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THE WEEK IN GREED #19: The Pressure of the Real

  • Steve Almond
  • November 30, 2012
I was in a Starbuck’s in central Connecticut trying to think about the election
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Week in Greed #17: Conservatives Storm the Week in Greed!

  • Steve Almond
  • October 26, 2012
I felt it was important for Rumpus readers to hear what conservatives have to say for themselves. So I spent the past month interviewing a bunch.
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The Week in Greed #16: How to Take a Salesman to the Woodshed

  • Steve Almond
  • October 15, 2012
Voters at home, the ones still open to voting for him, need Obama to take the fight to Romney, to speak with urgency and moral force. He needs to have lines of attack prepared for particular topics, and those attacks need to tell a larger story.
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The Week in Greed #12: Who Let the Dog Whistles Out?

  • Steve Almond
  • August 31, 2012
The goal isn’t just to rile white voters up, but to make them feel that their own racist impulses are merely reasonable responses to a culture stacked against them.
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THE WEEK IN GREED #10: GOP Nominee Faces Agony of Deceit

  • Steve Almond
  • July 18, 2012
Pattern of habitual lying poses challenges for Romney campaign.
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THE WEEK IN GREED #3: What We Remember of the Old Country

  • Steve Almond
  • February 17, 2012
Let’s say you work at the Renaissance Esmeralda in Indian Wells, just down the road from Palm Springs. You do maintenance stuff: irrigation, pool filters, plumbing.
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THE WEEK IN GREED #1: The Quality of Owning

  • Steve Almond
  • January 20, 2012
Because of flaws in my character that I am helpless to correct, I spent some minutes last week watching a clip on the BDM[1] of folks cheering the eventual Republican…
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