Matt Taibbi and Yves Smith join Bill to discuss how the folly and corruption of both banks and government leaves deep wounds in our democracy.
Economy & Labor
The Obama campaign just released a campaign commercial talking about how Mitt Romney, while working at Bain Capital, oversaw the outsourcing of Americans jobs to China and Mexico.…
The Mother Jones editors talk about the conspiracy of cash that allows the rich to influence our most fundamental political freedoms.
In today’s On the News segment: Anti-austerity parties actually nabbed 52% of the vote in Sunday’s elections in Greece, Mitt Romney has come out in staunch opposition to…
Greek situation is still unresolved, 1.9 million American transportation workers are being held hostage by Republicans in the House, the poor are getting poorer, an estimated 50,000 people…
Thousands of people held a silent march in New York City on Sunday to protest the New York City Police Departmentu2019s controversial
Laura Flanders: A group of the workers who occupied the Republic Windows and Doors factory in 2008 have founded a worker-run cooperative.
When it comes to the vast, corrupting influence of money in politics, historian Thomas Frank has sounded the alarm loudly and often.
It is astounding how happy liberals are to work for the right by playing into conservative framing.