Today's populist rage could regenerate America -- if Obama handles it right.
By Gary Kamiya Mar 24, 2009
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If Obama gives us universal healthcare, will we become better people?
By Andrew Leonard
July 20, 2009
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The swine flu scare was just the latest example of why an economic theory that mixes subsidization, consolidation and deregulation endangers us all.
By David Sirota
May 9, 2009
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A new poll shows that only a small majority of people think capitalism is better than socialism.
By Alex Koppelman
April 9, 2009
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The media says Americans have the economic blues. But we're meeting these down times the way we always have: Not with resignation but with grit, compassion and humor.
By Richard Rodriguez
February 13, 2009
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Social justice, wealth redistribution, a new morality for Wall Street -- the pontiff throws down on capitalism
By Andrew Leonard
July 8, 2009
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The Reagan/Thatcher model of unregulated markets now looks "as outdated as revolutionary socialism" declares the Financial Times' Martin Wolf. Them's fighting words!
By Andrew Leonard
March 11, 2009
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What bailout? The Dow drops 740 as a financial panic sweeps the world.
By Andrew Leonard
October 6, 2008
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A reflection on current affairs
By Andrew Leonard
September 18, 2008
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Before it was bought by Belgium's InBev, Budweiser trampled local breweries across this land. Who's crying in their (piss) beer now?
By Edward McClelland
July 17, 2008
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Eclipsed by the ascendancy of Milton Friedman, laissez-faire's most determined antagonist is back in fashion.
By Andrew Leonard
March 27, 2008
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A "lost decade" for stocks? The "high water mark" of financial deregulation? Who pulled the trigger?
By Andrew Leonard
March 26, 2008
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The presidential candidate just can't resist dragging the holiest Republican values through the mud
By Andrew Leonard
February 5, 2008
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I love being a grad student stripper but I'm worried about fallout from family and professors.
By Cary Tennis
February 4, 2008
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Call it Capitalism 2.0: Microsoft's founder and Wal-Mart's CEO say there's got to be a better way.
By Andrew Leonard
January 24, 2008
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"Luther and Suleyman": An economist feeds the Ottoman Empire into his calculator and "proves" a historical hypothesis.
By Andrew Leonard
July 2, 2007
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Former Sandinista revolutionary Ortega is back on top in Nicaragua. Will his alliance with Venezuela -- complete with subsidized oil -- be a model for the rest of Central America?
By Lydia Chávez
February 8, 2007
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I could jump ship, but it doesn't quite feel right.
By Cary Tennis
January 16, 2007
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McDonald's fries on Park Place? The horror?
By Andrew Leonard
September 12, 2006
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His biographer recalls how the late economist warned JFK about Vietnam -- and faulted conservative policies for worsening inequality in America.
By Richard Parker
May 1, 2006
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Is it already time for the way new economy? Chapter 1 of a new science fiction novella by Cory Doctorow.
By Cory Doctorow
September 12, 2005
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Is this the "new golden age of global capitalism"? The Economist thinks so -- and ignores the facts.
By James K. Galbraith
March 22, 2004
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Capitalism's crown jewel: The Iraq contract.
By Arianna Huffington
April 23, 2003
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Did employee stock ownership drive the airline into bankruptcy?
By Farhad Manjoo
December 12, 2002
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Young anarchists with guts of steel raid dumpsters for edible "trash." The idea? Divert waste to end wastefulness.
By Laurie Essig
June 10, 2002
Uprising on Main Street
How to upgrade human values
Bacon-flavored capitalism
Americans welcome our new socialist overlords
Depressed? No! We're angry
The rise and fall of an American beer
I'm a nude dancer trying to finish my Ph.D.
Daniel Ortega's new best friend: Hugo Chavez
The Galbraith I knew
Themepunks
United's ESOP fable
Fine diving
Broadsheet
Glenn Greenwald