Naomi Klein: The Mainstream Media Has Dropped the Ball on Occupy Wall Street Naomi Klein: The Mainstream Media Has Dropped the Ball on Occupy Wall Street
Since they can no loner ignore the occupation, the mainstream media has decided to mock and dismiss it instead.
Oct 6, 2011 / Press Room
What Would Keynes Do? A Forum, Part 2 What Would Keynes Do? A Forum, Part 2
A second round of responses from economists and wonks to Thomas Geoghegan's Nation essay “What Would Keynes Do?”
Oct 6, 2011 / Dean Baker, Alice Amsden, and Louis Uchitelle
Occupation Nation Goes to Washington Occupation Nation Goes to Washington
The Wall Street protesters have created the template for an ambitious new occupation in the nation’s capital.
Oct 6, 2011 / Nathan Schneider
‘Sharing Is Caring’: Students and Teachers Explain Why They Marched to Occupy Wall Street ‘Sharing Is Caring’: Students and Teachers Explain Why They Marched to Occupy Wall Street
Conversations that took place at the march from Foley Square on October 5.
Oct 6, 2011 / StudentNation / Josh Eidelson
Flat-lining the Middle Class: Economic Numbers to Die For Flat-lining the Middle Class: Economic Numbers to Die For
Life support for our economy is nowhere close to arriving. One lost decade may have ended, but the next one has likely only begun.
Oct 6, 2011 / Andy Kroll
What Do They Want? Justice What Do They Want? Justice
How can anyone possessed of the faintest sense of social justice not thrill to the Occupy Wall Street movement now spreading throughout the country?
Oct 6, 2011 / Robert Scheer
Video: Occupy Wall Street Not Just for the Young Video: Occupy Wall Street Not Just for the Young
There are plenty of young people at Occupy Wall Street, but the protests are not just a young man's game.
Oct 6, 2011 / Jin Zhao and Teresa Cotsirilos
Unions, Thousands Join Occupy Wall Street’s Fight Unions, Thousands Join Occupy Wall Street’s Fight
Thousands of people gathered at Foley Square in New York City, including many prominent unions, to demand an end to the bailout of Wall Street and a beginning to the bailing out of...
Oct 5, 2011 / Allison Kilkenny
Occupy LA Endorsed by City Council Members; Demonstrators Protest at Home of Bank CEO Occupy LA Endorsed by City Council Members; Demonstrators Protest at Home of Bank CEO
Official responses to Occupy Wall Street in LA and NYC have been different—really different.
Oct 5, 2011 / Jon Wiener
CEO CEO
Hewlett-Packard CEO, fired after disastrous eleven-month reign, gets $13 million in termination benefits. —news reports One job’s a job I never would forgo. That job, of course, is being CEO. According to the customs now prevailing, It pays a lot—and pays you more for failing. It must be nice to have a job wherein You cannot lose, for if you lose you win.
Oct 5, 2011 / Column / Calvin Trillin