Julianne Malveaux, The Progressive. November 6, 2009. The same nation that created a Works Progress Administration in the 1930s should create another one in the 21st century.
Scott Thill, AlterNet. October 19, 2009. The Dow's at 10,000, and the bankers are reaping huge bonuses, but the economy in which the rest of us live is a disaster.
Barbara Ehrenreich, Tomdispatch.com. October 14, 2009. Much-discussed study claims that women are more depressed relative to men in recent decades, when it actually suggests that neither marriage nor children make women happy.
Walter Mosley, The Nation. September 18, 2009. We need to concentrate on our own happiness if we expect to make a difference in the careening technological and slovenly evolving social world of the 21st century.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. August 18, 2009. In 2007, the year before the Great Recession began, America's super rich partied — as never before. The evidence? We look at the year's freshly crunched income numbers.
Gerald Friedman, Dollars and Sense. July 29, 2009. Bernanke has conducted an economic policy as cruel as it has been ineffective. But the blame here lies squarely on the economics profession.
Danny Schechter, AlterNet. June 22, 2009. We're dealing with a political elite that is more Clintonesque than Rooseveltesque. Will meaningful change be possible?
Thom Hartmann, Smirking Chimp. April 16, 2009. The Geithner/Summers plan seems to hinge on reinflating the debt bubble. The outcome will be inflation, a more serious crash, or both.
Chris Hedges, Truthdig. April 7, 2009. If we don't stop the rapacious looting of the public treasury, we'll be left with trillions in debts and a robust police state.
Chuck Collins, Sam Pizzigati, AlterNet. March 23, 2009. What would FDR do if he were around to see AIG's bonus bozos spit in the face of the American taxpayer?
Paul Krugman, The New York Times. February 21, 2009. We're in the midst of a crisis that bears an eerie resemblance to the onset of the Depression. How and when will it all end?
Steve Fraser, Tomdispatch.com. February 11, 2009. FDR alone didn't pull America out of the Great Depression. The passion of ordinary citizens did. Can we do it again?
Thomas B. Edsall, Huffington Post AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. February 9, 2009. There is no guarantee that the stimulus legislation will pull the country -- or the global economy -- out of its downward spiral.
Heroesall, Unstuffed AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. February 8, 2009. Even now, with the world economy swirling down the S-bend, we hear some hardy souls claiming that 'the free market will fix it.'
Faiz Shakir, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. February 8, 2009. The current recession that the United States economy finds itself in is, by far, dramatically worse than the recessions of 1990-91 and 2001.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. February 6, 2009. Our readers respond to a recent story about the increase in suicides as more Americans face economic desperation.
