Finance

What Will Kill Neoliberalism?

What Will Kill Neoliberalism? What Will Kill Neoliberalism?

A roundtable on its fate.

May 4, 2017 / Feature / Joelle Gamble, Paul Mason, Bryce Covert, William Darity Jr., and Peter Barnes

People’s Climate March

What We Can Learn from Our ‘Radical’ Past What We Can Learn from Our ‘Radical’ Past

The clashes of the past teach us that we must stay committed to a cause bigger than any one person and be willing to fight for years to come.

May 2, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Protestors at the capitol building in Puerto Rico

Students Are Now Leading the Resistance to Austerity in Puerto Rico Students Are Now Leading the Resistance to Austerity in Puerto Rico

Some $40 billion of the island’s debt could be illegal—so why is the government shutting down the audit commission?

Apr 27, 2017 / StudentNation / Ed Morales

Coal power plant

The Policy Weapon Climate Activists Need The Policy Weapon Climate Activists Need

Government can save the climate from burning the same way it saved the economy from depression: Buy out the companies behind the crisis.

Apr 26, 2017 / Gar Alperovitz, Joe Guinan, and Thomas M. Hanna

Richard Cordray

The CFPB Just Sued a Crooked Mortgage Servicer, but Indicted Itself The CFPB Just Sued a Crooked Mortgage Servicer, but Indicted Itself

The lawsuit against Ocwen is welcome, but should have happened four years ago.

Apr 21, 2017 / David Dayen

Protest outside Chase

As the Rest of Us Pay Our Taxes, Demand That Wall Street Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share As the Rest of Us Pay Our Taxes, Demand That Wall Street Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share

The Trump administration wants to give the 1 percent even more of a break. 

Apr 18, 2017 / no-paywall / NationAction

Wall Street sign

Tell the Department of Labor to Side with Retirees Over Wall Street Tell the Department of Labor to Side with Retirees Over Wall Street

The Trump administration is coming after an Obama-era regulation that requires financial advisers to act in their clients’ best interests.

Apr 14, 2017 / no-paywall / NationAction

Wall Street Sign

This Loophole Will Let Hedge-Fund Managers Dodge $18 Billion in Taxes This Year This Loophole Will Let Hedge-Fund Managers Dodge $18 Billion in Taxes This Year

That money could be a whole lot better used.

Apr 12, 2017 / Video / Robert Greenwald and Charles Khan

Fifty Years Later, King’s Warning Still Resonates

Fifty Years Later, King’s Warning Still Resonates Fifty Years Later, King’s Warning Still Resonates

It is time to revive a peace and justice movement calling for the United States to stop its endless wars and turn its resources and attention to rebuilding our own country.

Apr 4, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

President Donald Trump

One of Trump’s Biggest Donors Thinks Cats Have More Value Than Welfare Recipients One of Trump’s Biggest Donors Thinks Cats Have More Value Than Welfare Recipients

An interview with New Yorker writer Jane Mayer on her research into the darkest reaches of right-wing political funding.

Mar 24, 2017 / Audio / Jon Wiener

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