Nation Topics - Milton Friedman | The Nation

The massive popular protests that shook the globe this year have much in common, though most of the reporting on them in the mainstream media has obscured the similarities.

Just three years ago, President Obama was an unapologetic Keynesian. Now, he's jumped on the deficit hysteria bandwagon.

Vouching for vouchers; Elizabeth Warren for president; three kinds of Republican idiots; Borgesian grammar

A trove of documents reveals the vast procorporate strategy of this powerful right-wing group.

As thirty-six states contemplate privatization measures, public schools are on the defensive.

After a testosterone-fueled boom and bust, the women of Iceland took charge.

Obama's flawed tax compromise is just the latest result of the Democrats' failure to clearly explain their vision for this country's economic future.

Introducing the Republican Party's rising stars.

The one thing that a thousand books written from within the financial crisis won't contemplate is the possibility of an unhappy ending for capitalism.

It is Chile's democratic, socialist roots, not the free-marketers who prevailed after Pinochet's coup, that are to thank for the strict building codes that have protected citizens from the earthquake.