Financial Crisis

Elizabeth Warren Wells Fargo Documents

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

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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

The Get Down

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 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

Michel Temer and his cabinet

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

Peruvian Anti-IMF Protests

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

Student Debt Customers

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

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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

Trump speaks at Detroit Economic Club

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

Tom Tomorrow cartoon

Finally, Millennials Are Proving Themselves Useful Finally, Millennials Are Proving Themselves Useful

And totally not in a creepy way.

Aug 9, 2016 / Tom Tomorrow

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