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Finance

Piggy Bank

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…