41 Million Americans Are Food Insecure. Why Are the Media Ignoring Them? 41 Million Americans Are Food Insecure. Why Are the Media Ignoring Them?
Trump overwhelms the news, helping the robber-baron class more quietly pillage the country.
Oct 25, 2017 / Column / Eric Alterman
The US Needs a New Civilian Conservation Corps The US Needs a New Civilian Conservation Corps
FDR’s CCC worked in the 1930s, and it would work today.
Oct 25, 2017 / Paul J. Baicich
What the US Can Learn From the Fall of the Roman Republic What the US Can Learn From the Fall of the Roman Republic
Ned Resnikoff interviews author Mike Duncan about how the United States can avoid Rome’s fate.
Oct 24, 2017 / Ned Resnikoff
It Doesn’t Matter if Cities Are Climate Change–Proof if No One Can Afford to Live in Them It Doesn’t Matter if Cities Are Climate Change–Proof if No One Can Afford to Live in Them
In the wake of this year’s devastating hurricanes, cities need to focus on equity in all of their future climate-adaptation plans.
Oct 24, 2017 / Michelle Chen
The World, Not Just America, Is Splintering The World, Not Just America, Is Splintering
Trump’s polarization of US politics follows a greater pattern of political crises in Spain, Great Britain, and elsewhere.
Oct 24, 2017 / John Feffer
Could a Global Living Wage Put an End to Corporations’ ‘Race to the Bottom’? Could a Global Living Wage Put an End to Corporations’ ‘Race to the Bottom’?
A true living wage would take into account the needs not just of workers but of society as a whole.
Oct 24, 2017 / Michelle Chen
Wall Street Has Some Advice for the Democratic Party Wall Street Has Some Advice for the Democratic Party
And Democrats need to ignore it.
Oct 23, 2017 / Robert L. Borosage
America Has a Monopoly Problem—and It’s Huge America Has a Monopoly Problem—and It’s Huge
The Nobel Prize winner argues that an economy dominated by large corporations has failed the many and enriched the few.
Oct 23, 2017 / Joseph E. Stiglitz
Abolish the Drug Enforcement Administration Abolish the Drug Enforcement Administration
And use the savings to help the poor.
Oct 20, 2017 / Alex S. Vitale
Senate Republicans Are Trying to Give the 1 Percent a $1.9 Trillion Tax Break Senate Republicans Are Trying to Give the 1 Percent a $1.9 Trillion Tax Break
Senators Bernie Sanders and Tammy Baldwin led the opposition with a pair of amendments that challenged a “horrible bill.”
Oct 20, 2017 / John Nichols