Austerity

Momentous change almost always begins with the courage of people taking back their own lives against the odds. Just do it, says John Pilger.

Frank Hammer: Detroit's road to ruin was paved by an ill-conceived economic model.

Austerity deepens in Chicago this year with the firing of more than 3,000 total school staff after closing 50 schools.

Henry Giroux: A war-like mentality makes it difficult to reclaim the language of social responsibility and civic engagement.

As more states push to re-evaluate their budgets, a movement aiming to shift funding from jails to schools and other support services is gaining steam nationwide.

They don't know who they are or what they're fighting for nor whom or what they are fighting against.

Alejandro Reuss sits down with Robert Pollin to discuss the role economists have played in abetting austerity.

Austerity has been intellectually discredited in recent months. But conservative spending cuts still dominate policy.

Austerity policies continue to deliver pain to populations the world over, but shifts toward democratic self-direction deliver much-needed hope.

Tough austerity measures imposed by the EU without any consideration for the damage such policies inflict on human lives and the social fabric of societies in general have generated …