Elizabeth Warren Destroys Wells Fargo’s CEO: ‘You Should Be Criminally Investigated’ Elizabeth Warren Destroys Wells Fargo’s CEO: ‘You Should Be Criminally Investigated’
The bank has faced civil penalties—but criminal ones are deserved.
Sep 20, 2016 / George Zornick
Another Free-Trade Deal Bites the Dust Another Free-Trade Deal Bites the Dust
Negotiations surrounding the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership have been indefinitely suspended.
Sep 16, 2016 / Michelle Chen
Diamond-Dust Baroque Diamond-Dust Baroque
The Get Down, Baz Luhrman’s fairy-tale remix of the birth of hip hop, offers a glimpse of the beginning of the end of US power.
Sep 15, 2016 / Joshua Clover
We, the People Versus We, the Wealthy We, the People Versus We, the Wealthy
How did the United States become the land of the unequal—and how do we find our way back?
Sep 12, 2016 / Bill Moyers
The Free-Marketeers Take Over in Brazil—and the US Applauds The Free-Marketeers Take Over in Brazil—and the US Applauds
Washington has been preparing for the inevitable “social explosions” by tripling Pentagon spending on special operations in Latin America.
Sep 8, 2016 / Greg Grandin
Will the IMF Become Irrelevant Before It Changes? Will the IMF Become Irrelevant Before It Changes?
The neoliberal reforms it has imposed on countries around the world have been disastrous.
Aug 29, 2016 / Mark Weisbrot
A New Report Sheds Light on Profiteering by So-Called Debt-Relief Companies A New Report Sheds Light on Profiteering by So-Called Debt-Relief Companies
Finally, a clear picture of how student-debt-relief companies take advantage of loan borrowers.
Aug 17, 2016 / StudentNation / Natalia Abrams and Cody Hounanian
The Phony Populism of Donald Trump The Phony Populism of Donald Trump
Defeating Trump means unapologetically embracing the progressive populism needed to move the country forward.
Aug 16, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Donald Trump Spreads Economic Fairy Dust Donald Trump Spreads Economic Fairy Dust
He’s pushing the same old failures of Reaganomics: tax cuts for the rich and deregulation, along with nostalgia for an industrial era long gone.
Aug 10, 2016 / Jeff Madrick
Finally, Millennials Are Proving Themselves Useful Finally, Millennials Are Proving Themselves Useful
And totally not in a creepy way.
Aug 9, 2016 / Tom Tomorrow