The rise and fall of the professional-managerial class. Should we mourn the fate of the Professional Managerial Class or rejoice that there is one less smug, self-styled, elite to [...]

Journalist Bill Moyers and his blog “Group Think” asked writers, activists and reporters to draft parts of President Obama’s State of the Union 2013 speech. Here [...]

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month’s rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky[...]

In early 2009, I became extremely frustrated with the ongoing coverage of the recession in the mainstream media. The typical story was  about a formerly wealthy person now forced t[...]

Originally published in The Nation ‘Culture of Poverty’? New York City In “Rediscovering Poverty” [April 2], Barbara Ehrenreich quotes out of context a passage from The Other Ameri[...]

It’s been exactly 50 years since Americans, or at least the non-poor among them, “discovered” poverty, thanks to Michael Harrington’s engaging book The Othe[...]

Originally published on Tom Dispatch As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical [...]