No Free Ride for Finance No Free Ride for Finance
A financial activities tax (FAT) would encourage long-term investing and help plug budget deficits. Can states rally to pass them?
May 11, 2011 / Feature / Dean Baker
US Uncut Brings Its Lesson to a Corporate Tax Dodger US Uncut Brings Its Lesson to a Corporate Tax Dodger
On April 30, US Uncut protesters came to New York CIty to hold classes in lobbies of one of the biggest corporate tax dodgers in the US: Bank of America.
May 11, 2011 / The Nation
Losers Take All: On the New American Cinema Losers Take All: On the New American Cinema
How B-movie directors and young mavericks rattled Hollywood's dream machine.
May 11, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Heather Hendershot
Chris Christie: GOP White Knight or White Elephant? Chris Christie: GOP White Knight or White Elephant?
Iowa conservatives are begging the NJ governor to run for president, but they seem unaware of his falling poll numbers—and his Xanadu problem.
May 11, 2011 / Leslie Savan
House Republicans Shred Constitution With Backdoor Proposal of Permanent War House Republicans Shred Constitution With Backdoor Proposal of Permanent War
They've added a provision to the defense spending bill outlining a permanent "Authorization for Use of Military Force."
May 11, 2011 / John Nichols
Countervailing Powers: On John Kenneth Galbraith Countervailing Powers: On John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith was a satirist of economics as much as a practitioner of it.
May 11, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein
In Our Orbit: Desolation Peaks In Our Orbit: Desolation Peaks
In Fire Season Philip Connors offers a tribute to the life of solitude he leads as a fire lookout in the Gila National Forest.
May 11, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Judith Long
After White House Invite, Conservatives Get Tough on Soft Rapper After White House Invite, Conservatives Get Tough on Soft Rapper
The Right's clueless faux outrage over a rapper they might actually support—if only he hadn't been invited to the White House.
May 11, 2011 / Ari Melber
Tens of Thousands Join Protest of Mexico’s Drug War Tens of Thousands Join Protest of Mexico’s Drug War
Mexican citizens stand up to the drug war within their borders and demand an end to the violence and a change in US security policy in the region.
May 11, 2011 / Democracy Now!
What’s the GOP Without Osama bin Laden? What’s the GOP Without Osama bin Laden?
Beating up on Medicare won’t cut it as a platform when you don’t have the specter of bin Laden to scare voters.
May 11, 2011 / Robert Scheer