Spreading the Wealth
Mark Engler : U.S. Economy
Amid the ruins of a new gilded age, the devalued and depressed American people are ready to demand more.
2008
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Human Ecology
Mike Davis : Environment
As human actions change the planet in irreversable ways, will human bonds suffer irreversable damage, too?
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Extreme Inequality
Daniel Brook : Economic Policy
A look at the gap between rich and poor via two books: David Cay Johnson's Free Lunch and Michael J. Thompson's The Politics of Inequality.
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Homeless in New Orleans
Lizzy Ratner : Social & Economic Rights
The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has turned New Orleans into a tragic Tale of Two Cities.
2007
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Global Warming: The Rich Opt Out
Nicholas von Hoffman : Global Warming & Climate Change
Conservation, like taxes, is for little people. When you're rich you can waste all the water you want.
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Deal Breakers
Kim Phillips-Fein : Economic Policy
Two new books seek to galvanize progressives at a key political moment: Paul Krugman's The Conscience of a Liberal and Jonathan Chait's The Big Con.
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Luxury Grub
Barbara Ehrenreich : Food & Nutrition
What's so great about designer chocolate if it's infested with cockroach droppings? As the economic widens, rich and poor still occupy the same food chain.
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Give Us This Day Our Daily Debt
Nicholas von Hoffman : U.S. Economy
As the superrich get richer, the rest of us sink deeper into debt. But when American consumers can no longer consume, our whole system falls apart.
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Travails of the Super-Rich
Barbara Ehrenreich : Wages & Hours
Just in time for Labor Day, a new report on the gap between the boss and the average worker is a gleefully malicious attack on the richest CEOs.
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The Bloatocrats
The New York Times turns a spotlight on the super-rich who veil their affluence in assertions of the good that they do. It makes Gordon Gekko's naked greed look good.
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The Trouble With the Super-Rich
A bloated overclass can drag down a society as surely as a swelling underclass.
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CEOs vs. Slaves
Barbara Ehrenreich : Wages & Hours
New chasms are opening in the unequal terrain of American society: To the ranks of exploited domestics and factory workers, consider the emerging proletariat of adjunct faculty and temporary attorneys.
2006
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Sweepstakes of Greed, 2006
It's getting close to New Year's and time for annual awards. And in the 2006 Sweepstakes of Greed, the winners are...
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Show Me the Money
A man can be rich, but only a nation can be wealthy. And if anyone suffers from poverty, our whole country bears the shame.
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Snapshot of a Plutocracy
Every person on this year's Forbes 400 list of America's richest people is a billionaire, who collectively possess about $1.25 trillion. Imagine how many Congressmen that will buy.
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Undone by Neoliberalism
Adolph Reed Jr. : Economic Policy
Before the storm, neoliberalism shaped the social and economic inequities of New Orleans; after Hurricane Katrina, it worsened them by making government the tool of corporations and investors.
2005
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Running on Fumes
Unless the federal government does something now, rising gas prices have the potential to break the blue-collar backbone of many American towns.
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Taking the Offensive on Wealth
Gar Alperovitz : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
Strategies that unite the vast majority against a tiny elite are sure to win.
2004
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Rust & Rage in the Heartland
Dale Maharidge : Conservatives & The American Right
Three years after 9/11.
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A Stealth Tax on Wages
Eric Laursen : George W. Bush Administration
The White House is trying to radically restructure the federal government's revenue-raising activities.
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Take Back Values
David Callahan : Corporate Responsibility & Accountability
Democrats need to offer a compelling vision of a morally based social contract.
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA. (13mb mp3)
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