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Steve Fraser

Steve Fraser, a TomDispatch regular, is the author of the just-published Class Matters: The Strange Career of an American Delusion. His previous books include The Age of Acquiescence and The Limousine Liberal. He is a co-founder and co-editor of the American Empire Project.

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Bernie, The Donald, and the Sins of Liberalism

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Revisiting the Great Upheaval and the First Gilded Age

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Making Disaster Pay

From the San Francisco Earthquake to Superstorm Sandy, How Capitalism Stacks the Deck on Disaster

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