Economy

Has Obama Delivered on Healthcare Reform? Has Obama Delivered on Healthcare Reform?

Eric Alterman asks, should Americans be proud of what Obama has done so far, or has he succeeded only in passing weak reforms?

Jul 13, 2010 / Press Room

Has Obama Delivered on Healthcare Reform? Has Obama Delivered on Healthcare Reform?

Eric Alterman asks, should Americans be proud of what Obama has done so far, or has he succeeded only in passing weak reforms?

Jul 13, 2010 / MSNBC

Is the Financial Regulation Bill ‘Socialist’? Don’t Make the Socialists Laugh

Is the Financial Regulation Bill ‘Socialist’? Don’t Make the Socialists Laugh Is the Financial Regulation Bill ‘Socialist’? Don’t Make the Socialists Laugh

Senate Republicans keep griping that financial regulation is government gone too far. It's not. And it's certainly not "socialism."

Jul 12, 2010 / John Nichols

Vanden Heuvel on Guns, Jobs and Arizona Vanden Heuvel on Guns, Jobs and Arizona

Guest-host Both Sides Now, Katrina vanden Heuvel takes on former Bush/Cheney aide Mary Matalin about gun control and why she would take "porno economics" over the Repub...

Jul 12, 2010 / Press Room

Vanden Heuvel on Guns, Jobs and Arizona Vanden Heuvel on Guns, Jobs and Arizona

Guest-host Both Sides Now, Katrina vanden Heuvel takes on former Bush/Cheney aide Mary Matalin about gun control and why she would take "porno economics" over the Republi...

Jul 12, 2010 / Both Sides Now

Lebron James vs. Dan Gilbert: Who Really Killed Cleveland? Lebron James vs. Dan Gilbert: Who Really Killed Cleveland?

Who's the bad sport—Lebron James or Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert, CEO of the subprime lender Quicken Loans?

Jul 9, 2010 / Dave Zirin

The Year of Which Women Again? The Year of Which Women Again?

So it's “the year of the women" in the media again. But again, it's only some.

Jul 8, 2010 / Laura Flanders

Workers Organize at Firestone, Liberia’s ‘State Within a State’

Workers Organize at Firestone, Liberia’s ‘State Within a State’ Workers Organize at Firestone, Liberia’s ‘State Within a State’

Workers tapping rubber at the Firestone plantation in Liberia are struggling for better wages and working conditions—and pushing their employer to stop polluting the land and...

Jul 8, 2010 / Nicholas Jahr

Who Fights and Why? Who Fights and Why?

Winter Bone—if you haven't seen this extraordinary, woman-directed film about a family in trouble in the Ozarks of Missouri, I recommend it. Grim it is. Irrelevant it is not.

Jul 8, 2010 / Laura Flanders

Katrina vanden Heuvel: Fix the Jobs Crisis, Then the Deficit Katrina vanden Heuvel: Fix the Jobs Crisis, Then the Deficit

While conservative media obsesses over the deficit and Republicans are knocking down job creation plans left and right, Obama will have to convince the American people that the d...

Jul 7, 2010 / The Nation on Grit TV

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