From The Nation, William Greider on the end of New Deal Liberalism; and Eric Alterman on the new Congress and the coming class war. The most important questions for the economy may be: Why are most workers getting squeezed, and can we help them? More and more on Punching Out: One Year in a Closing Auto Plant by Paul Clemens. How close is America to fiscal crisis? America's leading corporations have found a way to thrive even if the American economy doesn't recover — this is very, very bad news. Undoubtedly, America is a middle class nation — but are there problems in the middle? If ubiquitous human computing pushes the US one more step toward banana republicdom, at least Jonathan Zittrain warned us. The introduction to Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink by Louis Hyman. Sputnikonomics: Should America be funding investments with more debt? It's not the job market: The three real reasons why Americans are more anxious than ever before. What's good for CEOs isn't good for America: Mitt Romney says the United States needs a president with private-sector street cred — here's why he's wrong. A book salon on The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report: Final Report of the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the United States. As the Right pushes privatization as a solution to the economic collapse, one organization is teaching communities how to defeat corporations. Wall Street’s Dead End: Felix Salmon on why the decline of public markets threatens American capitalism.
