I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed up to hit a pedestrian or, or course, stop to kick a pedestrian who has already been hit. From which it followed, of course, that one would never ever -- on pain of deletion from dozens of Christmas card lists across the country -- vote Republican.

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Barbara Ehrenreich was a 20th-century American writer and journalist. Barbara Ehrenreich was an American author and political activist. During the 1980s and early 1990s, she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Humor — Witty observations and humorous takes on everyday life
  • Politics — Governance, civic duty, and the structures of power

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