In a political earthquake last year, the populist and racist Reform Party took 4.1 million votes, coming third, against a backdrop of collapsing living standards and accelerating impoverishment.
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Boycott, Divest and Sanction Corporations That Feed On Prisons
Former inmates have joined human rights advocates to organize nationwide demonstrations targeting everything from private phone-and-money-transfer companies to prison food vendors.
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Playing 1% Rules: Why the Trans-Pacific Partnership Won't Help Workers Or Consumers
The TPP is a classic expression of the way the rules are fixed to benefit the few and not the many: It has been negotiated in secret, and corporations and banks help shape it.
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The Podemos Revolution: How A Small Group Of Radical Academics Changed European Politics
Just 15 months after it was founded, Podemos now leads the polls in Spain – now can the grassroots party actually win power and, along with Greece, help transform the continent?
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Student Debt Cancellation: The Hidden Tax Trap That Will Cripple America's Families
Under current federal tax rules, if student debts are cancelled, millions of families will get blindsided by a staggering tax bill on those debts – making it "out of the frying pan, into the fire" for cash-strapped families.
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U.S. Incomes Fell Last Year - Except for the Rich, Of Course
In fresh data that adds fire to a growing debate over income inequality, the Labor Department says Americans on average saw income decline for the second straight year in the 12 months to June 2014.
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How America Became An Oligarchy
If governments are recalling their sovereign powers, they might start with the power to create money, which was usurped by private interests while the people were asleep at the wheel.
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Can the Surveillance State Repeal Act Shift the Course on Spying?
Eager to reset the debate and anchor it in long overdue transparency, a bipartisan block of representatives have introduced the proposal to restore civil liberties, privacy and freedom of thought.
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The Quixotic Rise of Russell Brand
When Fox News hosts decided to attack Russell Brand's "Newsnight" appearance, they all but released the genie.
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Fixed Fortunes: Biggest Corporate Political Interests Spent Billions, and Got Trillions In Return
Between 2007 and 2012, 200 of America’s most politically active corporations spent a combined $5.8 billion on federal lobbying and campaign contributions – and were paid back $4.4 trillion in federal business and support.
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Introducing The Next System Project
It's time to face the depth of the systemic crisis – to explore genuine alternatives and new models, and to debate what it will take to move our country to a very different place.
