Economics

Guns Beat Green: The Market Has Spoken Guns Beat Green: The Market Has Spoken

If you're looking for a sure bet in the new growth market, sell solar and buy surveillance. Forget wind, buy weapons.

Nov 29, 2007 / Column / Naomi Klein

The Dialectics of Revolution… Uh, Recycling The Dialectics of Revolution… Uh, Recycling

Looking askance at a practice widely supposed to be a pretty good idea.

Nov 29, 2007 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Pakistan’s Bomb: Have It Your Way Pakistan’s Bomb: Have It Your Way

Thanks to globalization, the 'Islamic bomb' turns out to be a little bit American, Canadian, Swiss, German, Dutch, British, Japanese and even Russian.

Nov 28, 2007 / Feature / Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins

Global Warming: The Rich Opt Out Global Warming: The Rich Opt Out

Conservation, like taxes, is for little people. When you're rich you can waste all the water you want.

Nov 28, 2007 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman

Deal Breakers Deal Breakers

Two new books seek to galvanize progressives at a key political moment: Paul Krugman's The Conscience of a Liberal and Jonathan Chait's The Big Con.

Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein

Luxury Grub Luxury Grub

What's so great about designer chocolate if it's infested with cockroach droppings? As the economic widens, rich and poor still occupy the same food chain.

Nov 19, 2007 / Barbara Ehrenreich

Confronting the Global Timber Barons Confronting the Global Timber Barons

From a church in a rugged rural parish in Honduras, Father Andres Tamayo leads a grassroots movement to protect dwindling timberlands. Bills introduced in the US Congress might hel...

Nov 17, 2007 / Feature / James North

VideoNation: The Cost of War VideoNation: The Cost of War

Democratic candidates need to make the war a campaign issue, and hammer away at the staggering economic and human costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Nov 15, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Triumph of the Wills Triumph of the Wills

A new apologia for Anglo-Saxon noblesse oblige needs a reality check.

Nov 15, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Brook

Crisis as Opportunity Crisis as Opportunity

The softening economy, foreclosures, bank write-offs, the swooning dollar and stock market are intruding on the politics of 2008. Do the candidates have a clue?

Nov 15, 2007 / The Editors

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