Michael Lind

The fiscal cliff is a lie

Only the rich win in a grand bargain on taxes and entitlements. We can afford Social Security, and should expand it

Michael Lind 58 Topics: Michael Lind, Fiscal cliff, Entitlement reform, "grand bargain", Bowles-Simpson

Conservatives can't stop! A new Heritage study echoes Mitt's "47 percent" theme -- and gets facts and history wrong

Michael Lind 29 Topics: Mitt Romney, Politics, Michael Lind, 47 percent, Tax, Heritage Foundation

How a brutal strain of conservative American aristocrats have come to rule America

Sara Robinson, Alternet 201 Topics: Religion, Religious Right, Michael Lind, Colin Woodard