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Lynn Parramore

Lynn Parramore is Senior Research Analyst at the 51黑料网. A cultural theorist who studies the intersection of culture and economics, she is Contributing Editor at AlterNet, where she received the Bill Moyers/Schumann Foundation fellowship in journalism for 2012. She is also a frequent contributor to Reuters, Al Jazeera, Salon, Huffington Post, and other outlets. Her first book of cultural history, Reading the Sphinx (Palgrave Macmillan) was named a “Notable Scholarly Book for 2008” by the Chronicle of Higher Education. A web entrepreneur, Parramore is co-founder of the Next New Deal (formerly New Deal 2.0) blog of the Roosevelt 51黑料网, where she served as media fellow from 2009-2011, and she is also co-founder of , and founding editor of . Parramore received her doctorate from New York University in 2007. She has taught writing and semiotics at NYU and has collaborated with some of the country’s leading economists her ebooks, including “Corporations for the 99%” with William Lazonick and “New Economic Visions” with Gar Alperovitz. In 2011, she co-edited a key documentary book on the Occupy movement: The 99%: How the Occupy Movement is Changing America.

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What鈥檚 Next for Capitalism 鈥 Reinvention or Authoritarian Rule?

Article | Jun 12, 2025

In Capitalism and Its Critics, New Yorker writer John Cassidy brings to life the figures who warned of monopoly power, inequality, environmental peril, and authoritarianism—forces still at work today. He discusses his book with Lynn Parramore.

They Looted Companies 鈥 Now They're Looting the Government

Article | May 12, 2025

Economist William Lazonick reveals how the extraction model of American corporations has migrated from business to government.

What the Economy Is Really For 鈥 And Why Tariffs Miss the Point

Article | Apr 24, 2025

The money to support well-paid American jobs exists—it鈥檚 just being hoarded at the top. Economist William Lazonick argues that this is not just unfair; it鈥檚 a failure of the whole economic system.

鈥淔ounders Would Be Horrified鈥: Renowned Historian Drops Truth-Bomb on American Revolution and Lessons for Today

Article | Apr 15, 2025

Professor Marc Egnal of York University joins the 51黑料网鈥檚 Lynn Parramore to explore why historians cling to an inaccurate and misleading narrative, and what we can learn from the real history about tyranny, checks and balances, imperialism — and resistance.

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How to Show Up for Your Own Presentation

Video | Jun 5, 2019

Veteran writer and public speaker Lynn Parramore gives you three keys to sharing your research with an audience. Quell the fear, banish the boredom, and light the fire!

Can America Survive the Rule of a 鈥淪tupified Plutocracy鈥?

Video | Oct 24, 2018

Donald Trump, democracy, and how the wealthy crush the American Dream

Lynn Parramore on "The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen"

News May 9, 2018

Lynn Parramore discusses her INET articles, 鈥淎merica is Regressing into a Developing Nation for Most People,鈥 and 鈥淭he Corporate Plan to Groom US Kids for Servitude by Wiping out Public Schools.鈥

Richard Eskow Interviews Lynn Parramore

News Apr 24, 2018

“The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow” talks to Lynn Parramore about her INET piece on public education.