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Andy Kroll

Andy Kroll is a reporter in the D.C. bureau of Mother Jones magazine and an associate editor at TomDispatch.com.

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	Views Tuesday, October 02, 2012 The Death of the Golden Dream of Higher Education It was the greatest education system the world had ever seen. They built it into the eucalyptus-dotted Berkeley hills and under the bright lights of Los Angeles, down in the valley in Fresno and in the shadows of the San Bernardino Mountains. Hundreds of college campuses, large and small, two-year and four-year, stretching from California's emerald forests in the north to the heat-scorched Inland Empire in the south. Read more
	Views Monday, June 11, 2012 Getting Rolled in Wisconsin The revelers watched in stunned disbelief, cocktails in hand, dressed for a night to remember. On the big-screen TV a headline screamed in crimson red: "Projected Winner: Scott Walker." It was 8:49 p.m. In parts of Milwaukee, people learned that news networks had declared Wisconsin’s governor the winner while still in line to cast their votes. At the election night party for Walker's opponent, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, supporters talked and cried and ordered more drinks. Read more
	Views Friday, May 18, 2012 When 'Greed Is Good' and 'Inequality Is Even Better' Gordon Gekko, the infamously cutthroat capitalist and lead character in Oliver Stone's Wall Street , captured the heady years of the 1980s with a single, indelible line : Greed is good . Read more
	Views Monday, November 21, 2011 How the 99% Won in the Fight for Worker Rights No headlines announced it. No TV pundits called it. But on the evening of November 8th, Occupy Wall Street, the populist uprising built on economic justice and corruption-free politics that’s spread like a lit match hitting a trail of gasoline, notched its first major political victory, and in the unlikeliest of places: Ohio. Read more
	Views Thursday, October 06, 2011 Flat-Lining the Middle Class: Economic Numbers to Die For Food pantries picked over . Incomes drying up. Shelters bursting with the homeless. Job seekers spilling out the doors of employment centers. College grads moving back in with their parents. The angry and disillusioned filling the streets. Read more
	Views Tuesday, August 23, 2011 The Badger State's Bloody Stalemate Stephanie Haw needed a good cry. Read more
	Views Tuesday, July 05, 2011 How Racism, Global Economics, and the New Jim Crow Fuel Black America's Crippling Jobs Crisis Like the country it governs, Washington is a city of extremes. In a car, you can zip in bare moments from northwest District of Columbia, its streets lined with million-dollar homes and palatial embassies, its inhabitants sporting one of the nation's lowest jobless rates, to Anacostia, a mostly forgotten neighborhood in southeastern D.C. Read more

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