Washington correspondent for The Nation magazine; author of The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders' Cure for Royalism, Uprising: How Wisconsin Renewed the Politics of Protest from Madison to Wall Street; co-author of Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America, The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again and, most recently, People Get Ready: The Fight against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy
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