Joe Costello, AlterNet. April 15, 2008. The U.S. political and economic systems are not equipped to deal with the looming problems of the 21st century.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. March 18, 2008. Forbes' latest list of billionaires reveals a global concentration of wealth that has reached truly staggering proportions.
Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet. March 3, 2008. If Clinton had focused on women's roles in the economy, maybe we wouldn't be talking so much about the Senator from Illinois.
Gregory Clark, Princeton University Press. November 21, 2007. Is income from immigration the best hope for developing countries? Gregory Clark's book "A Farewell to Alms" explores the wealth, and the poverty, of nations.
Bill Piper, AlterNet. October 24, 2007. President Bush's plan for battling the war on drugs will only cost taxpayers dearly and make trafficking more profitable.
Ben Zipperer, John Schmitt, AlterNet. July 20, 2007. Crime may not pay for ordinary criminals, but companies avoid paying millions in wages and benefits by committing crimes against their workers.
Terrence McNally, Riane Eisler, AlterNet. June 27, 2007. Surely leaky pipes aren't more important than our children. Yet, in America, most plumbers make five times what caregivers do. Author Riane Eisler shows how our economic system, rooted in gender inequality, is failing us. An excerpt from her latest book follows.
Adam Howard, AlterNet: Video. June 18, 2007. SEIU union boss Andy Stern sits down with Bill Moyers and discusses why "America's growing apart" economically.
Heather Boushey, AlterNet. April 24, 2007. Today is Equal Pay Day -- an anti-holiday that marks how far into 2007 a woman must work to earn as much as a man earned last year.
Christopher Howard, Democracy: a Journal of Ideas. March 27, 2007. Call it phony universalism, Robin Hood in reverse, or socialism for the rich -- the United States spends almost as much helping the have-plenties as the have-nots.
Bill McKibben, Mother Jones. March 22, 2007. The formula of human well-being used to be simple: Make money, get happy. So why is the old axiom suddenly turning on us?
Paul Krugman, AlterNet. March 9, 2007. Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman explains in simple terms how the American economy went from having the world's most dynamic middle class to being on the verge of a rich-poor state in only 30 years.
Michael Sandlin, PopMatters. December 6, 2006. Journalist Michael Zielenziger dove into the despair of Japan's youth, including modern-day hermits and suicide groups, to write "Shutting Out the Sun" about the country's "lost generation."
Stan Goff, Truthdig. October 14, 2006. The precursors of fascism -- militarization of culture, vigilantism, masculine fear of female power, xenophobia and economic destabilization -- are ascendant in America today.
