon they can use at the behest of entrenched real-estate special-interest groups. Thousands of apartment-hunting consumers pay the price. More

  A NEW article by LaLa Wang

• Expanding the TSA's Grasp
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Monday, December 19, 2005
  The government suffers no shortage of gall.
  
  Barely a week after air marshals from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) gunned down passenger Rigoberto Alpizar at Miamis International Airport, the agency announced that it will expand the reach of its marshal program. More

  A NEW article by Becky Akers

• The State’s Quest for Total Information Awareness
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  David M. Brown | Thursday, May 1, 2003
  David Brown is a freelance writer and editor. This is the second of two parts. Efforts to transform the United States into a surveillance regime on a totalitarian or quasi-totalitarian model are currently underway. In addition to attempts to beef up and make uniform the state driver’s licenses-thereby blending them into either a de facto […]