Senior Editor at International Business Times and author of The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington, Hostile Takeover: How Big Money & Corruption Conquered Our Government--and How We Take It Back and Back to our Future: How the 1980s Explained the World We Live in Now, Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything; nationally syndicated columnist, blogger; former writer for Salon.com and host of a radio program on KKZN in Denver, Colorado; founding co-chair of the Progressive States Network
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