Issue 283

Bernanke’s Bad Teachers

By Gerald Friedman

Fed chair Ben Bernanke got “hooked” on Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz while he was in grad school. Following their teachings on the Great Depression, he’s been starving the real economy to avoid interfering in free markets. Read more »
Youth of Color Resist Military Recruiting

By Anisha Desai and Maryam Roberts

As military recruiters target youth of color, youth organizers educate each other about risks and alternatives. Read more »
The Green Economy and Equal Opportunity

By Jeanette Wicks-Lim

Transforming our fossil-fuel economy to a clean-energy economy presents us with an opportunity to integrate male-dominated workplaces. Read more »
The Real Unemployment Rate Hits a 68-Year High

By John Miller

Although you have to dig into the statistics to know it, unemployment in the United States is now worse than at any time since the end of the Great Depression. Read more »

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What’s in a Name?

By John Miller

Part recession, part depression, today’s economic meltdown is very much a product of the large dose of economic repression that preceded it. | Order this issue or subscribe.
Land Reform in Nepal

By Ravi Bhandari and Alex Linghorn

Nepal leads the land reform movement into a hopeful future. | Order this issue or subscribe.
No Bailout for AIDS

By Mara Kardas-Nelson

Are cuts to health care a necessary part of “fiscal reform,” or the continuation of decades of neglect? | Order this issue or subscribe.