Inequality

What a Spare $1 Million Can Buy What a Spare $1 Million Can Buy

BP's CEO "got his life back" by going yachting, and the rest of the world's millionaires are doing OK, too. But one Gulf fisherman would rather have something e...

Jun 22, 2010 / Laura Flanders

For Poor, America’s a Sinking Ship For Poor, America’s a Sinking Ship

For all the talk of Wall Street reform, and new consumer protections, and talk of alternative energy policy, the fact remains that for most people, America is a sinking ship.

Jun 2, 2010 / Laura Flanders

Responsibility for Greek Protest Deaths Responsibility for Greek Protest Deaths

Demonstrations in Greece may have caused three deaths, but who caused the financial crisis that led to the demonstrations? 

May 5, 2010 / Laura Flanders

More Than Reform For Subprime Hurt More Than Reform For Subprime Hurt

How the sub-prime rip off results in transferring wealth out of minority America more than ever before, and how the bill proposed by Congress will not fix this.

Apr 28, 2010 / Laura Flanders

Human Interest In Bank Practices Human Interest In Bank Practices

How much senior executives earn, in cash and stock, is public information. How they make it is public too. Trouble is, the two are barely brought together in reporting.

Feb 17, 2010 / Laura Flanders

Howard Zinn speaks into a microphone during the 2009 Sundance Music Festival

Howard Zinn: The Historian Who Made History Howard Zinn: The Historian Who Made History

Howard Zinn, who died in 2010 at the age of 87, did nothing less than rewrite the narrative of the United States. 

Jan 28, 2010 / Dave Zirin

Wade Rathke Speaks Out Wade Rathke Speaks Out

Just a few weeks ago, a book talk by ACORN founder Wade Rathke wouldn't have drawn much press attention, but the organization's recent notoriety as a conservative boogeyman has thr...

Sep 30, 2009 / Chris Hayes

Stokely Carmichael

SNCC: The Battle-Scarred Youngsters SNCC: The Battle-Scarred Youngsters

A report from the front lines of the civil rights battle in Greenwood, Mississippi—a very dangerous place to be.

Apr 23, 2009 / Feature / Howard Zinn

An Epoch Named! An Epoch Named!

Your submissions to the Name Our Epoch contest were awesome: The Age of Avarice, The Crassical Period, The Bling Bang, The New Steal. And the winner is....

Jan 16, 2009 / Feature / Chuck Collins and Sam Pizzigati

The Importance of Perspective The Importance of Perspective

This essay, a finalist in The Nation's Student Writing Contest, argues that the most important prerequisite for being a good president cannot be found in the marble hallways of the...

Dec 17, 2008 / Feature / Natalia Thompson

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