Democracy is Coming to Ohio: 1.3 Million Voters Force Referendum to Restore Labor Rights Democracy is Coming to Ohio: 1.3 Million Voters Force Referendum to Restore Labor Rights
Ohio labor and community groups seeking to overturn anti-labor legislation needed 231,000 signatures to force a referendum. They exceeded the goal —by more than one million. ...
Jun 29, 2011 / John Nichols
Greece in Crisis: Protest, Violence and Necessity Greece in Crisis: Protest, Violence and Necessity
With the passage of savage austerity measures, Greece qualifies for a 110 billion euro loan staving off imminent bankruptcy. But the long-term prognosis is far from positive. ...
Jun 29, 2011 / Maria Margaronis
Greece in Debt, Eurozone in Crisis Greece in Debt, Eurozone in Crisis
The country is facing a convulsion unlike anything since the fall of the dictatorship in 1974.
Jun 29, 2011 / Feature / Maria Margaronis
New York’s AG Takes on the Banks New York’s AG Takes on the Banks
Law enforcement agencies have not undertaken a thorough investigation of the banking crisis. But Eric Schneiderman is digging into it.
Jun 29, 2011 / Feature / William Greider
Erasing Labor History Erasing Labor History
Maine Governor Paul LePage's secret removal of a mural celebrating the state's labor history is just one in a long line of struggles over publicly-funded depictions of American wor...
Jun 29, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Rachel Heise Bolten
Jose Antonio Vargas and the DREAM Act Jose Antonio Vargas and the DREAM Act
After a career of blending into the crowd, journalist Jose Antonio Vargas has come out of hiding about his legal status and has vowed to only cover immigration issues.
Jun 28, 2011 / The Rachel Maddow Show
Those Reckless Republicans Those Reckless Republicans
The GOP is addled by extremist ideology and vengeful partisanship. As the debt-ceiling talks have demonstrated, the party makes the routine difficult and the necessary impossible.
Jun 28, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Could the Greek Economic Crisis Affect the US Economy? Could the Greek Economic Crisis Affect the US Economy?
Economic unrest in Greece has the potential to quickly spread through the entire European Union—and back to the US where the crisis originated on Wall Street.
Jun 28, 2011 / WGBH
Chris Hayes: Are Republicans Deliberately Tanking the Economy? Chris Hayes: Are Republicans Deliberately Tanking the Economy?
The GOP has disowned some of their favorite ideas—pay as you go budgets, cap and trade, raising the debt ceiling—once President Obama has endorsed them.
Jun 28, 2011 / The Rachel Maddow Show
Domestic Workers Need Rights–but Can Working Families Afford What They’ll Cost? Domestic Workers Need Rights–but Can Working Families Afford What They’ll Cost?
As domestic workers win state-level struggles for workplace protections, their employers—many of them middle-class families—get stuck with the bill, while the governmen...
Jun 28, 2011 / Bryce Covert