Truckers Hit the Brakes Truckers Hit the Brakes
Hard hit by rising costs and the threat of losing their rigs, truckers are staging protests, calling for a bailout and lower fuel prices. What if the rest of us joined them?
Apr 7, 2008 / Editorial / Barbara Ehrenreich
Dems Flunking Trade 101 Dems Flunking Trade 101
As Clinton rewrites the history of her support for NAFTA, Obama needs to prove he understands what's wrong with global trade pacts.
Apr 3, 2008 / Editorial / John Nichols
Put Inflation on the Political Agenda Put Inflation on the Political Agenda
Gas is up, sneakers are up, onions are up and eggs, too. The only thing that is not up is your income.
Mar 28, 2008 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
For a Social Bailout For a Social Bailout
Let's reinvent progressive economic policy, starting with our own sovereign wealth fund to deal with urgent social needs.
Mar 27, 2008 / Editorial / Robin Blackburn
Extreme Inequality Extreme Inequality
A look at the gap between rich and poor via two books: David Cay Johnson's Free Lunch and Michael J. Thompson's The Politics of Inequality.
Mar 20, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Brook
Democratizing Capital Democratizing Capital
New Deal progressives believed the economy should exist to serve society, not the other way around.
Mar 20, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Sherle R. Schwenninger
The Only Fitting Tribute The Only Fitting Tribute
For Roosevelt, the New Deal was a way of advancing freedom, which depended on economic as much as political rights.
Mar 20, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Frances Moore Lappé
The Gentlemen’s Bailout The Gentlemen’s Bailout
The power of Wall Street money and ideas must give way to a new public agenda to restore the real economy.
Mar 20, 2008 / Editorial / The Editors
The Math on Government Spending The Math on Government Spending
Proving once and for all that progressive economic projects are worth more than tax cuts.
Mar 11, 2008 / Editorial / Daniel Carol
How to Swim Against the Current How to Swim Against the Current
People are wriggling free of the fetters of corporate culture.
Mar 6, 2008 / Feature / Jim Hightower and Susan DeMarco