Why the Mad Rush to the '08 Elections?
We've already been swamped by 2008 presidential madness -- by Hillary, by Obama(mania), by Fox News smears and Republican pandering to religious extremists -- which suggests that a turning-point...
View ArticleThe Perfect Storm of Campaign 2008
War, economic collapse, and the political implosion of the Republican Party will make 2008 a year to remember.
View ArticleIn the Last Gilded Age, People Stood Up to Greed -- Why Aren’t We?
Why don't Americans rise up against the kleptocracy like they did in the late nineteenth century?
View ArticleIs the 'Good Life' as America Knows It Over?
The relationship between Washington and Wall Street has changed fundamentally, and as a result, the road ahead is dark and unknown.
View ArticleTo End This Financial Crisis, Americans Are Going to Have to Get Angry
FDR alone didn't pull America out of the Great Depression. The passion of ordinary citizens did. Can we do it again?
View ArticleIs Obama Trying to Dismantle Roosevelt's New Deal?
FDR, he is not. Obama and his team read the lesson of humiliating defeat in Massachusetts and conservative hostility as an advisory to move further to the right.
View ArticleThe Strange History of the Tea Party Crowd & America's Right Wing Know-Nothings
Today’s Tea Party movement is a bewildering network of crosscutting political emotions, ideas, and institutions -- just like its 18th century predecessors.
View ArticleMassive Unemployment: Proof That Global Capitalism Doesn't Work
We may be witnessing the birth of a new permanent class of the marginalized.
View ArticleAmerica Returns to Our Proud History of Hating -- and Fighting -- Wall Street
Only weeks ago, an eerie unprotesting silence still blanketed the country. That's all over now.
View ArticleGetting Paid 93 Cents a Day in America? Corporations Bring Back the 19th Century
Nearly a million prisoners are working in call centers, working in slaughterhouses, or manufacturing textiles while getting paid somewhere between 93 cents and $4.73.
View ArticleFinancial Firms Have Been Hollowing Out America for Decades -- Now We're on...
40 years of austerity politics have hollowed out the heartland, as financial wizards of Wall Street gobbled up ever more of the nation's resources.
View ArticleAmerica Is Turning Into One Big Prison for People in Debt
From debtor’s prison to debtor nation.
View ArticleFrom the San Francisco Earthquake to Superstorm Sandy, How Disaster...
Doesn't matter if the disaster is man-made or natural, wealth always triumphs.
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How Billionaires Like the Koch Brothers, Sheldon Adelson and Sam Walton Are...
Democracy for sale is no democracy at all.To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here.George Baer was a railroad and coal mining...
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How the Economy Favored the 1 Percent Over 100 Years Ago
The plutocracy of the Gilded Age isn't that different from today's huge gulf between the rich and poor.To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from...
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