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This piece first appeared at theguardian.com.

Hillary Clinton is having a harder time beating Donald Trump than she bargained for. According to a recent poll, a staggering 44 percent of millennials say they’ll be voting for either Green party candidate Jill Stein or Libertarian Gary Johnson. The chief reason for Clinton’s dip in these polls is not—as Barack Obama claimed on Sunday—that she’s a woman (though sexism does have a lot to answer for). It’s because Clinton has assumed a third... Читать дальше...

Ralph Nader’s new book, a slender volume called Breaking Through Power: It’s Easier Than We Think, is really two brief books, or perhaps two long essays. The first is a lament about the ways that private interests monopolize American society and destroy the common good. The second speaks to his title—exploring the ways in which we can overcome such interests.