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Wall Street

How Wall Street Defanged Dodd-Frank

Battalions of regulatory lawyers burrowed deep in the federal bureaucracy to foil reform.
Gary Rivlin

The Case for Ethical Fashion
As I saw on a reporting trip to Bangladesh, Rana Plaza was a disaster waiting to happen.
Elizabeth Cline
Posted May 1 2013 - 12:47pm
A California Town Bleeds From Sequestration's Cuts
Without its lifeline, a stream of federal aid, Lemoore is in crisis mode—and residents of all political stripes are united in outrage.
Gabriel Thompson
Posted Apr 24 2013 - 3:04pm
How Sequestration Hurts the Homeless
An already-bleak housing and homelessness situation is about to get a lot worse.
Greg Kaufmann
Posted Apr 24 2013 - 3:02pm

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News and Features

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What Happened to Working-Class New York? (The Gilded City, Labor, Society)

As images of wealth abound, the struggles of ordinary workers have become invisible.

Joshua Freeman
Paul Krugman
Why Was Paul Krugman So Wrong? (Foreign Policy, Economy, World)

Everyone's favorite Nobel-winning Keynesian is no longer gravely deluded on the global economy. How much can we trust him now? 

William Greider
Cash register
Meet the New Left: Small-Business Owners (Business)

Surveys demonstrate remarkably progressive attitudes on everything from taxation to regulation to the environment.

William Greider
Dollar bills
Stacking the Deck: The Phony 'Fix the Debt' Campaign (Budget Wars, Economic Policy, Conservatives and the American Right)

Pete Peterson’s $60 million push to sell corporate America’s ruthless austerity agenda.

The Editors
Union protest
How Can Labor Be Saved? (Labor Organizing and Activism, Labor)

American unions are in deep trouble. What’s the way out?

Josh Eidelson

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