Economics

Food Stamps Florida

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

Civilian Conservation Corps

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

Harvey standing water

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

Brexit supporters

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

India garment factory

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 Raging Bull

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 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

DEA arrest

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 Majority Leader Mitch McConnell

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

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