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  It occurs to me that, interesting as the last 4+ years of my column might be to people, the ones I have written since election day might b...

  A Liberal Dose “The Deck Is Stacked Against Working People” Troy D. Smith   We are living in a very dramatic time. Now that the ro...

  A Liberal Dose “An Attack on the Very Essence of America” Troy D. Smith   I don’t know about you, but my wife and I had a scary af...

  A Liberal Dose Troy D. Smith “Trump Recession on the Horizon”   I hear a lot of folks complaining about the economic policies of B...

  A Liberal Dose Troy D. Smith “Some American Voters Are Feeling Buyers’ Remorse”   It is only five weeks into the second Trump admi...

  A Liberal Dose Troy D. Smith “Will You Be Living on the Scraps?”   If there’s one thing I hate talking about, it’s economics. Firs...

  “Democrats Need to Construct a Populist Counternarrative- What You Can Do” Troy D. Smith   As a historian, I’ve spent much of the pa...