Economy

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: Creating a New Deal for Today Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: Creating a New Deal for Today

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. says that progressives must fight to preserve the achievements of the Progressive Era and the New Deal—and renew the old struggle against corporate tyr...

Jun 30, 2011 / The Nation

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: How Corporations Threaten Our Environment and Democracy Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: How Corporations Threaten Our Environment and Democracy

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. explains how corporations have illegally destroyed more than five hundred mountains and impoverished countless rural communities—and gotten away with i...

Jun 30, 2011 / The Nation

Nation Conversations: P. Sainath on the Tarnished Truth Behind ‘India Shining’ Nation Conversations: P. Sainath on the Tarnished Truth Behind ‘India Shining’

Indian journalist P. Sainath explains the disastrous consequences of his country's extreme income inequality.

Jun 29, 2011 / The Nation

The Last Mountain: Fighting Back Against Mountaintop Removal The Last Mountain: Fighting Back Against Mountaintop Removal

The Last Mountain exposes these travesties and the growing mobilization to stand up and fight back. 

Jun 29, 2011 / The Nation Video

Obama: ‘It’s Only Fair’ to Ask Rich to Give Up Tax Breaks

Obama: ‘It’s Only Fair’ to Ask Rich to Give Up Tax Breaks Obama: ‘It’s Only Fair’ to Ask Rich to Give Up Tax Breaks

Democrats should demand fair taxation, but they cannot support cuts in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security in exchange for new revenue.

Jun 29, 2011 / John Nichols

Democracy is Coming to Ohio: 1.3 Million Voters Force Referendum to Restore Labor Rights Democracy is Coming to Ohio: 1.3 Million Voters Force Referendum to Restore Labor Rights

Ohio labor and community groups seeking to overturn anti-labor legislation needed 231,000 signatures to force a referendum. They exceeded the goal —by more than one million. ...

Jun 29, 2011 / John Nichols

Greece in Crisis: Protest, Violence and Necessity

Greece in Crisis: Protest, Violence and Necessity Greece in Crisis: Protest, Violence and Necessity

With the passage of savage austerity measures, Greece qualifies for a 110 billion euro loan staving off imminent bankruptcy. But the long-term prognosis is far from positive. ...

Jun 29, 2011 / Maria Margaronis

Greece in Debt, Eurozone in Crisis

Greece in Debt, Eurozone in Crisis Greece in Debt, Eurozone in Crisis

The country is facing a convulsion unlike anything since the fall of the dictatorship in 1974.

Jun 29, 2011 / Feature / Maria Margaronis

New York’s AG Takes on the Banks

New York’s AG Takes on the Banks New York’s AG Takes on the Banks

Law enforcement agencies have not undertaken a thorough investigation of the banking crisis. But Eric Schneiderman is digging into it.

Jun 29, 2011 / Feature / William Greider

Erasing Labor History Erasing Labor History

Maine Governor Paul LePage's secret removal of a mural celebrating the state's labor history is just one in a long line of struggles over publicly-funded depictions of American wor...

Jun 29, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Rachel Heise Bolten

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