The Student Loan Bailout

Cole Robertson : Higher Education

The credit crunch is hitting students hard, but is government aid going to shareholders and CEOs instead of the borrowers who need it most?

Ideas for a New Era

: Barack Obama Administration

It's time for progressives to create coalitions and craft smart strategies that will push Obama and the new Congress to seize this moment.

Redoing Globalization

Sherle R. Schwenninger : Globalization

The economic crisis was caused by world trade imbalances just as much as by domestic problems.

A Green Stimulus for the People

Lisa Margonelli : Energy

Obama's environmental agenda can empower working people to take control of their energy use.

Beyond Rubinomics

Jeff Madrick : Wages & Hours

If we stimulate the economy and maintain high rates of growth, higher wages will create the savings required for investment.

A New New Deal?

Robert L. Borosage & Eric Lotke

Because conservatives refused to invest in our future, America is falling apart. Are we ready to expand the social contract?

No Bailout Oversight

American News Project

Despite the fact that Congress wrote more than one hundred pages about oversight in the bailout bill, they left a gaping hole.

Reading in an Age of Depression

Tom Engelhardt : Publishing Industry

An editor ponders the publishing industry meltdown--and the precarious future of books.

Dumping on Detroit

: Republican Party

GOP lawmakers are taking aim at autoworkers but letting overpaid CEOs off the hook.

'A Giant Ponzi Scheme'

Alexander Cockburn : White-Collar Crime

What separates Madoff's Ponzi scheme from the follies of the bailed-out banks, and how is Blagojevich's pay-to-play any different from standard political fundraising?

Bernard Madoff, Trust-Buster

Nicholas von Hoffman : White-Collar Crime

The $50 billion fraud is bad enough. But the disgraced trader has done even more serious damage. He's destroyed trust in our financial system.

Foreclosure Crisis Hits Home

American News Project

A glimpse at an increasingly common, but rarely documented, tragedy: someone being evicted from their home because of foreclosure.

Detroit's Auto-da-Fé

Nicholas von Hoffman : Labor

In the auto industry's latest trial by fire, Senate Republicans lit the match--and what's left of the economy could go down in flames.

How Hedge Funds and Private Equity Hurt Us

Nicholas von Hoffman

College endowments and workers bear the brunt of hedge fund managers' gambles and private equity takeovers.

Stimulus From Below

If the economy continues to deteriorate, the poor won't just always be with us--they'll be us.

Socialism for the Rich

Robert Scheer

Two presidents named Bush--aided by Bill Clinton--brought corporate socialism to America. Getting out of the mess they make requires much more than bailouts.

Radio Nation with Laura Flanders

Radio Nation

Can the people who broke the banking system fix it? And is there a way taxpayers could save Motor City while making it green?

The Right Stimulus

VideoNation

Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel discusses strategies for Obama to rebuild the public infrastructure and rethink the stimulus package so Wall Street isn't the only recipient.

Trading Partners

John Nichols : US Foreign Policy

Xavier Becerra, Obama's pick for US trade representative, could bring the change working people here and abroad can believe in.

Barack Obama, Feminist in Chief?

Katha Pollitt : Feminism & Women

Obama should make gender equality a keystone of his presidency--and the economic stimulus is a great place to start.

Shibboleth!

Alexander Cockburn : India

Why is it so hard for lawmakers, media and moguls to take moral responsibility?

Imagining a New New Deal

Radio Nation

Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself weigh in on the troubled economy.

State Banks Could Solve Financial Crisis

Nicholas von Hoffman : Banks & Banking

Forget big bailouts. The fed should finance non-profit state banks like the Bank of North Dakota--no profit means no reason for bankers to misbehave--to get real money to real people in the real economy.

Return of the Wall Street Hustlers

Robert Scheer : Banks & Banking

Obama, who promised change, has put the same old Wall Street hustlers on his economic team. Maybe he could send us an e-mail to explain.

Bonfire of the Vanities

William Greider

Timothy Geithner is responsible for much of the generous deal-making now underway with Wall Street. If Obama's not careful, he will be blamed.