As governments in Europe and elsewhere adopt conservative austerity economic policies, we are assembling the best information and analysis of the effects from our own writers and from other progressive sources.
The Occupy Wall Street protests and the hundreds of Occupy actions they have spawned globally are a reaction to the failed conservative policies that have decimated the middle class, led to record income inequality and plunged millions into a quagmire of unemployment and debt. more »
Conservatives in Washington are working hard to turn the Solyndra solar power company bankruptcy into a broad attack on government support for green energy. Don't let them succeed. Our posts following this controversy give you the facts and the context you need to counter the scandal-mongering from the right.