Home Sweet Gone Home Sweet Gone
The subprime crisis was not just caused by lending run amok, but by unrestrained trading that made a precarious situation even worse.
Nov 30, 2007 / Nomi Prins
Stop the Subprime Tsunami Stop the Subprime Tsunami
Predatory lending is the biggest economic crisis since 1929, especially for the black and brown people caught in its grip.
Nov 30, 2007 / Rev. Jesse L. Jackson
Guns Beat Green: The Market Has Spoken Guns Beat Green: The Market Has Spoken
If you're looking for a sure bet in the new growth market, sell solar and buy surveillance. Forget wind, buy weapons.
Nov 29, 2007 / Column / Naomi Klein
The Dialectics of Revolution… Uh, Recycling The Dialectics of Revolution… Uh, Recycling
Looking askance at a practice widely supposed to be a pretty good idea.
Nov 29, 2007 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Citi’s Mexican Cronies Citi’s Mexican Cronies
As megabanks seek a subprime bailout, take a lesson from Mexico. Taxpayers of the world, hold on to your wallets.
Nov 29, 2007 / Jeff Faux
Pakistan’s Bomb: Have It Your Way Pakistan’s Bomb: Have It Your Way
Thanks to globalization, the 'Islamic bomb' turns out to be a little bit American, Canadian, Swiss, German, Dutch, British, Japanese and even Russian.
Nov 28, 2007 / Feature / Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins
Global Warming: The Rich Opt Out Global Warming: The Rich Opt Out
Conservation, like taxes, is for little people. When you're rich you can waste all the water you want.
Nov 28, 2007 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
WGA: Picket and Click It WGA: Picket and Click It
As the strike continues, Writers Guild members have turned the Internet into an organizing tool.
Nov 26, 2007 / Feature / Christopher Lisotta
Deal Breakers Deal Breakers
Two new books seek to galvanize progressives at a key political moment: Paul Krugman's The Conscience of a Liberal and Jonathan Chait's The Big Con.
Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein
Luxury Grub Luxury Grub
What's so great about designer chocolate if it's infested with cockroach droppings? As the economic widens, rich and poor still occupy the same food chain.
Nov 19, 2007 / Barbara Ehrenreich