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November/December 2015
Posted inEconomy, Magazine, November/December 2015, Politics

America’s Forgotten Formula for Economic Equality

by Paul Glastris

A signature moment in the first Democratic presidential debate was when CNN moderator Anderson Cooper asked Bernie Sanders how he could hope to win the general election as an avowed “democratic socialist.” The Vermont senator had a ready answer. Being a democratic socialist, he said, is about “saying that it is immoral and wrong” that […]