Time to Disband the Supercommittee Time to Disband the Supercommittee
The vast majority of Americans want Congress to focus on jobs. So why is it still focused on deficit reduction—and making key budget decisions in secret?
Nov 9, 2011 / The Editors
Why Aren’t the Jobless Flocking to Zuccotti Park? Why Aren’t the Jobless Flocking to Zuccotti Park?
Blaming themselves for their plight, the unemployed don’t look to protest—or to government—for a way out.
Nov 9, 2011 / Feature / Louis Uchitelle
It’s Time for Debt Forgiveness, American-Style It’s Time for Debt Forgiveness, American-Style
The nation’s largest banks are methodically harvesting the last possible pound of flesh from millions of homeowners. We should put a stop to it.
Oct 26, 2011 / Feature / William Greider
OWS to Supercommittee: Accountability, Not Austerity! OWS to Supercommittee: Accountability, Not Austerity!
As the Congressional budget supercommittee deliberates, fiscal hawks are calling for “tough choices.” The 99 percent are demanding economic justice.
Oct 19, 2011 / The Editors
How the Austerity Class Rules Washington How the Austerity Class Rules Washington
A powerful, bipartisan coalition of deficit hawks has manufactured a center-right consensus that dominates the Beltway.
Oct 19, 2011 / Feature / Ari Berman
Nurses’ Prescription for Healing Our Economy Nurses’ Prescription for Healing Our Economy
When it comes to a financial transactions tax, European conservatives and American nurses are way ahead of President Obama.
Oct 5, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
AFL-CIO’s Trumka Hails Occupy Wall Street AFL-CIO’s Trumka Hails Occupy Wall Street
"Wall Street's out of control," declares the nation's top labor leader, as key unions begin to endorse the protest and call for similar demonstrations across the co...
Sep 30, 2011 / John Nichols
Cruel America Cruel America
Roars of applause for executions at the GOP debate, official approval of torture, barbaric prison conditions, obstruction of aid to storm victims and children in need—is our ...
Sep 28, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell
Save the Post Office! Save the Post Office!
The privatization vultures and deficit hawks want to pick apart this essential public service. But the PO is not only a vital community asset; it’s perfectly positioned to le...
Sep 28, 2011 / John Nichols
What Would Keynes Do? What Would Keynes Do?
The GOP declares Keynesianism dead, but it hasn’t really been tried. The great economist would have us do much more than “prime the pump” to pull the country out of this morass.
Sep 27, 2011 / Feature / Thomas Geoghegan