We’re All Bernie Madoff: Welcome to the Ponzi Nation
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. 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...
View ArticleWhy Won’t the GOP Criticize BP?
First published at MotherJones.com. Elected Democrats haven’t been shy about slamming BP for the horrific oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Last month, Senate majority leader Harry Reid emotionally...
View ArticleBank Lobby Blitz Targets Elizabeth Warren
Here’s my latest from MotherJones.com, on the bank lobbying quietly underway to block Elizabeth Warren, the consumer advocate and bailout watchdog, from leading the new Bureau of Consumer Financial...
View ArticleFannie and Freddie’s Foreclosure Barons
My latest investigative piece at MotherJones.com. A few days after this story came, the Florida Attorney General’s Economic Crime division opened an investigation to the David Stern law firm. Read more...
View ArticleAuto Bailouts: A Success Story?
Flickr/illuminea (Creative Commons) What began as the ugliest of government bailouts—the rescue of General Motors, Chrysler, and the financing company GMAC/Ally—is now shaping up to be one of the...
View ArticleThe GOP’s Campaign Finance “Sneak Attack”
Originally published at MotherJones.com On Wednesday, House Republicans plan to rush to the floor a bill that would eliminate the federal government’s presidential financing system—in the process,...
View ArticleInside Big Labor’s Epic Battle in Wisconsin
Originally published at MotherJones.com. They piled off of buses and out of cars, filling the streets of Madison, Wisconsin, and surrounding the towering Capitol. Thousands crowded inside the...
View ArticleTomDispatch: Union-Busting or Republican-Busting in Wisconsin?
One hundred years ago, 146 people, mostly young immigrant women, died in a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in downtown New York City, a building lacking sprinkler systems, fire walls, or...
View ArticleThe Right-Wing Network Behind the War on Unions
Inspired by Ronald Reagan and funded by the right's richest donors, a web of free-market think tanks has fueled the nationwide attack on workers' rights.
View ArticleMissing from Occupy Wall Street: Barack Obama
This story originally appeared at MotherJones.com. At Zuccotti Park, the shoebox-shaped spit of land in lower Manhattan that for three weeks Occupy Wall Street has called home, there are signs...
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