Pope Francis: Government Has a Role in Addressing Inequality and Injustice

A new project by NETWORK, the Catholic social justice lobby, invites a reconsideration of a duty to the poor.

John Nichols

Vermont Votes for Public Banking

“[It] doesn’t make any sense for us to be sending Vermont’s hard-earned tax dollars to some bank on Wall Street which couldn’t care less about Vermont or Vermonters.”

John Nichols

A Glimpse Into the Zapatista Movement, Two Decades Later

Zapatista strongholds endure in the state of Chiapas, managing their own schools, banks, hospitals, arts collectives and system of government.

Laura Gottesdiener

The Zapatistas at Twenty

There are two tests of social change movements: endurance and regeneration. After two decades, Mexico's Zapatista movement can now say it passed both.

Laura Carlsen and Foreign Policy In Focus

How to Democratize the US Economy

A long-term plan to renovate the American dream begins at the local level and scales up.

Gar Alperovitz

The Young, Low-Wage, Temporary Disaster Relief Army

Is AmeriCorps a lifeline for debt-burdened young Americans—or one more example of relentless government cost-cutting?

Max Rivlin-Nadler

Elizabeth Warren Tackles Wall Street

The reform-minded senator talks tough, and she knows where the bodies are buried.

William Greider

This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Abundance and the Basic Income Guarantee

Katrina vanden Heuvel

The Price: Sex, Death and Dhaka

Someone somewhere must die for the pleasure someone somewhere else takes in a $4.95 bikini top.

JoAnn Wypijewski

How Wall Street Defanged Dodd-Frank

Battalions of regulatory lawyers burrowed deep in the federal bureaucracy to foil reform.

Gary Rivlin