Explainer: How Did Inequality in America Get So Bad? And What Can the Government Do to Fix It? Explainer: How Did Inequality in America Get So Bad? And What Can the Government Do to Fix It?
It took thirty years for inequality to become this dramatic, and it will be a generational project to reverse it.
Nov 17, 2011 / Mike Konczal
An Explosion in Lobbying Around For-Profit K-12 Programs An Explosion in Lobbying Around For-Profit K-12 Programs
State legislators are prioritizing technological “innovation” over quality education.
Nov 17, 2011 / Dana Goldstein
Austerity Alternatives Austerity Alternatives
Slashing the safety net and cutting government spending aren't the only ways to fix the budget.
Nov 17, 2011 / George Zornick
How the Movies Saved My Life How the Movies Saved My Life
Seeing the world in black and white (with subtitles).
Nov 17, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Tom Engelhardt
Police Raid Clears Occupy Cal Encampment Police Raid Clears Occupy Cal Encampment
An early morning raid rousted the Occupy Cal camp resulting in two arrests.
Nov 17, 2011 / StudentNation / Jordan Bach-Lombardo
Students for a New American Politics Endorses Murphy & Griego for Congress Students for a New American Politics Endorses Murphy & Griego for Congress
The nation’s largest student-run political action committee just announced its first Congressional endorsements of the volatile upcoming election cycle.
Nov 17, 2011 / StudentNation / The Nation
The Villain Occupy Wall Street Has Been Waiting For The Villain Occupy Wall Street Has Been Waiting For
Sometimes, a villain can be more energizing than a leader to a movement.
Nov 17, 2011 / Robert Scheer
Newt’s Surge Newt’s Surge
The pundits all can confidently speak Of Gingrich as the flavor of the week. The people who want anyone but Mitt Now say, in desperation, Newt is it. Yes, Newt’s astute—a crafty wheeler-dealer. His baggage, though, would fill an eighteen-wheeler— Affairs and ethics problems and, to boot, His mouth is something often off he’ll shoot. And if he’s scratched because he lacks decorum? What happens then? Get ready, Rick Santorum.
Nov 17, 2011 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Who Will Be the Un-Bloomberg? What Mayors Should Say About Wall Street Who Will Be the Un-Bloomberg? What Mayors Should Say About Wall Street
If big-city mayors can strategize about the alleged problems of Occupy protesters, why can’t they get together to reform Wall Street?
Nov 16, 2011 / Tom Hayden
Video: Supercommittee, Super Trouble Video: Supercommittee, Super Trouble
The supercommittee’s cuts will sink the economy even further. Here's what it should do instead.
Nov 16, 2011 / Robert B. Reich