Occupy Wall Street and the Pope Agree: It’s Time to Tax Speculators Occupy Wall Street and the Pope Agree: It’s Time to Tax Speculators
On the streets, at the Vatican, at the G-20, in Congress and in front of the US Treasury building: The call is rising for a financial transactions tax. It will get a lot louder in ...
Oct 26, 2011 / John Nichols
Is the National Security Complex Too Big To Fail? Is the National Security Complex Too Big To Fail?
Think of Iraq as the AIG of wars, only this bailout is still going on.
Oct 20, 2011 / Tom Engelhardt
Murdoch’s Accountability Moment Murdoch’s Accountability Moment
Rupert Murdoch meets his stockholders Friday amidst rising scrutiny from investors—and perhaps from the Justice Department.
Oct 19, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Street Heat Nation Street Heat Nation
From Salem to Salt Lake City, Occupy Wall Street is gathering energy and bursting outward.
Oct 13, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Executive Pay and the Great Tax Dodge Executive Pay and the Great Tax Dodge
A new report on excessive CEO salaries underscores the need to restore sanity to pay equity and corporate taxes.
Aug 31, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Slide Show: Ten CEOs Who Tax-Dodged Their Way to Riches Slide Show: Ten CEOs Who Tax-Dodged Their Way to Riches
Of last year’s 100 highest-paid US CEOs, twenty-five took home more in compensation than their company paid in 2010 federal income taxes. As a new report by the Institute for…
Aug 31, 2011 / Photo Essay / The Nation and Institute for Policy Studies
Daylight Robbery, Meet Nighttime Robbery Daylight Robbery, Meet Nighttime Robbery
The UK rioters know full well that their elites are looters too.
Aug 24, 2011 / Column / Naomi Klein
A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week for Standard & Poor’s A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week for Standard & Poor’s
Following an SEC review of its downgrade decision, Standard & Poor’s is now facing a Department of Justice probe and lost business from several municipalities.
Aug 19, 2011 / George Zornick
Subprime Contagion Subprime Contagion
Is America finally learning that extreme inequality isn't just bad for those at the bottom—it’s ruinous for those on top, too?
Aug 10, 2011 / Chris Hayes
Barbara Ehrenreich: On (Not) Getting By in America Barbara Ehrenreich: On (Not) Getting By in America
Jobs are not jobs unless workers can live off of their wages in a way that does not trap them in eternal poverty.
Aug 8, 2011 / Democracy Now!