Economy

The Post-Midterms Game Plan for Progressives

The Post-Midterms Game Plan for Progressives The Post-Midterms Game Plan for Progressives

It’s time for us to go big, challenge the limits of the debate and organize from the outside in.

Nov 10, 2010 / Feature / Katrina vanden Heuvel and Robert L. Borosage

The Life and Times of Bush the Clueless The Life and Times of Bush the Clueless

It takes a Harvard MBA to raze an economy. Perhaps that is too narrow a judgment given that a law degree from that institution or from Yale University seems to serve as well.

Nov 10, 2010 / Robert Scheer

The Breakdown: Will the Tea Party Stall the Economy?

The Breakdown: Will the Tea Party Stall the Economy? The Breakdown: Will the Tea Party Stall the Economy?

The Center for Economic and Policy Research's Dean Baker joins Christopher Hayes to answer the question: if Tea Party freshmen vote to not raise our debt ceiling as they vowed to d...

Nov 5, 2010 / Audio / Chris Hayes

City of Ruins

City of Ruins City of Ruins

Camden, New Jersey, stands as a warning of what huge pockets of America could turn into.

Nov 4, 2010 / Feature / Chris Hedges

The End of Free-Trade Globalization

The End of Free-Trade Globalization The End of Free-Trade Globalization

To restore economic stability, the US must rethink its approach to domestic manufacturing.

Nov 4, 2010 / Feature / William Greider

Economy, Not Health Care or Deficits, Drove Midterm Vote Economy, Not Health Care or Deficits, Drove Midterm Vote

This week’s Republican "tsunami" is textbook politics: voters united around, well, the same frustrations they had two years ago.

Nov 3, 2010 / The Notion / Kai Wright

Payback at the Polls

Payback at the Polls Payback at the Polls

Barack Obama deserved the rebuke he received at the polls for a failed economic policy that consisted of throwing trillions at Wall Street but getting nothing in return.

Nov 3, 2010 / Robert Scheer

Election Day Loss: ACORN Declares Bankruptcy Election Day Loss: ACORN Declares Bankruptcy

This is the final chapter in the long and winding right-wing witch hunt against an organization that stood strong for poor and working people.

Nov 2, 2010 / The Notion / Greg Kaufmann

Commentary: John Nichols on Citizens United Commentary: John Nichols on Citizens United

The Supreme Court's Citizens United decision is already having an effect on our democracy, and according to Nichols, "We may have our first fully corporate-defined election t...

Nov 1, 2010 / Video / The Nation on Grit TV

Washington State’s ‘Robin Hood’ Tax Washington State’s ‘Robin Hood’ Tax

Washington State's flagrantly unjust tax code is emblematic of a failed economic policy. Voters now have a chance to change it.

Oct 29, 2010 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel

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