Nation Topics - Joseph Stiglitz | The Nation

Why do journalists run interference for the 1 percent, when their job is to expose their schemes?

Lo que está en juego es muchísimo.

As politicians dither, the threat of default spreads from Greece to Spain and Italy.

Not really. But debates on rising inequality are now de rigueur at the World Economic Forum.

COLLEGE FINALIST: My generation must take on the task of building strong community economies and reestablishing collective wealth for all people. 

It was an ignominious end to America's worst foreign policy disaster since the Vietnam War, and the costs, for both Iraq and the United States, will be felt for some time.

Think of Iraq as the AIG of wars, only this bailout is still going on.

In a stunning victory for the American peace movement and Iraqi opponents of the US occupation, virtually all US troops will withdraw from Iraq by this December 31.

Republicans walked away from a budget deal not because cuts weren’t steep enough but because they included tax increases on the wealthiest. If they’re drawing a line in the sand, President Obama must, too.

The Sarkozy commission advanced new ways of measuring progress—but hurdles remain.