Socializing Debt in Sports, While Privatizing Profit Socializing Debt in Sports, While Privatizing Profit
It's not about the $6 hot dogs, the $9 beers or the tickets you have to get a loan for. It's about insane amount of tax dollars and corporate welfare that goes into American sports...
Aug 19, 2010 / Video / Press Room
AFL Takes On Foreclosures and Payday Lending AFL Takes On Foreclosures and Payday Lending
An interview with AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker on Big Banks and a new approach to prevent home foreclosure.
Aug 19, 2010 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Voters Can Shed Daylight on Corporate Spending Voters Can Shed Daylight on Corporate Spending
Goldman Sachs has agreed not to take advantage of Citizens United to spend corporate money in elections. Will other companies follow suit?
Aug 18, 2010 / Public Advocate Bill de Blasio
It’s About Main Street, Not the Mosque It’s About Main Street, Not the Mosque
The party with solutions to the country's economic woes will be the winners come November.
Aug 17, 2010 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Happy 75th Birthday, Social Security Happy 75th Birthday, Social Security
On the 75th anniversary of Social Security, those who would axe benefits are spreading myths designed to make you think there's a looming crisis. It's simply just not true.
Aug 13, 2010 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
No Relief in Sight No Relief in Sight
The economy's long downturn has left us with a nation of broken roads, shuttered clinics and scrapped school programs. Why are we gutting our basic infrastructure when we need it t...
Aug 12, 2010 / Editorial / The Editors
The Gulf at the Gas Station The Gulf at the Gas Station
Can we calculate the true cost of our dependence on oil?
Aug 12, 2010 / Mark Engler
Rotten Apples, Core Values Rotten Apples, Core Values
Profits are booming, but Mott's is demanding benefit cuts. Workers are fighting back.
Rising to the Task of Slowing Down Rising to the Task of Slowing Down
If we are to produce not only our best work, but also our best lives, we need to think hard about developing a different attitude toward time.
Aug 11, 2010 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Rubin Con Goes On The Rubin Con Goes On
The corruptions of journalism were on full display when CNN’s Fareed Zakaria turned to Robert Rubin this past Sunday for advice on how to fix the financial crisis.
Aug 11, 2010 / Robert Scheer