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A union manufacturing job used to guarantee entry to the middle class. Now as Caterpillar and other profitable companies pay new employees less than the current ones for the same work that piece of the social contract is being rewritten. Also, Garry Wills on his new book What Jesus Meant and why religion and politics don’t mix. Plus: "Monday Morning Politics."
Straight Into the Hormuz Nest?
Romesh Ratnesar, world editor for Time
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Chris Dickey, Paris bureau chief and middle east regional editor at Newsweek
- on Iran, Iraq, Dubai, and domestic politics
» Romesh Ratnesar (Time)
» Chris Dickey's website
That Class-y Blue Collar
Louis Uchitelle, economic columnist for the New York Times and author, The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences (forthcoming from Knopf)
- says the line is blurring between middle and working class
» The Disposable American (Knopf)
Jesus Speaks
Garry Wills, historian, scholar and author, What Jesus Meant (Viking, 2006)
- says neither left nor right can lay claim to doing as Jesus would do
» What Jesus Meant (Viking)
» Garry Will's articles in The New York Review of Books
Norton Utilities
Brad Knickerbocker, staff writer at the Christian Science Monitor,
-on Gale Norton's departure from the Department of the Interior
» "Why Interior is such a difficult agency to lead" by Brad Knickerbocker in the CS Monitor 3/13/06
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