Economic Policy

Where’s the Beef? Where’s the Beef?

South Koreans won't be buffaloed by US beef or the Bush Administration's erratic policies.

Jun 19, 2008 / Bruce Cumings

Extreme Inequality: A Nation Guide Extreme Inequality: A Nation Guide

More information about our extremely unequal world--and to help advance the struggle for a more equal future (web only).

Jun 11, 2008 / Feature / The Nation

Truckers Take Their Case to the Capitol Truckers Take Their Case to the Capitol

Riding with a caravan that descended on Washington Monday, to call for immediate government action to push down fuel prices.

Apr 29, 2008 / Feature / Barbara Ehrenreich

Truckers Hit the Brakes Truckers Hit the Brakes

Hard hit by rising costs and the threat of losing their rigs, truckers are staging protests, calling for a bailout and lower fuel prices. What if the rest of us joined them?

Apr 7, 2008 / Barbara Ehrenreich

Dems Flunking Trade 101 Dems Flunking Trade 101

As Clinton rewrites the history of her support for NAFTA, Obama needs to prove he understands what's wrong with global trade pacts.

Apr 3, 2008 / John Nichols

Put Inflation on the Political Agenda Put Inflation on the Political Agenda

Gas is up, sneakers are up, onions are up and eggs, too. The only thing that is not up is your income.

Mar 28, 2008 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman

For a Social Bailout For a Social Bailout

Let's reinvent progressive economic policy, starting with our own sovereign wealth fund to deal with urgent social needs.

Mar 27, 2008 / Robin Blackburn

Extreme Inequality Extreme Inequality

A look at the gap between rich and poor via two books: David Cay Johnson's Free Lunch and Michael J. Thompson's The Politics of Inequality.

Mar 20, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Brook

The Only Fitting Tribute The Only Fitting Tribute

For Roosevelt, the New Deal was a way of advancing freedom, which depended on economic as much as political rights.

Mar 20, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Frances Moore Lappé

The Gentlemen’s Bailout The Gentlemen’s Bailout

The power of Wall Street money and ideas must give way to a new public agenda to restore the real economy.

Mar 20, 2008 / The Editors

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