Can Debt Spark a Revolution? Can Debt Spark a Revolution?
If Occupy evolves into a debt resistance movement, the results could be explosive.
Sep 5, 2012 / Feature / David Graeber
Students, Beware: Private Student-Loan Companies Are Not Your Friends Students, Beware: Private Student-Loan Companies Are Not Your Friends
A devastating report reveals the predatory practices behind the $150 billion private student-lending industry.
Sep 4, 2012 / Kay Steiger
Middle-Class Secretaries Are Being Pushed Into Minimum Wage Work Middle-Class Secretaries Are Being Pushed Into Minimum Wage Work
Pink-collar jobs have been decimated right alongside declining blue-collar work.
Sep 4, 2012 / Bryce Covert
Labor Day Message: We Can’t Labor Without Our Lives Labor Day Message: We Can’t Labor Without Our Lives
More work, less pay, longer hours, slimmer chances to advance; the message is coming up: the place of struggle is the workplace, but it’s also everywhere else.
Sep 3, 2012 / Laura Flanders
Paul Ryan’s Labor Day Promise to American Workers: Candy and a Sports Schedule Paul Ryan’s Labor Day Promise to American Workers: Candy and a Sports Schedule
On Labor Day, 2001, the congressman was asked what he would do to help the unemployed. He replied, “C’mon, we’re all here to have a good time.”
Sep 1, 2012 / John Nichols
Talk About Poverty (#TalkPoverty): Jessica Bartholow’s Questions for Obama and Romney Talk About Poverty (#TalkPoverty): Jessica Bartholow’s Questions for Obama and Romney
Jessica Bartholow grew up in a working poor family dealing with hunger, housing insecurity and no affordable healthcare. Now she's trying to make sure other people don't suffer thr...
Aug 31, 2012 / Greg Kaufmann
Romney and Ryan Ignore the Gipper Romney and Ryan Ignore the Gipper
Resorting to “root canal economics,” the Republicans are falling into a trap.
Aug 30, 2012 / William Greider
The Lies Republicans Tell About Obama and Welfare The Lies Republicans Tell About Obama and Welfare
Let’s at least set the record straight.
Aug 30, 2012 / Betsy Reed
They Love the Lies Paul Ryan Tells They Love the Lies Paul Ryan Tells
Paul Ryan made his choice long ago. He’s not going to level with the American people. He’s going to try to make them believe things that are not true.
Aug 30, 2012 / John Nichols
Pariahs’ Progress: On Isolationism Pariahs’ Progress: On Isolationism
For Christopher McKnight Nichols, isolationists were cultural cosmopolitans who distrusted the impact of empire.
Aug 29, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Jackson Lears