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Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich, the author of Nickel and Dimed (Owl), is the winner of the 2004 Puffin/Nation Prize.

Currently

  • Liposuction: The Key to Energy Independence

    June 22, 2008

    Obese America is literally sitting on vast energy reserves--all we need to do is extract it and turn it into fuel.

  • This Land Is Their Land

    June 11, 2008

    In the era of the superrich, if a place is truly beautiful, ordinary people can't afford to be there.

  • Hillary's Gift to Women

    May 12, 2008

    She's managed to smash the myth of innate female moral superiority.

  • Truckers Take Their Case to the Capitol

    April 29, 2008

    Riding with a caravan that descended on Washington Monday, to call for immediate government action to push down fuel prices.

  • Truckers Hit the Brakes

    April 7, 2008

    Hard hit by rising costs and the threat of losing their rigs, truckers are staging protests, calling for a bailout and lower fuel prices. What if the rest of us joined them?

  • Progressives for Obama

    March 24, 2008

    The future has arrived: progressives can make a difference to ensure Barack Obama is our next President.

  • Hillary's Nasty Pastorate

    March 19, 2008

    When it comes to unsavory religious affiliations, Hillary Clinton is a lot more vulnerable than Obama.

  • The Fall of the American Consumer

    March 11, 2008

    We have been the world's designated shoppers, and, if we fall down on the job, we take the global economy with us.

  • Unstoppable Obama

    February 14, 2008

    All of us, of whatever race, want a fresh start. That's what "change" means right now: Get us out of here!

  • Desperately Seeking Stimulus

    January 22, 2008

    An economy addicted to growth, bubbles, downsizing and lending sprees--has become disconnected from the real economy of ordinary human needs.

  • Hillary's Real MLK Problem

    January 15, 2008

    "Change" is this year's Democratic battle cry, but if you don't know how it happens, you're not likely to make it happen yourself.

  • Recession--Who Cares?

    January 9, 2008

    Politicians and economists find it hard to admit that we have two economies--one for the rich and one for everyone else--and the latter has been in a recession, if not a depression, for a long, long time.

2007

  • Bonfire of the Disney Princesses

    December 11, 2007

    Disney's idea of sex doesn't belong in the pre-K playroom. Parents, unite: make a holiday bonfire of all that plastic and tulle: let your girls be girls again.

  • McMansions Meet the Mortgage Crisis

    December 3, 2007

    Homeowners in gated communities now facing foreclosure are learning there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man.

  • Luxury Grub

    November 19, 2007

    What's so great about designer chocolate if it's infested with cockroach droppings? As the economic widens, rich and poor still occupy the same food chain.

  • Writers Strike, Silence Falls

    November 12, 2007

    As the screenwriters strike enters its second week, take a moment to appreciate those without whom late night comics are struck mute, movies are left unmade and on TV, there's nothing but reality.

  • The Gap: New Frontiers in Child Abuse

    November 1, 2007

    The Gap has been caught selling garments made by child slaves in India. It's enough to make you vomit all over your new denim jacket.

  • It's Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week!

    October 22, 2007

    David Horowitz serves up a witch's brew of Cheney-style anti-jihadism, mixed with anti-feminism and a sour dash of anti-Semitism.

  • John Templeton's Universe

    October 10, 2007

    The right-wing philanthropist is pushing the phony science of positive psychology to numb Americans into smiley-faced acquiescence to the status quo.

  • Clinton and Obama: Running on Ambien

    October 1, 2007

    Can America survive the tedium of its black and female candidates?

  • Healthcare Surrender Monkeys

    September 21, 2007

    America has faced down the Third Reich and the Red Menace, but it has met an enemy it dares not confront: the private health insurance industry.

  • Fear of Restrooms

    September 17, 2007

    Now that we know there's a vice squad deployed to find people looking to hook up for quickies in airport bathrooms, air travel has taken on a whole new dimension.

  • Welcome to Fleece U

    September 6, 2007

    Our mission is to take feckless teenagers like you and turn them into full-fledged debtors.

  • Travails of the Super-Rich

    August 31, 2007

    Just in time for Labor Day, a new report on the gap between the boss and the average worker is a gleefully malicious attack on the richest CEOs.

  • Smashing Capitalism

    August 20, 2007

    The victims of the housing market's collapse are crippling an unjust economic system.

  • The War on Infrastructure

    August 6, 2007

    Describing the recent bridge failure and steam-pipe explosion as "cowardly attacks on our way of life," Bush today opened a new front in his permanent war on everything.

  • Opportunities in Abstinence Training

    August 1, 2007

    Chastity advocates: Lay off the adolescents and concentrate on the vast numbers of middle-aged and elderly who aren't getting any. Make them feel good about their lifestyle choice!

  • It's Easier to Insure Pets Than Kids

    July 26, 2007

    Americans will spend $9.8 billion on pet healthcare this year. Why is the President so insistent that we can't provide health coverage to poor children?

  • What Causes Cancer? Probably Not You

    July 19, 2007

    The perennial temptation to blame disease on sin or some grave moral failing just took another hit.

  • Healthcare vs. the Profit Principle

    July 12, 2007

    Sure we have a healthcare system in America. The trouble is, it's designed not to make people healthy but to make money.

  • This Land is My Land

    July 2, 2007

    The super-rich are taking over all the beautiful places in America. What's left for you and me?

  • Who Is Hillary Clinton?

    June 26, 2007

    A closer look at Hillary Clinton's career reveals a technocratic centrist whose political ambition might trump any progressive policy promises.

  • The Trouble With the Super-Rich

    June 12, 2007

    A bloated overclass can drag down a society as surely as a swelling underclass.

  • What America Owes its 'Illegals'

    June 12, 2007

    The punitive rage directed at illegal immigrants grows out of a larger blindness to the manual labor that makes our lives possible.

  • CEOs vs. Slaves

    May 29, 2007

    New chasms are opening in the unequal terrain of American society: To the ranks of exploited domestics and factory workers, consider the emerging proletariat of adjunct faculty and temporary attorneys.

  • Better to Be a Chimpanzee

    May 8, 2007

    To qualify for charity, a homeless Austrian chimp has petitioned the courts to be granted human status. If he wins, expect a surge of humans going over to the other side.

  • The Higher Education Scam

    April 30, 2007

    Marilee Jones excelled as admissions dean at MIT, until she was fired for falsifying her resume. But what good is a college degree, anyway?

  • This Space for Sale

    April 26, 2007

    The Philadelphia Inquirer is planning to run an editorial column sponsored by Citizens Bank. What's next--the Phillip Morris column on health issues?

  • Our Broken Mental Health System

    April 20, 2007

    Although the mental health industry eagerly gives A.D.D. diagnoses to little boys who can't sit still, Cho Seung-Hui's illness was ignored.

  • Nappy-headed Hos of the World Unite!

    April 13, 2007

    What aroused Imus's twisted admiration and antagonism was the reality of strong, determined, aggressive women.

2006

  • Downsized but Not Out

    October 19, 2006

    United Professionals, a new organization for college-educated workers at risk in a global economy, is joining the movement for economic justice.

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