A TomDispatch Interview With Jonathan Schell
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When Jonathan Schell’s The Unconquerable World, a meditation on the history and power of nonviolent action, was published in 2003, the timing could not have been worse. Americans were at war -- and success was...
Posted November 21, 2011 | 11/21/11 09:49 AM ET
The Unsung Victors in the Hottest Election of 2011
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No headlines announced it. No TV pundits called it. But on the evening of November 8th, Occupy Wall Street, the populist uprising built on economic justice and corruption-free...
Posted October 6, 2011 | 10/06/11 05:55 PM ET
Economic Numbers to Die For
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Food pantries picked over. Incomes drying up. Shelters bursting with the homeless. Job seekers spilling out the doors of employment centers. College grads moving back in with their parents. The angry...
Posted August 23, 2011 | 08/23/11 11:43 AM ET
What Comes Next for Wisconsin's Fledgling Uprising
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Stephanie Haw needed a good cry.
On the night of August 9th, the rowdy crowd inside Hawk's bar in downtown Madison grew ever quieter as the election results trickled in. Earlier that day, with...
Posted July 5, 2011 | 07/05/11 02:51 PM ET
How Racism, Global Economics, and the New Jim Crow Fuel Black America's Crippling Jobs Crisis
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Like the country it governs, Washington is a city of extremes. In a car, you can zip in bare moments from northwest District of Columbia, its...
Posted May 9, 2011 | 05/09/11 04:22 PM ET
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Think of it as a parable for these grim economic times. On April 19th, McDonald's launched its first-ever national hiring day, signing up 62,000 new workers at stores throughout the country. For some context, that's more jobs created by one company in a single day...
Posted March 31, 2011 | 03/31/11 12:42 PM ET
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It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends.
-- Joan Didion
In the February weeks I spent in snowy Madison, Wisconsin, that line of Didion's, the opening of her 1967 essay "Goodbye to All That," ricocheted through...
Posted February 28, 2011 | 02/28/11 12:25 PM ET
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The call reportedly arrived from Cairo. Pizza for the protesters, the voice said. It was Saturday, February 19, and by then Ian's Pizza on State Street in Madison, Wisconsin, was overwhelmed. One employee had been assigned the sole task of answering the phone and taking...
Posted December 2, 2010 | 12/02/10 03:25 PM ET
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There is a war underway. I'm not talking about Washington’s bloody misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq, but a war within our own borders. It’s a war fought on the airwaves, on television and radio and over the internet, a war of words and images, of...
Posted October 5, 2010 | 10/05/10 11:22 AM ET
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[Research support for this story was provided by the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute.]
Sometime in early June -- he's not exactly sure which day -- Rick Rembold joined history. That he doesn't remember comes as little surprise: Who wants their name etched into the...
Posted March 14, 2010 | 03/14/10 04:06 PM ET
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Every great American boom and bust makes and breaks its share of crooks. The past decade -- call it the Ponzi Era -- has been no different, except for the gargantuan scale of white-collar crime. A vast wave of financial fraud swelled in the first...
Posted November 30, 2009 | 11/30/09 10:43 AM ET
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At the end of a week in mid-October when the Dow Jones soared past 10,000, Goldman Sachs recorded “just another fantastic quarter” with a $3.2 billion quarterly profit, JPMorgan Chase raked in a cool $3.6 billion, and a New York Times
Posted September 15, 2009 | 09/15/09 06:24 PM ET
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At the end of this summer of discontent, of death panels and unplugging poor Grandma, of birthers and astroturfers and rifle-toting picketers, the halcyon early days of the Obama administration feel increasingly like hazy, gilt-edged memories. The president's sprawling legislative...
Posted May 26, 2009 | 05/26/09 12:44 PM ET
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How the Financial Bailout Scams Taxpayers, Subsidizes Wall Street, and Props Up Our Broken Financial System
On October 3rd, as the spreading economic meltdown threatened to topple financial behemoths like American International Group (AIG) and Bank of America and plunged global markets...
Posted April 2, 2009 | 04/02/09 12:29 PM ET
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A few months ago, Bobby Stapleton, a 21-year-old student at the University of Michigan, received a phone call from his younger brother. The good news came first: a senior in high school, he, too, had been accepted by the university, the fourth sibling in...
Posted March 1, 2012 | 03/01/12 10:51 AM ET