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Co-founder, New America Foundation

Michael Lind is a professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, a columnist at Tablet, and cofounder and fellow at New America.

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    The Solar Energy Bubble Bursts
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    The Progressive Case for Modernization
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    The Future of Food
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    Hurricane Sandy and the Case for Adaptation to Climate Change
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    Cut-and-Invest Is a Death Trap
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    The Myth of the ‘Capitalist System’
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    The Great Cosmopolitan Stagnation
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