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The Hard Times Reviewer is Matthew Vernon Whalan’s newsletter of journalism, oral history, political commentary, and book reviews on hard times and what we can do about them, focusing on mass incarceration, homelessness, poverty, and other subjects.

Matthew Vernon Whalan is an author, journalist, and oral historian. His work has appeared in The Alabama Political Reporter, The New York Journal of Books, Scheer Post, Eunoia Review, Jacobin, Counterpunch, occupywallst.nyc, and elsewhere. He is the author of Doing Time: American Mass Imprisonment Pandemic. He regularly appears on Give Them an Argument With Ben Burgis.

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