by Leo Gerard | May 19, 2009 | Blog
The economic structure of Jim Henson's cartoon realm called Fraggle Rock reflects our own. In one HBO episode, the industrious, hard-hatted Doozers prepare to leave the rock, which would have quickly left the Fraggles starving. Somehow, politicians and powerbrokers in...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 19, 2009 | Blog
A bill that will clamp down on some of the most egregious practices of credit card companies is rushing toward final passage in the Senate, and the industry—and its conservative buddies—are gearing up for retaliation. For example, one conservative group has already...
by Roger Hickey | May 18, 2009 | Blog, Making it in America
I pledge that soon I will buy a new, fuel-efficient car—built in America by United Auto Workers members. I'm asking YOU to take this pledge with me and get others to do so, too. If enough Americans take this pledge—and pass it on—we can revive our country's auto and...
by Sam Pizzigati | May 17, 2009 | Blog
Citi analysts spent two years obsessing over luxury consumption by the rich. Last week, the ultimate symbol of that consumption — the fine art bubble — finally popped. Back a year ago, not long after Bear Stearns bit the Wall Street dust, buyers and sellers at New...
by Terrance Heath | May 15, 2009 | Blog
Coming to terms with race and resolving racial disparity in America feels like an insurmountable, unfinished task, because it is unfinished. The work was started and abandoned, started and abandoned many times by generations before us. But it’s only...
by Tula Connell | May 15, 2009 | Blog
Opponents of the Employee Free Choice Act, desperate in their
