Diagnosing America's Ailing Economy

• Still Doing God's Work on Wall Street

  U.S. Economy

  Robert Scheer: Is anyone ever going to be held accountable for the sweetheart deals that passed billions of taxpayer dollars through the AIG shell game to the banks that caused the meltdown?

• Kaptur Takes on Foreclosures

  Housing & Homelessness

  Greg Kaufmann: Representative Marcy Kaptur, a longstanding advocate for foreclosure relief, talks to The Nation about prospects for sweeping financial reform.

• In the Shadow of Hoover

  U.S. Economy

  William Greider: Deficit spending is a cure for our troubles, not the cause. If Obama reduces the red ink, the Great Recession could be born again

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• New Report Reveals US Funds the Taliban

  Afghanistan War

  Democracy Now : Nation contributor Aram Roston on how the US government is financing the very same insurgent forces in Afghanistan that American and NATO soldiers are fighting.

• Triple Canopy Iraq and Electrocution Deaths

  Iraq War

  Democracy Now : Jeremy Scahill appears with the Hermanson family, whose son Adam was killed in Iraq while employed with Triple Canopy, the "new Blackwater."

• CIA Hires Blackwater for Assassinations

  Blackwater

  Democracy Now : The Nation's Jeremy Scahill talks about the possible involvement of the private contractor's owner Erik Prince in multiple murders.