Why Is the Justice Department Falling Short With Mortgage Settlements? Why Is the Justice Department Falling Short With Mortgage Settlements?
Financial penalties are good. Personal accountability would be better.
Aug 13, 2014 / Feature / The Editors
Why Is It So Controversial to Help Poor Mothers Afford Diapers? Why Is It So Controversial to Help Poor Mothers Afford Diapers?
A new bill would let families on welfare afford this basic necessity. What’s wrong with that?
Aug 13, 2014 / Bryce Covert
If Congress Won’t, Obama May Have to Address Corporate Tax Inversion If Congress Won’t, Obama May Have to Address Corporate Tax Inversion
America stands to lose a great deal more from inversion deals from companies President Obama calls “corporate deserters.”
Aug 13, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week, Look At Real Sharks: Payday Lenders This Week, Look At Real Sharks: Payday Lenders
Activists want to draw attention to some of the most predatory financial companies.
Aug 12, 2014 / George Zornick
Could Stronger Unions Make China More Democratic? Could Stronger Unions Make China More Democratic?
Chinese labor activist Han Dongfang thinks that democracy begins in the workplace.
Aug 11, 2014 / Michelle Chen
Why Are Black Workers Relegated to the Lowest-Paying Jobs at Baltimore’s Airport? Why Are Black Workers Relegated to the Lowest-Paying Jobs at Baltimore’s Airport?
Black workers at Thurgood Marshall Airport are concentrated in the lowest-paying and lowest-status jobs, earning as little as $8.50 per hour.
Aug 8, 2014 / Michelle Chen
Rupert Murdoch Has Dropped His $80 Billion Bid to Take Over Time Warner Rupert Murdoch Has Dropped His $80 Billion Bid to Take Over Time Warner
Why that’s a win for media diversity.
Aug 7, 2014 / Leslie Savan
How Gender Changes Piketty’s ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ How Gender Changes Piketty’s ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’
Reading the economist’s book through a feminist lens reveals the need for a richer array of anti-inequality policies.
Aug 6, 2014 / Kathleen Geier, Kate Bahn, Joelle Gamble, Zillah Eisenstein, and Heather Boushey
How the Deaths of 75 Workers at a Chinese Factory Could Have Been ‘Easily Prevented’ How the Deaths of 75 Workers at a Chinese Factory Could Have Been ‘Easily Prevented’
The massive explosion at a subcontracted auto parts supplier was preceded by a slew of blatant safety lapses.
Aug 6, 2014 / Michelle Chen
By John Boehner’s Logic, a Lot of Presidents Should Have Been Sued By John Boehner’s Logic, a Lot of Presidents Should Have Been Sued
Republicans are suing the president for doing what presidents do.
Aug 5, 2014 / John Nichols