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Denialists are dead wrong about the science. But they understand something the left still doesn’t get about the revolutionary meaning of climate change.

The only way to provide for a growing populace in need of a larger infrastructure is by raising the debt ceiling.

The explosive diplomatic cables prove what many Haitians already knew about US and UN meddling in the country.

The political and economic system is broken. It's time we step back and rethink how we can make capitalism work for us.

Leaked documents provide an extraordinary glimpse of US maneuvering in Haiti from before the 2004 coup through the devastating 2010 earthquake.

The GOP is manipulating the current financial situation to push through unpopular policies that would have never gotten them elected. 

 As the right works to portray Obama as a socialist, John Nichols explains how positive socialist ideals have been blacklisted from our political discourse. 

The story of the financial debacle will end the way it began, with the super-hustlers from Goldman Sachs at the center of the action and profiting wildly.

There aren't too many genuine heroes to come out of the banking disaster, but Armando Falcon is one of them--and had he been listened to, a significant part of the housing crisis could have been mitigated.

Nation editor Christopher Hayes discusses how the top twenty-five hedge fund managers made $25 billion last year and what financial reform can do to correct this inequality.