America’s seafood nightmare: Why the USA needs to rethink its fish
Paul Greenberg, bestselling author of "Four Fish," takes on the bizarrely illogical global seafood chain
 Why are we importing our own fish? That’s the question posed by Paul Greenberg, author of the bestselling “Four Fish,” in a recent New York Times Op-Ed. The query also served to unde
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The god that sucked: How the Tea Party right just makes the 1 percent richer
Business won on welfare, taxes, regulation, then sat silent as the crazies took over the GOP. Now we're all screwed
This Independence Day weekend let’s uncork some vintage Jeremiad. I wrote “The God That Sucked” for Baffler magazine in 2001; the title (for those who don’t remember the Cold War) refers to The God That Failed, an anticommunist tract that had been ubiquitous in the Fifties. My target, however, was a different god, and my setting was the tail end of the “New Economy” boom of the 1990s, during which the worship of “free markets” had become a kind of mania, a millennial revival, even. It was an age of extraordinary consensus on matters economic;
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