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		<title>OBAMA vs. THE WASHINGTON INFLUENCE MACHINE</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
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That&#8217;s the title of my new piece published at TomDispatch.com, a dive into the onslaught by lobbyists and their special interest clients to derail the Obama administration&#8217;s legislative agenda. The piece looks at the vast amount of money being spent on lobbying, the growing numbers of lobbyists working on K Street and Capitol Hill (six [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-intellectualism, ignorance, &#8220;the unacknowledged pit underlying American democracy&#8221;—&#8221;A quibble&#8221; well worth reading</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harper&#8217;s Magazine is far and away one of my favorite magazines today, and the &#8220;Notebook&#8221; essays in Harper&#8217;s rank as one of the many invaluable sections in the magazine.
A few recent gems that have appeared in the &#8220;Notebook&#8221; section: Lewis Lapham&#8217;s superb essay &#8220;Elegy for a rubber stamp&#8221; on the late Tim Russert; Garret Keizer&#8217;s &#8220;Requiem for [...]]]></description>
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