Inequality

A Fair Tax on Millionaires A Fair Tax on Millionaires

Why should those worth hundreds of millions pay tax at the same rate as those who are middle class?

May 11, 2011 / Feature / Mark Engler

How Town Hall Protests Against Paul Ryan’s Plan Changed the Medicare Debate How Town Hall Protests Against Paul Ryan’s Plan Changed the Medicare Debate

Budget committee chair can say what he wants, but the noisy protests against his plan -- especially in his home district -- have shaken congressional Republicans,

May 7, 2011 / John Nichols

Katrina vanden Heuvel: We Need to Reframe the Deficit Debate Katrina vanden Heuvel: We Need to Reframe the Deficit Debate

We are in a jobs crisis, not a deficit crisis, and activism groups like US Uncut have taken to the streets to help change this dialogue.

Apr 20, 2011 / Press Room

Katrina vanden Heuvel: We Need to Reframe the Deficit Debate Katrina vanden Heuvel: We Need to Reframe the Deficit Debate

We are in a jobs crisis, not a deficit crisis, and activism groups like US Uncut have taken to the streets to help change this dialogue.

Apr 20, 2011 / GRITtv

Demonizing Taxes, Heightening Inequality Demonizing Taxes, Heightening Inequality

Today is Tax Day in the US, and that's almost universally greeted with groans and complaints. That tax word's been so effectively demonized that it may be there's no coming b...

Apr 18, 2011 / Laura Flanders

Cuts Leave Young People With No Future to Win Cuts Leave Young People With No Future to Win

Paul Mason of the BBC called them “the graduates with no future.” They've been at the center of protest movements around the world, from Tunisia to Wisconsin.

Apr 13, 2011 / Laura Flanders

Stuck in the Middle With Obama: The President Who Still Won’t Take a Side Stuck in the Middle With Obama: The President Who Still Won’t Take a Side

Sort of FDR. Sort of Reagan. The president rejects privatization of Social Security. But he's for austerity and broad cuts. And he admits that what he proposes in his much anticipa...

Apr 13, 2011 / John Nichols

Swans and Zombies: Neoliberalism’s Permanent Contradiction Swans and Zombies: Neoliberalism’s Permanent Contradiction

Modern capital is in crisis, and neoliberalism, which redistributes wealth upward, keeps the zombie shambling forward, hungry and blindly grasping.

Apr 6, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover

America’s Class Problem America’s Class Problem

The delusion of a classless society in which opportunity is equally distributed is the most effective deception perpetrated by our moneyed elite.

Apr 6, 2011 / Robert Scheer

Are We All Black Americans Now?

Are We All Black Americans Now? Are We All Black Americans Now?

More and more Americans are learning what it feels like to be unsafe and unprotected. In other words, they're learning what it's like to be black.

Mar 30, 2011 / Column / Melissa Harris-Perry

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