An Epoch Named!
Chuck Collins & Sam Pizzigati : U.S. Economy
Your submissions to the Name Our Epoch contest were awesome: The Age of Avarice, The Crassical Period, The Bling Bang, The New Steal. And the winner is.....
Chuck Collins & Sam Pizzigati : U.S. Economy
Your submissions to the Name Our Epoch contest were awesome: The Age of Avarice, The Crassical Period, The Bling Bang, The New Steal. And the winner is.....
Natalia Thompson : Barack Obama Administration
This essay, a finalist in The Nation's Student Writing Contest, argues that the most important prerequisite for being a good president cannot be found in the marble hallways of the nation's elite institutions.
Laine Alison Zalac : Youth, Education, & Children
This essay, the high school winner of The Nation's Student Writing Contest, argues that until inequities in education are eliminated, a permanent underclass will continue to exist.
Amid the ruins of a new gilded age, the devalued and depressed American people are ready to demand more.
As human actions change the planet in irreversable ways, will human bonds suffer irreversable damage, too?
Daniel Brook : Economic Policy
A look at the gap between rich and poor via two books: David Cay Johnson's Free Lunch and Michael J. Thompson's The Politics of Inequality.
Lizzy Ratner : Social & Economic Rights
The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has turned New Orleans into a tragic Tale of Two Cities.
Nicholas von Hoffman : Global Warming & Climate Change
Conservation, like taxes, is for little people. When you're rich you can waste all the water you want.
Kim Phillips-Fein : Economic Policy
Two new books seek to galvanize progressives at a key political moment: Paul Krugman's The Conscience of a Liberal and Jonathan Chait's The Big Con.
Barbara Ehrenreich : Food & Nutrition
What's so great about designer chocolate if it's infested with cockroach droppings? As the economic widens, rich and poor still occupy the same food chain.
Nicholas von Hoffman : U.S. Economy
As the superrich get richer, the rest of us sink deeper into debt. But when American consumers can no longer consume, our whole system falls apart.
Barbara Ehrenreich : Wages & Hours
Just in time for Labor Day, a new report on the gap between the boss and the average worker is a gleefully malicious attack on the richest CEOs.
The New York Times turns a spotlight on the super-rich who veil their affluence in assertions of the good that they do. It makes Gordon Gekko's naked greed look good.
A bloated overclass can drag down a society as surely as a swelling underclass.
Barbara Ehrenreich : Wages & Hours
New chasms are opening in the unequal terrain of American society: To the ranks of exploited domestics and factory workers, consider the emerging proletariat of adjunct faculty and temporary attorneys.
