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#austerity
  • Money & Politics
    Republicans Greet Covid Stimulus With Another Round of Inflation Fearmongering
    March 16, 2021
    | Bruce Bartlett

    Their cry-wolf act is well practiced but lacks credibility.

  • Inequality
    The One Percent Are Cheating Us Out of a Quarter-Trillion Dollars in Taxes Every Year
    July 10, 2020
    | David Sirota

    The problem here isn’t that we lack the knowledge to fix things — the problem is our political system.

  • Environment
    We Are Out of Time: We Need to Take a Leap
    December 11, 2015
    | Naomi Klein
    The climate crisis is a once-in-a-century chance to make our world more equitable
  • Activism
    Avi Lewis: ‘Grass-Roots Movements Are Changing Everything’
    October 29, 2015
    | Laura Flanders
    Journalist Laura Flanders speaks with Avi Lewis about his new film, "This Changes Everything," on how the climate movement is an opportunity to reinvent the global economy.
  • We Are All Greeks Now
    July 20, 2015
    | Chris Hedges
    Unfettered capitalism is designed to callously extract money from the most vulnerable and funnel it upward, writes Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges.
  • Morning Reads: Tea Party Victorious in GOP Civil War; Is Austerity Fueling the Rise of Eurofascism?
    May 21, 2014
    A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ...
  • With Fewer Inspections, Worker Safety Suffers
    January 8, 2014
    | Jessica Weisberg
    During the last three months of 2013, 15 miners died on the job. The uptick coincides with budget cuts that mean inspectors can afford to visit a workplace only every 99 years, on average.
  • Dean Baker on Getting Back to Full Employment
    December 27, 2013
    | Joshua Holland
    Economists Dean Baker and Jared Bernstein have written a new book about how to cure what ails the American economy.
  • CEOs Pushing Austerity Stumble Over Their Own Hypocrisy
    November 19, 2013
    | Sarah Anderson
    America’s most powerful CEOs are finding that their enormous wealth can also be a double-edged sword.
  • US Honors Veterans with Stirring Speeches and Painful Austerity
    November 11, 2013
    | Joshua Holland
    We have a rich tradition of lauding our veterans while turning our backs on their real-world problems -- and this Veteran's Day is no different.


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