Six Ways McCain Could Still Win Six Ways McCain Could Still Win
Six ways McCain could still win: 6. Thirty million young, first-time voters oversleep, forget to go to polls on Nov. 4. 5. Sarah Palin reveals secret past as Rhodes Scholar; admi...
Oct 28, 2008 / Jon Wiener
Rich Old White Men: Still the Problem Rich Old White Men: Still the Problem
The latest New York Times-CBS News poll identifies the demographic group with the highest level of support for John McCain: rich old white men. Coincidentally, they are also the p...
Oct 27, 2008 / Jon Wiener
The Suffering of Wall Street Wives The Suffering of Wall Street Wives
"Wall Street wives are finding that they must defer dreams and fancy things," the L.A. Times reported in a page one story on Saturday. One wife, who had been looking fo...
Oct 25, 2008 / Jon Wiener
The $700 Billion Kiss-off? The $700 Billion Kiss-off?
The Roman historian Tacitus famously put the following lines in the mouth of a British chieftain opposed to imperial Rome: "They have plundered the world, stripping naked the...
Oct 23, 2008 / TomDispatch
Burning Cars and Suicides Burning Cars and Suicides
Back in the Great Depression years of the 1930s, unemployed writers, like unemployed steelworkers, were in need of jobs, and so the New Deal's Works Progress Administration, which ...
Oct 20, 2008 / TomDispatch
The Once and Future Secretary of Defense? The Once and Future Secretary of Defense?
Don't trust me as a gambler. You'd probably make more by putting your money into credit-default swaps. Nonetheless, I'd like to make a small wager on the single significant holdo...
Oct 16, 2008 / TomDispatch
Is the Second Superpower of the Cold War Going Down? Is the Second Superpower of the Cold War Going Down?
In a 1998 interview with Le Nouvel Observateur, Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, spoke proudly of how, in July 1979, he had "si...
Oct 9, 2008 / TomDispatch
Who Is the Oracle? Who Is the Oracle?
Tuesday night's Presidential debate in Nashville featured a notable clash or two, but on one topic there was agreement: Warren Buffett. The so-called "Oracle of Omaha" is...
Oct 8, 2008 / Laura Flanders
Bush’s Failing Financial “Surge” Bush’s Failing Financial “Surge”
Here we are, with ringside seats--far too close for comfort--at the Great Global Crash of '08. Nobody's quite calling it that yet, but what else could it be? All over the world y...
Oct 7, 2008 / TomDispatch
Out of Money for the Next War? Out of Money for the Next War?
Think of this as the month when Fannie and Freddie entered everyday speech as something other than friendly names, when Americans realized that WaMu wasn't an over-performing Orca ...
Oct 2, 2008 / TomDispatch