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A Wall Street State of Mind (Economics, The Gilded City, Gap Between Wealth and Poverty, Economy)

How a city that once celebrated seamstresses and stevedores came to admire "big swinging dicks."

Steve Fraser
Margaret Thatcher
How Did Margaret Thatcher Do It? (World Leaders, Economic Policy, Gap Between Wealth and Poverty)

In every way, her agenda opposed the interests of ordinary working people. How did she get so many of them to vote against their own economic interests again and again?

Gary Younge
Obama in a camera's viewfinder
The Missing Link in Obama's Liberalism (Barack Obama, Corporate Lobbying, Media Analysis, Gap Between Wealth and Poverty, The Left)

The president's inaugural address touched all the important bases, except one.

Eric Alterman
Megaphone that reads Tax the Rich
The Great Regression (Economic Policy, Gap Between Wealth and Poverty, Taxes)

The decline of the progressive income tax and the rise of inequality.

Sam Pizzigati and Chuck Collins
Bringing the Fight to the Billionaires (Banking Predatory Lending, Social Justice, Activism, Gap Between Wealth and Poverty)

Whoever wins on November 6, progressive campaigns will continue to target the tiny elite that rules the country.

The Editors
Hurricane Sandy water
Against the Destruction of the World and the Climate by Greed (Climate Change, Activism, Gap Between Wealth and Poverty)

It’s time to ditch the political euphemisms, and start calling lies, theft and greed by their true name.

Rebecca Solnit
Astra Taylor: Your Debt Is Not Your Fault! (Occupy Wall Street, Gap Between Wealth and Poverty, Student Movements)

Occupy activists are moving debt from the personal to the political. 

The Nation
Occupy Debt
Occupy 2.0: Strike Debt (Banking Predatory Lending, Occupy Wall Street, Activism, Ethical Economics, Gap Between Wealth and Poverty)

Bereft of their big tent at Zuccotti Park, activists have found a unifying theme in debt.

Astra Taylor
Can Debt Spark a Revolution?
Can Debt Spark a Revolution? (Banking Predatory Lending, Occupy Wall Street, Ethical Economics, Gap Between Wealth and Poverty)

If Occupy evolves into a debt resistance movement, the results could be explosive.

David Graeber
Robert Reich's Illustrated Guide to the Romney-Ryan Economic Plan (Conservatives and the American Right, Election 2012, Gap Between Wealth and Poverty)

Economist Robert Reich took to the easel to break down the tenets of Paul Ryan's economic plan.

Robert Reich

Blogs

Thinking Big on Poverty
Katrina vanden Heuvel

We should be a country that does big things—like cut poverty in half in the next decade.

October 31, 2011
Paul Ryan Can't Hear the Catholic Church's Call for Economic Justice
John Nichols

The church has proposed a financial transaction tax in order to steer the economy “towards achieving the common good.” Is that class warfare?

October 29, 2011
Why Cornel West Was Arrested in Memory of Martin Luther King Jr., in Support of Occupy Movement
John Nichols

 On the day the King memorial was dedicated, Dr. Cornel West was arrested on the steps of the Supreme Court.

October 17, 2011
AFL-CIO's Trumka Hails Occupy Wall Street
John Nichols

 "Wall Street's out of control," declares the nation's top labor leader, as key unions begin to endorse the protest and call for similar demonstrations across the country.

September 30, 2011
Thousands Cheer Bernie Sanders's Appeal to Obama, Super-Committee: Make the Rich Pay for Deficits
John Nichols

Headlining Wisconsin's Fighting Bob Fest, the largest annual gathering of progressives in the country, the Vermont senator drew the loudest cheers for a stern warning to the president and his colleagues on the congressional “super-committee” that has been charged with deficit reduction: don’t balance budgets on the backs of working Americans. Make the rich pay their fair share.

September 18, 2011
Elizabeth Warren Runs Against a DC That's "Rigged for Big Corporations"
John Nichols

The consumer advocate's pitch-perfect populist message is exactly what Democrats need to say -- and hear -- in 2012.

September 14, 2011
Tell President Obama: Jobs, Not Cuts
Peter Rothberg

Implore the White House to make every effort to defend Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid.

September 7, 2011
Obama Better Give One Hell of a Speech
John Nichols

Zero job growth, a 16.2 percent real unemployment rate, a shrinking work week, declining pay: Obama has his Labor Day work cut out for him.

September 2, 2011
How Will We Pay for Obama's New Jobs Push? Answer: Tax Wall Street
John Nichols

President Obama will propose a needed jobs program. But how to get it through a Congress that growls, “America's broke”? Fight for a financial transactions tax.

August 31, 2011
Feingold's Next Campaign: Pushing DC Democrats to Oppose Cuts and Corporate Giveaways
John Nichols

The former senator is organizing a national push to get Democrats on the Congressional “super-committee” to commit to fight cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, to oppose any giveaways to corporations and to tax the billionaires.

 

August 24, 2011
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