Writer Thomas Frank says working class people in the heartland vote against their economic self-interest when they vote Republican, even if the GOP better reflects their values. That’s why the Democrats should get religion, says columnist Nicholas Kristof.
The Business of Politics
Alan Murray, Washington Bureau Chief for CNBC and co-host of The Capitol Report, breaks down the latest news from Washington
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» The Capitol Report
A Fine Bowl of Borscht
Iryna Kurowyckyj President of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America says New York Ukrainians are united behind Yushchenko
» Ukranian National Women's League of America
» Ukranian National Women's League of America
Matters of the Heartland
Nicholas Kristof, Columnist for the New York Times, on appealing to voters in middle America
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Thomas Frank, Author, What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America, (Metropolitan Books, 2001)
» Nicholas Kristof's blog
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Thomas Frank, Author, What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America, (Metropolitan Books, 2001)
Village Opera
Peter Kiesewalter arranger and musician for the East Village Opera Company
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Tyley Ross lead singer for the East Village Opera Company
» East Village Opera Company
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Tyley Ross lead singer for the East Village Opera Company
» East Village Opera Company
Can Independents Make It?
For the first time since Barnes and Noble's superstores took Manhattan by storm in the mid 1990s, a big new independent bookstore is opening.
The conventional wisdom says independents can only survive if they carve out a niche (gay, women's, arts, etc). McNally Robinson, a family-owned chain with outlets ...