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In 1961, I was a freshman at Cornell, editing a magazine I started with a fellow New York High School newspaper editor Ken Rubin. It was called Dialogue and we set out to explore the issues that would later rock the 60’s—civil rights, Africa’s emergence on the world stage, Vietnam etc. We wanted to encourage [...]
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The "News Dissector" explores how the financial crisis was built on a foundation of criminal activity uncovering the connection between the collapse of the housing market and the economic catastrophe that followed.
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