Thinking Big on Poverty Thinking Big on Poverty
We should be a country that does big things—like cut poverty in half in the next decade.
Oct 31, 2011 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Paul Ryan Can’t Hear the Catholic Church’s Call for Economic Justice Paul Ryan Can’t Hear the Catholic Church’s Call for Economic Justice
The church has proposed a financial transaction tax in order to steer the economy “towards achieving the common good.” Is that class warfare?
Oct 30, 2011 / Blog / John Nichols
Nation Conversations: Roane Carey and William Greider on the Housing Crisis’s ‘Death Spiral’ Nation Conversations: Roane Carey and William Greider on the Housing Crisis’s ‘Death Spiral’
The only way out of our national mortgage crisis is through widespread debt forgiveness.
Oct 28, 2011 / Audio / The Nation
This Week: Ideas From the 99 Percent. PLUS: Ending Corporate Personhood This Week: Ideas From the 99 Percent. PLUS: Ending Corporate Personhood
This week, a special forum on "Ideas from the 99 Percent." The We the People Campaign kicks into gear, plus an exclusive look at the "wildest" school boar...
Oct 28, 2011 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Katrina vanden Heuvel to Obama: ‘Let’s Fight for the People’ Katrina vanden Heuvel to Obama: ‘Let’s Fight for the People’
Katrina vanden Heuvel accuses Paul Ryan of pandering to Washington's "austerity class"—and argues that the President needs to stand with the majority of Americ...
Oct 28, 2011 / Nation in the News / Press Room
Nation Conversations: Roane Carey and Ari Berman on the Rise of the Austerity Class Nation Conversations: Roane Carey and Ari Berman on the Rise of the Austerity Class
Why do austerity measures remain so popular within the beltway while the overwhelming evidence in the rest of the country points to the fact that such measures increase unemploymen...
Oct 28, 2011 / Audio / The Nation
Why the Supercommittee Should Go Small Why the Supercommittee Should Go Small
Groups urging Congress to achieve $4 trillion in deficit reduction are totally divorced from political and economic reality.
Oct 28, 2011 / Blog / Ari Berman
How the Wounding of a Vet Who Dared to Dissent Stirred a New Wave of Dissent How the Wounding of a Vet Who Dared to Dissent Stirred a New Wave of Dissent
The violence in Oakland has provoked a global outcry, as activists ask how a Marine can survive Iraq only to be seriously injured while peacefully protesting on the streets of an A...
Oct 27, 2011 / Blog / John Nichols
Debt Forgiveness, Euro-Style Debt Forgiveness, Euro-Style
The big nations of the EU worked out a deal to resolve their financial crisis that does what US politicians lack the nerve to pursue. The Europeans are whacking the bankers big-...
Oct 27, 2011 / Blog / William Greider
Thirty Years of Unleashed Greed and the Beginnings of Class Warfare Thirty Years of Unleashed Greed and the Beginnings of Class Warfare
Those three decades of rampant upper-crust greed unleashed by the Reagan Revolution of the 1980s will be well marked by future historians recording the death of the American dream.
Oct 27, 2011 / Robert Scheer