O’Reilly Overboard O’Reilly Overboard
Update: Thanks to commenter jimmylove for pointing out that The O'Reilly Factor has, in fact, done segments targeting Wall Street Executives. We regret the error. Last night Jo...
Feb 10, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Screwed by the Fine Print Screwed by the Fine Print
Hidden in the fine print of credit card agreements, patient consent forms and job contracts is an arbitration clause that deprives you of your rights. Congress needs to fix that.
Feb 10, 2009 / Feature / Kia Franklin
Jon Stewart Rips Bill O’Reilly Over Hypocrisy On Privacy Jon Stewart Rips Bill O’Reilly Over Hypocrisy On Privacy
Jon Stewart ridicules the Fox News host for ambushing a Columbia Journalism Review staffer for publishing a piece by a writer from The Nation.
Feb 10, 2009 / The Daily Show
The New Gold Standard: Jobs The New Gold Standard: Jobs
Keeping labor costs down used to be the standard to measure productivity. Now, it's all about creating jobs--and we can't afford to wait for the private sector to provide them.
Feb 10, 2009 / Feature / Ken Miller
Angry America and the Bailout Angry America and the Bailout
As the bailout state goes into overdrive, popular anger at the lords of Wall Street is raging. In 1929, that anger was harnessed to result in huge change. Is the same change possib...
Feb 10, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Steve Fraser
The GOP Plays Politics With Our Economy The GOP Plays Politics With Our Economy
The Nation's Chris Hayes explains how Republican opposition to Obama's stimulus is really the result of their own inability to govern.
Feb 10, 2009 / Countdown
The Business of War The Business of War
Even as congress denies billions in assistance to states, there is little if any talk of cutting US defense spending. Who's profiting and what is their interest in maintaining a wa...
Feb 10, 2009 / GRITtv
Iran Opens Door for Talks Iran Opens Door for Talks
President Ahmadinejad -- who's recently been described as "the Unidentified Flying Object of Iranian and global politics" whose "antics have made Iran a laughingstock on the world...
Feb 10, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
A-Rod, Anabolic Agonist A-Rod, Anabolic Agonist
When it comes to steroids, no one, as A-Rod's alleged paramour Madonna might say, is like a virgin.
Feb 10, 2009 / Column / Dave Zirin
Senate Should Pursue Truth About Bush-Cheney Abuses Senate Should Pursue Truth About Bush-Cheney Abuses
Proposing the creation of a "truth commission" to examine the high crimes and misdemeanors of the Bush-Cheney administration, Senate Judiciary Committee chair Patrick Leahy declar...
Feb 10, 2009 / John Nichols