In Flint, Michigan, Overpriced Water is Causing People’s Skin to Erupt in Rashes and Hair to Fall Out. In Flint, Michigan, Overpriced Water is Causing People’s Skin to Erupt in Rashes and Hair to Fall Out.
As the nation’s infrastructure falls apart, water is becoming more expensive and less safe.
Jul 16, 2015 / Curt Guyette
How Prison Reform Became a Presidential Priority How Prison Reform Became a Presidential Priority
Obama’s prison visit would have been unimaginable just a few years ago. But organizing and advocacy created a new consensus.
Jul 16, 2015 / Benjamin Todd Jealous
Austerity Has Been Discredited. So Why Won’t It Die? Austerity Has Been Discredited. So Why Won’t It Die?
Greece has been pushed to the brink not to help its economy, but to show who’s in charge.
Jul 16, 2015 / Editorial / Sarah Leonard
How Goldman Sachs Profited From the Greek Debt Crisis How Goldman Sachs Profited From the Greek Debt Crisis
The investment bank made millions by helping to hide the true extent of the debt, and in the process almost doubled it.
Jul 16, 2015 / Editorial / Robert B. Reich
Was This Victim of a Police Shooting Dangerous, or Just Sick? Was This Victim of a Police Shooting Dangerous, or Just Sick?
What the cops saw made all the difference.
Jul 16, 2015 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Germany’s Social Democrats Are Colluding in Greece’s Destruction—and I’m Leaving The Party Germany’s Social Democrats Are Colluding in Greece’s Destruction—and I’m Leaving The Party
Germany’s largest left-of-center party no longer represents left values.
Jul 15, 2015 / Yascha Mounk
How Much Has Public Opinion Driven the Greek Debt Negotiations? How Much Has Public Opinion Driven the Greek Debt Negotiations?
Public opinion plays a larger role in negotiations than you might expect.
Jul 15, 2015 / Ethan Corey
The Government May Already Have the Law It Needs to Beat Big Oil The Government May Already Have the Law It Needs to Beat Big Oil
A document revealing Exxon knew as early as 1981 that carbon emissions drive climate change adds weight to suggestions that fossil-fuel companies be prosecuted under a racketeering...
Jul 15, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter
Progressives Aim to Push Hillary on Wall Street Reform Progressives Aim to Push Hillary on Wall Street Reform
Clinton pleased activists with her speech earlier this week, but won’t be backing one key reform.
Jul 15, 2015 / George Zornick
Why Is It So Hard for Corinthian Students to Get Their Promised Debt Relief? Why Is It So Hard for Corinthian Students to Get Their Promised Debt Relief?
Many former students of the disgraced diploma mill remain in a financial straitjacket, lacking the resources and legal savvy to navigate an opaque relief process.
Jul 15, 2015 / Michelle Chen