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Click here for the full Video Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, and the American people: When I spoke here last winter, this nation was facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. We were losing an average of 700,000 jobs per month. Credit was frozen. And our financial system was on [...]

There are many wonderful things about Sonia Sotomayor’s appointment to the US Supreme Court, but one of special interest to me, as a scholar of Bronx history, is the way it highlights an era when public housing was a place of hope and possibility for working class families in the borough. Today, public housing is [...]

Take everything you know about traditional media and throw it out a ten story window. Laugh gleefully at its destruction and enjoy a baser instinct than your probably used to for the briefest of moments, go ahead. You will get far more joy that way than holding onto obsolete learning in an era of monumental [...]

The National Review Online, perhaps the premier online journal for the conservative viewpoint, has a post today on “The Jim Cramer Treatment” that I was going to respond to until I saw this advertisement plastered on the page of their blog: The ad is as tasteless as it is offensive. I was at Fordham University [...]

For months I avoided it. I knew it was coming, after all I am a complete addict for social media, but also knew that I might not emerge before my eyes went blind from screen-itis. I joined the now ever-present Twitter a few months ago as an experiment. I had no idea what it was, [...]

While all blogging is an exercise in mild narcicism you will all be pleasantly surprised to find I expect you to be exhuberant about my return to writing for the Thinking Press. It has been about five months since I lost a bit of interest in maintaining this publication, and there were a few reasons [...]

Drip. Drip. Drip. This morning, an otherwise beautiful wintry Friday morning, brings with it something far more chilling than any cold front. With the failure of the big 3 automotive bailout in the United States we look forward to an economic outlook more imperiled than any we have seen in generations. It is not simply [...]

Join Whoopi Goldberg (ABC’s “The View”), Under Secretary James K. Glassman (U.S. Department of State), Dustin Moskovitz (Facebook), Oscar Morales (One Million Voices Against the FARC) and other prominent attendees, as they engage pioneering leaders of youth movements from around the world at the Alliance of Youth Movements Summit streamed live from New York City, [...]

For the last three months, as the American economy has gone into a free fall, economists and political leaders have parceled out the bad news in small, allegedly manageable proportions. Yesterday, the National Bureau of Economic Research finally confirmed what virtually every small business owner has known for some time- that the US economy is [...]

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