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As the final House vote on health care confirmed, Congress is starkly polarized over President Obama’s agenda. A poll shows similar divisions among the rest of us.
Stephen Ansolabehere is Professor of Government at Harvard University and coauthor of Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming.
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Among them are Kimberlé Crenshaw, Angela Davis, bell hooks, and Robin D. G. Kelley. You can read them here.
Two new books critique poverty capital, but they don’t ask what borrowers need.
This is my version of the story, but I will illuminate only a corner of it, one that ran parallel to and underneath it, revealing what was left in its wake.
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