India’s Love Affair with the Privatization of Everything India’s Love Affair with the Privatization of Everything
Arundhati Roy's new book, Capitalism: A Ghost Story, reveals the contours of power in India today.
Dec 15, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Priyamvada Gopal
VIDEO: Elizabeth Warren Blasts Citigroup From the Senate Floor VIDEO: Elizabeth Warren Blasts Citigroup From the Senate Floor
Out of the Senate debate over another sellout to the big banks comes the clarion call for a new populist politics.
Dec 14, 2014 / Blog / John Nichols
The Spending Bill’s Wall Street Giveaway Is Bad, but That’s Not All The Spending Bill’s Wall Street Giveaway Is Bad, but That’s Not All
Along with hobbling Dodd-Frank, the so-called “Cromnibus” assaults a number of important priorities.
Dec 12, 2014 / Blog / Zoë Carpenter
Congress Is Poised to Hand Wall Street a Huge Victory Congress Is Poised to Hand Wall Street a Huge Victory
But opposition among Democrats is growing.
Dec 10, 2014 / Blog / Zoë Carpenter
Chilean Activists Change the Rules of the Game Chilean Activists Change the Rules of the Game
Graduating from protesters to politicians, Chile’s student leaders achieved the legislative wins that have eluded their Occupy counterparts.
Dec 10, 2014 / Foreign Policy In Focus / Sebastian Rosemont and Foreign Policy In Focus
Would You Rather Get Your Water From Your City Government—or From a Corporation? Would You Rather Get Your Water From Your City Government—or From a Corporation?
Water privatization could soon be the next front in the austerity wars.
Dec 8, 2014 / Blog / Michelle Chen
Bernie Sanders’s Bold Economic Agenda Seeks to Transform Politics Bernie Sanders’s Bold Economic Agenda Seeks to Transform Politics
The senator has a twelve-point plan for getting the debate, and perhaps the movement, started.
Dec 3, 2014 / Blog / John Nichols
The Case for Reparations (to Undocumented Workers) The Case for Reparations (to Undocumented Workers)
How do we calculate the uncompensated labor of Mexican and Central American migrants?
Dec 1, 2014 / Blog / Greg Grandin
How One Woman Tried—and Failed—to Stop the Fed From Driving the US Into Recession How One Woman Tried—and Failed—to Stop the Fed From Driving the US Into Recession
Nancy Teeters, who passed away last week, was the lone dissenter as Volcker’s Federal Reserve tore apart the country’s social fabric.
Nov 24, 2014 / Blog / William Greider