Economy

The Anti-Intellectual Intellectuals of the Conservative Movement

The Anti-Intellectual Intellectuals of the Conservative Movement The Anti-Intellectual Intellectuals of the Conservative Movement

Why is Mark Levin’s American Marxism so popular?

Dec 27, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Michael Kazin

The Best to You Each Morning

The Best to You Each Morning The Best to You Each Morning

Palintology. Scenes from our series “The Greater Quiet” for the week of December 20.

Dec 24, 2021 / Steve Brodner

Investing In Our Destruction

Investing In Our Destruction Investing In Our Destruction

You can bank on it!

Dec 24, 2021 / OppArt / Anonymous and Peter Kuper

That Time the FBI Scrutinized “It’s a Wonderful Life” for Communist Messaging

That Time the FBI Scrutinized “It’s a Wonderful Life” for Communist Messaging That Time the FBI Scrutinized “It’s a Wonderful Life” for Communist Messaging

The film “deliberately maligned the upper class,” according to a report that didn’t like the portrayal of Mr. Potter as a bad guy.

Dec 24, 2021 / John Nichols

What Columbia Student Workers Are Asking For

What Columbia Student Workers Are Asking For What Columbia Student Workers Are Asking For

The university has finally agreed to respond to striking workers’ proposals. Here’s what’s at stake.

Dec 23, 2021 / R.H. Lossin

Start the Steal

Start the Steal Start the Steal

Home-cooking.

Dec 23, 2021 / OppArt / Jack Ohman

Happy Birthday Hyman Roth

Founding Godfathers Founding Godfathers

Mobster Sam Giancana once went as far as to tell his brother that the Mafia and the CIA were “two sides of the same coin."

Dec 23, 2021 / Olúfémi O. Táíwò

Amazon

This Holiday Season, Give the Gift of a Habitable Planet This Holiday Season, Give the Gift of a Habitable Planet

The US economy depends on consumers consuming and the earth depends on us not consuming. Which are we going to choose?

Dec 23, 2021 / Frida Berrigan

Kabul Banner

A Million Afghan Children Could Starve This Winter. Are US Sanctions to Blame? A Million Afghan Children Could Starve This Winter. Are US Sanctions to Blame?

Partly as a result of US policy, Afghanistan’s economy is expected to contract by 30 percent.

Dec 23, 2021 / Brian Osgood

Elizabeth Holmes

The Elizabeth Holmes Trial Is an Indictment of US Health Care The Elizabeth Holmes Trial Is an Indictment of US Health Care

What might have happened if taxpayers—rather than investors—had directly funded Theranos’s blood-prick research?

Dec 22, 2021 / James Ledbetter

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