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.....
2009
2008
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The Importance of Perspective
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.
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Addressing Inequity in Education
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.
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Spreading the Wealth
Amid the ruins of a new gilded age, the devalued and depressed American people are ready to demand more.
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Human Ecology
As human actions change the planet in irreversable ways, will human bonds suffer irreversable damage, too?
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Extreme Inequality
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.
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Homeless in New Orleans
Lizzy Ratner : Social & Economic Rights
The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has turned New Orleans into a tragic Tale of Two Cities.
2007
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Global Warming: The Rich Opt Out
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.
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Deal Breakers
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.
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Luxury Grub
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.
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Give Us This Day Our Daily Debt
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.
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Travails of the Super-Rich
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.
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The Bloatocrats
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.
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The Trouble With the Super-Rich
A bloated overclass can drag down a society as surely as a swelling underclass.
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CEOs vs. Slaves
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.
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