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Our US columnist Mark Engler is riled by the shamelessness of the financial élite.

Outspoken scholar Norman Finkelstein speaks to Hazel Healy about his latest book Knowing Too Much.

Many Americans are in denial about their dependence on social spending, says Mark Engler.

Unfulfilled promises may come back to haunt Obama this election year, says Mark Engler.

Around 2.3 million US citizens are behind bars - a number that dwarfs any other country, reports Mark Engler.

As Obama ushers in a new debit-limit bill, Mark Engler explains how the argument ‘We’re broke’ is used to justify the demolition of social safety nets.

Politicians in the US and Australia play the anti-immigration card.

There are no palm trees in Wisconsin – but there’s a red-faced newsreader at Fox News.

Are the rich winning the class war?

Hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking’ – Big Oil’s newest way to extract natural gas from an exhausted planet – comes with a terrible environmental price tag. Joyce Nelson digs deeper.

Beware Americans talking ‘stability’, warns Noam Chomsky.

Marc Engler has a taboo solution to the US’s economic woes.

Overcoming empire is not a spectator sport.

Mark Engler's regular column from the magazine

Moving on up - the big money takeover of America

The Baptist minister and US civil rights activist talks to Rowenna Davis about regrets, rejoicing and racism.

Okinawa currently hosts 75 per cent of US military facilities in Japan

Adam Ma’anit peers beyond the smoke and mirrors at BP’s ‘clean up’ of the Gulf of Mexico.

Our new columnist Mark Engler considers the impact of the US midterm elections.

Big coal equals big profits, so Don Blankenship doesn’t worry too much about pollution.