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Three Centuries After The Appearance Of Franklin's 'courant,' It No Longer Requires A Dystopic Imagination To Wonder Who Will Have The Dubious Distinction Of Publishing America's Last Genuine Newspaper. Few Believe That Newspapers In Their Current Printed Form Will Survive.

There Are More People At Obama's Table Offering Ideas Than There Were Five Years Ago, But When It Came To Facing Up To The Republicans' Threat To Force A Double-dip Recession If They Didn't Get Their Millionaires' Tax Cut, They Still Amounted To Nothing. And Therein Lies Our Fundamental Problem.

Americans Get Mad As Hell With Reasonable Frequency But Quickly Return To Their Families And Sitcoms.

Few Progressives Would Take Issue With The Argument That, Significant Accomplishments Notwithstanding, The Obama Presidency Has Been A Big Disappointment.

American Journalists Tend To Treat Inequality As A Fact Of Life. But It Needn't Be.