Economy and Business
Your Dollars at Work — for the Rich
Conservative pundits and politicians routinely divide our U.S. economy into two totally distinct spheres. We have the noble private sector over here, they tell us, and the bumbling, bloated public sector over there. In reality, of course, we have just one economy,...
Student Debt Collectors
Fair Trade Is a Racial Justice Issue
The work of repairing the racial fissures that broke wide open in Ferguson, Missouri last year goes beyond the shooting death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown. It also goes beyond ending the practices highlighted in a Justice Department report that criticized...
Why Not Travel to Cuba?
If you're an American citizen, you've got one of the most valuable passports in the world. You can travel nearly anywhere, including countries Uncle Sam doesn't always get along with. If the local authorities let you get through customs, you can take an excursion to...
Free Trade at Last
Re-Defending the Alamo
Good news from the front: The defenders of the Alamo are standing strong, bravely battling the forces of tyranny! Wait… didn't the Battle of the Alamo take place in 1836? Yes. But history buffs, preservationists, and aficionados of the absurd will be glad to know that...
A Historic Victory for Net Neutrality
In the 10 years I’ve spent fighting for Internet freedom as a leader of Free Press, I’ve stood outside the Federal Communications Commission with a megaphone more times than I can count. I’ve led chants, waved signs, and criticized the agency for serving big companies...
The Student Debt Time Bomb
There's a generational time-bomb ticking — and the student debt crisis is the trip wire. Adults under 35 disproportionately bear the brunt of escalating inequality. America’s educated youth are graduating into an economy with stagnant wages and a torn safety net....
Health Care Under Fire
Look out, the Supreme Court's black-robed gang of far-right ideologues is rampaging again. The Supreme clan is firing potshots at the Affordable Care Act. Caught in the crossfire is the court's own integrity, along with the health of millions of innocent bystanders....
Banking on Tanking
In Murfreesboro, Tennessee, less than an hour's drive from my childhood home, two high school girls' basketball teams just made national headlines — by trying to lose to each other. The basketball gods must have cringed at the late-February matchup between Smyrna and...
