Economy

Resistance to top-down education mandates is building.

Corporate control over medicine will make the horrors falsely attributed to socialized medicine look pale.

Do you think that student loan debt is only a problem for college students and perhaps their parents? Think again.

Paul Krugman: Austerity apologists claim that the pre-crisis peak isn't a realistic goal for Latvia.

Norman Solomon: We need to ask ourselves how the forces of corporate capitalism have gained so much power over government, to the extreme detriment of people who aren't rich.

A new American dream could rise from the mess left by globalization, off-shoring and austerity.

On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Republican National Committee Wants Even More Money in Politics, and More

You cannot lift up a nation's economy while slashing away at its consumers' pocketbooks.

Community time banks and local currencies can be an effective means to escape the corrupt extractive finance system.

The piecemeal fight against shrink-the-government policies is unworkable; we need comprehensive solutions.