The term 'debtors' prison' immediately conjures images of the mid-nineteenth century, when both men and women were locked in prisons until their families could afford to pay off their debt. For some,...
Art is in crisis – again. No, it's not a fight between alter-modernism and post-modernism or any other art world tussle. This time it's all about the money. Governments across Europe are...
“The worst is over,” said Minister of Finance Brian Lenihan on 9 December on the presentation of the 2010 Budget. It is actually truly astounding that the Irish Government believes that the worst...
The global economy seems to have climbed down off the ledge where it was perched for the last part of 2008 and beginning of 2009, teetering precariously on the verge of falling. Newspapers trumpet...
The self declared visionary Joe Coleman has been making waves in Irish religious circles for the past few weeks. He claims that that the Virgin Mary speaks to him on a regular basis, specifically...
I've seen a focus in the United States on mass political action in the past year like nothing I've seen in my lifetime. From the huge crowds at Barack Obama's campaign rallies and the unprecedented...
In his new book, Life, Inc., Douglas Rushkoff lays bare the history of corporations and how our society became shaped in their image. He theorizes that corporatism has such a hold on us that we tend...
Susan Feiner, PhD is a professor of economics and director of the Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Southern Maine. In addition to her academic work, she writes for Dollars & Sense,...
In his press conference Tuesday night, Barack Obama took pains to emphasize that comprehensive solutions were needed to the economic crisis, and that working families were suffering and needed help...
Zombie banks, voodoo economics—these are just some of the horror-movie terms being tossed around right now that lend an even spookier air to discussion of the economic crisis. But there's a scarier...