Economics

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

Latin America’s Shock Resistance Latin America’s Shock Resistance

Recent events in the region show how societies can recover from extreme capitalism.

Nov 8, 2007 / Feature / Naomi Klein

Environmentalism With a Social Conscience Environmentalism With a Social Conscience

At the eighteenth annual Bioneers Conference, environmentalists and social activists are creating alliances that allow the poor to share the promise of a greening America.

Nov 7, 2007 / Feature / Joliange Wright

Rapture Rescue 911: Disaster Response for the Chosen Rapture Rescue 911: Disaster Response for the Chosen

Gone are the days of equal protection. Intense natural disasters like the California wildfires are being met with a new model: privatized disaster response.

Nov 1, 2007 / Column / Naomi Klein

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