A Wall Street State of Mind A Wall Street State of Mind
How a city that once celebrated seamstresses and stevedores came to admire "big swinging dicks."
Apr 16, 2013 / Feature / Steve Fraser
Capitalism: A Disaster for All Seasons Capitalism: A Disaster for All Seasons
For every San Francisco earthquake and Superstorm Sandy, some die—and others profit.
Apr 4, 2013 / Steve Fraser
The Politics of Debt in America The Politics of Debt in America
How debt built America—and may yet come to tear it apart.
Jan 29, 2013 / Steve Fraser
The Hollowing Out of America The Hollowing Out of America
“Debtpocalypse” is merely the latest installment in a tragic, forty-year story of the dispossession of American workers.
Dec 3, 2012 / Steve Fraser
All in the Family: On Thomas Frank All in the Family: On Thomas Frank
Thomas Frank’s Pity the Billionaire is confused about the connection between the Tea Party and conservative cultural populism.
May 2, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Steve Fraser
Locking Down an American Workforce Locking Down an American Workforce
Prison labor as the past—and future—of American “free-market” capitalism.
Apr 19, 2012 / Steve Fraser and Joshua Freeman
Take Our Children, Please!: A Modest Proposal for Occupy Wall Street Take Our Children, Please!: A Modest Proposal for Occupy Wall Street
It was Karl Marx who first observed that high finance is “the Vatican of capitalism.” How right he turned out to be.
Nov 29, 2011 / Steve Fraser
Occupy Wall Street and the All-American Tradition of Resistance Occupy Wall Street and the All-American Tradition of Resistance
After an absence of well over half a century, Wall Street is back, center stage, as the preferred American icon of revulsion, a status it held for a fair share of our history.
Oct 13, 2011 / Steve Fraser
Uncle Sam Does(n’t) Want You Uncle Sam Does(n’t) Want You
From the first jobless Americans through the Great Depression to the Great Recession of the present moment, the reserve army of labor marches through time.
Sep 12, 2011 / Steve Fraser and Joshua Freeman
The New Deal in Reverse The New Deal in Reverse
How could Barack Obama have ended up, one year later, where Franklin Delano Roosevelt began?
Feb 12, 2010 / Feature / Steve Fraser