Snapshot of a Plutocracy Snapshot of a Plutocracy
Every person on this year's Forbes 400 list of America's richest people is a billionaire, who collectively possess about $1.25 trillion. Imagine how many Congressmen that will buy.
Sep 26, 2006 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
The Growing Wage Gap The Growing Wage Gap
A winning economic strategy for Democrats: Push for realistic policies to relieve workers' frustrations, rebuild their damaged confidence and improve lifetime security.
Sep 21, 2006 / Editorial / Jeff Madrick
China’s Neoliberal Dynasty China’s Neoliberal Dynasty
As China's economy surges forward, so does the pileup of social contradictions: pollution, migration, crime and family dysfunction.
Sep 14, 2006 / Feature / Peter Kwong
Your 401(k) Won’t Help When You Need It Your 401(k) Won’t Help When You Need It
If you're depending on private savings accounts to get you through retirement, get ready for a bitter surprise, thanks to the crooks and incompetents charged with selling and runni...
Sep 6, 2006 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
Undone by Neoliberalism Undone by Neoliberalism
Before the storm, neoliberalism shaped the social and economic inequities of New Orleans; after Hurricane Katrina, it worsened them by making government the tool of corporations an...
Aug 31, 2006 / Feature / Adolph Reed Jr.
Pay To Be Saved Pay To Be Saved
Unless something changes soon, New Orleans will prove to be a glimpse of a dystopic future, a future of disaster apartheid in which the wealthy are saved and everyone else is left ...
Aug 29, 2006 / Feature / Naomi Klein
Hog Hell Hog Hell
Low wages, segregation and dangerous working conditions in a North Carolina factory reveal a meatpacking industry where labor laws no longer matter.
Aug 27, 2006 / Feature / Eric Schlosser
Mean or Green? Mean or Green?
Wal-Mart is serious about bringing organic food to the masses, but transportation costs and the retail giant's aggressive competitive ways could end up hurting small farms and the ...
Aug 24, 2006 / Feature / Liza Featherstone
Hard Labor Hard Labor
The organic label means your food is pesticide-free, but an investigation into California farms reveals that the label means nothing but pain for the workers who produced it.
Aug 24, 2006 / Feature / Felicia Mello
The New Nativism The New Nativism
The nation must address the working-class anxieties underlying the anti-Hispanic sentiments now rising in Middle America--and Congress must pass an enlightened immigration bill tha...
Aug 10, 2006 / Editorial / The Editors