Economy

Rajan Menon | – – So effectively has the Beltway establishment captured the concept of national security that, for most of us, it automatically conjures up images of terrorist groups, cyber warriors, or “rogue states.” To ward off such foes, the United States maintains a historically unprecedented constellation of military bases abroad and, since 9/11, […]

Featured

Whitey on the Moon Again?

Juan Cole

The likelihood is that the government will pay for the lunar space station with borrowed money, making it enormously expensive

Inequality

Why the Supreme Court’s Gutting of Unions dooms US to Deeper Poverty, Inequality

Sam Pizzigati

The Supreme Court’s decision in Janus will leave the United States still more unequal.

Featured

The American March to Inequality: Why the UN Alston Report Alarms the Trump Plutocrats

Juan Cole

The US would require a social revolution to even resemble France or Germany

Donald Trump

G7 Views Trump’s US as Rogue State, as France Threatens a “G6” Memo

Juan Cole

Trump’s 17th century mercantilist trade policies are making the United States the skunk at the party at the G7 meet in Quebec on Friday

Inequality

The New American Aristocrats: Growing Inequality threatens Democracy (Atlantic Video)

The Atlantic Youtube Channel

The Atlantic writer Matthew Stewart argues 9.9% of the population “takes wealth out of productive activities and invests it in walls.”

Plutocracy

The Koch Brothers’ secret Coup on behalf of the Billionaire Class

Jim Hightower

The Koch brothers are oil magnates and billionaire GOP funders. They believe that their great wealth entitles them to rule over the many. For decades, they’ve been running a surreptitious assault on the rules that protect the majority of us from their abuse. From whacking our voting rights to busting unions, their intent is nothing […]

Inequality

Why has the GOP grown the Military-Industrial Complex but slashed Human Security?

H. Patricia Hynes

The US has the highest rate of maternal deaths of any industrial country & we are the “child poverty capital”

Banking

A coming Crash? Massive Bank deregulation and a Trump-appointed Fed: What could go Wrong?

contributors

Trump has appointed more members of the Fed board than any president since Woodrow Wilson