It’s Time to Fix the Estate Tax It’s Time to Fix the Estate Tax
It's been said that only death and taxes are certain. But the "death tax" is anything but certain right now. Costing the Treasury billions, Congress has allowed the estat...
Jul 26, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Making the Economy More Just Making the Economy More Just
Structural financial reform will come not through the sweep of a single piece of legislation, but with new innovative economic models that better reflect the democratic values of t...
Jul 22, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Case For Elizabeth Warren The Case For Elizabeth Warren
As the bankers and corporate lobbyists fight to diminish new financial regulation, Elizabeth Warren—leading activist and thinker in favor of reform—should be the top co...
Jul 20, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Deficits of Mass Destruction Deficits of Mass Destruction
The Iraq War was never really about weapons of mass destruction, and the fight against the deficit is not actually about fiscal responsibility. It's a shell game for gutting the we...
Jul 15, 2010 / Chris Hayes
Two More Candidates for the McChrystal Treatment Two More Candidates for the McChrystal Treatment
At this point, the only way the economy is going to turn around is if Obama's economic hotshots grant professionally damaging interviews to journalists who won't paper over their m...
Jul 7, 2010 / Robert Scheer
Wanted: One GOP Vote for Unemployment Benefits Wanted: One GOP Vote for Unemployment Benefits
Failure to extend unemployment benefits is a problem created by both the GOP and the democratic Congress, Laura Flanders and Tim Carney explain on The Ed Show, guest hosted by Ch...
Jul 1, 2010 / Press Room
Wanted: One GOP Vote for Unemployment Benefits Wanted: One GOP Vote for Unemployment Benefits
Failure to extend unemployment benefits is a problem created by both the GOP and the democratic Congress, Laura Flanders and Tim Carney explain on The Ed Show, guest hosted by Chri...
Jul 1, 2010 / The Ed Show
Battling the Banksters Battling the Banksters
This is not the end of reform; it's the beginning of a promising struggle to cut the financial sector down to tolerable dimensions and reduced power.
Jun 30, 2010 / William Greider
Dangerous Experiment for Deficit Hawks Dangerous Experiment for Deficit Hawks
David Leonhardt, writing in the New York Times, quotes source after source saying, "The world’s rich countries are now conducting a dangerous experiment."
Jun 30, 2010 / Laura Flanders
Inequality in America Inequality in America
And what to do about it. A Nation forum, featuring Robert Reich, Dean Baker, Katherine Newman, David Pedulla, Orlando Patterson, Jeff Madrick and Matt Yglesias.
Jun 30, 2010 / Feature / Various Contributors