Natalia Thompson : Barack Obama Administration
This essay, a finalist in The Nation's Student Writing Contest, argues that the most important prerequisite for being a good president cannot be found in the marble hallways of the nation's elite institutions.
Laine Alison Zalac : Youth, Education, & Children
This essay, the high school winner of The Nation's Student Writing Contest, argues that until inequities in education are eliminated, a permanent underclass will continue to exist.
Mark Engler : U.S. Economy
Amid the ruins of a new gilded age, the devalued and depressed American people are ready to demand more.
Mike Davis : Environment
As human actions change the planet in irreversable ways, will human bonds suffer irreversable damage, too?
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.
Lizzy Ratner : Social & Economic Rights
The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has turned New Orleans into a tragic Tale of Two Cities.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A bloated overclass can drag down a society as surely as a swelling underclass.
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.
It's getting close to New Year's and time for annual awards. And in the 2006 Sweepstakes of Greed, the winners are...
A man can be rich, but only a nation can be wealthy. And if anyone suffers from poverty, our whole country bears the shame.
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.
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.
Unless the federal government does something now, rising gas prices have the potential to break the blue-collar backbone of many American towns.
Gar Alperovitz : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
Strategies that unite the vast majority against a tiny elite are sure to win.
Dale Maharidge : Conservatives & The American Right
Three years after 9/11.
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