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Finance

Class Struggle

From almost 2,000 comments about student loans sent to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and released on its website last June. Americans currently owe more than $1 trillion in outstanding…

Piggy Bank

by William Styron,

From a June 8, 1972, letter by William Styron to Frederick Exley, the author of A Fan’s Notes, who was a guest lecturer at the University of Iowa that year.…

The Price of Admission

by Thomas Frank,

Unreconstructed

by Daniel Brook,

The federal government builds a shrine to its archenemy

Stop Payment!

by Christopher Ketcham,

A homeowners' revolt against the banks

Leveling the Field

by Christopher Beha,

What I learned from for-profit education

Pennies from Heaven

by Chris Lehmann,

How Mormon economics shape the G.O.P

A Letter to Barack Obama

by George McGovern,

George McGovern in New Hampshire, 1972. © Constantine Manos/Magnum Photos When President Franklin Roosevelt came into office in the depth of the Great Depression, he sought to stabilize and…

Why Dogs Go After Mail Carriers

by Garret Keizer,

Tea Party in the Sonora

by Ken Silverstein,

For the future of G.O.P. governance, look to Arizona

Mad men