Hard Knocks in the Bronx Hard Knocks in the Bronx
Meet Ginnina Slowe, resident of the nation’s poorest urban county, where poverty is expensive—especially when you try to get out of it.
Dec 14, 2011 / Feature / Kai Wright
Bad Credit: How Payday Lenders Evade Regulation Bad Credit: How Payday Lenders Evade Regulation
The $30 billion-a-year industry continues to fleece borrowers with high rates and shady terms.
Apr 6, 2011 / Feature / Kai Wright
The Inherent Self-Destruction of Government-vs.-the People Ideology The Inherent Self-Destruction of Government-vs.-the People Ideology
The violence in Arizona is about more than Sarah Palin's semantics. It's an indictment of decades' worth of right-wing enemy-in-our-midst politics and governance.
Jan 10, 2011 / The Notion / Kai Wright
Obama’s Bizarre Celebration of a Slave Republic’s ‘Compromises’ Obama’s Bizarre Celebration of a Slave Republic’s ‘Compromises’
The president said many objectionable things in selling his tax- cut plan, but his assertions about America's history of compromising was too much to stomach.
Dec 8, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Kai Wright
In Defense of Government In Defense of Government
Obama must realize he's fighting about more than tax cuts. It's a defining battle and he can win, if he'd just join it.
Dec 6, 2010 / The Notion / Kai Wright
Economy, Not Health Care or Deficits, Drove Midterm Vote Economy, Not Health Care or Deficits, Drove Midterm Vote
This week’s Republican "tsunami" is textbook politics: voters united around, well, the same frustrations they had two years ago.
Nov 3, 2010 / The Notion / Kai Wright
Foreclosure Fraud Fallout Foreclosure Fraud Fallout
As long as Obama allows banks to write their own rules on foreclosure, he's a willful participant in their ongoing scam.
Oct 20, 2010 / Editorial / Kai Wright
Jobs and Income Data Add Up to an Historically Unequal Future Jobs and Income Data Add Up to an Historically Unequal Future
The recession’s legacy will be an unprecedentedly imbalanced, winner-takes-all economy.
Oct 8, 2010 / The Notion / Kai Wright
The Poverty Nation Washington Built The Poverty Nation Washington Built
The massive job losses between 2008 and 2009 were surely the biggest factor in the record poverty numbers the Census just reported. But those harrowing months were neither the be...
Sep 17, 2010 / The Notion / Kai Wright
Glenn Beck’s Perverse Revision of King’s Dream Is Nothing New Glenn Beck’s Perverse Revision of King’s Dream Is Nothing New
As long as rightwingers remain the loudest voices talking about race, they'll continue to dominate the conversation.
Aug 27, 2010 / The Notion / Kai Wright