Economics

Bangladesh garment workers protest

Stories the Fashion Media Won’t Tell Stories the Fashion Media Won’t Tell

Why are fashion outlets ignoring Bangladeshi garment-worker protests?

Jan 18, 2019 / Minh-Ha T. Pham

Ford CEO Mark Fields

When Corporations Pay CEOs Way More Than Employees, Make Them Pay! When Corporations Pay CEOs Way More Than Employees, Make Them Pay!

Portland’s groundbreaking strategy for curbing executive compensation should be a model for the rest of the country.

Jan 17, 2019 / Sarah Anderson and Sam Pizzigati

Prime Minister Theresa Ma

Why No Deal Is the Real Deal: Brexit and the Politics of the Interregnum Why No Deal Is the Real Deal: Brexit and the Politics of the Interregnum

Leaving the European Union is the necessary goal of the left in Britain.

Jan 17, 2019 / Maurice Glasman

These Hungarian Students Are Fighting for Their Country’s Democracy

These Hungarian Students Are Fighting for Their Country’s Democracy These Hungarian Students Are Fighting for Their Country’s Democracy

Though Orbán sought to stamp out dissent and free thought in Hungary, he only made us call out to one another in solidarity.

Jan 16, 2019 / StudentNation / Rosa Schwartzburg

Greece Wildfires

To Those Who Think We Can Reform Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis To Those Who Think We Can Reform Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis

Our only hope is to stop exploiting the earth—and its people.

Jan 15, 2019 / Ben Ehrenreich

Yellow Vest protesters

Forgotten France Rises Up Forgotten France Rises Up

France’s Yellow Vests took just one month to challenge policies on taxation, education, transport, and environment—and make the Macron government back down

Jan 15, 2019 / Serge Halimi

Sherrod Brown Re-election

Sherrod Brown Is the Real Deal—Could He Win It All in 2020? Sherrod Brown Is the Real Deal—Could He Win It All in 2020?

What’s the Ohio senator’s greatest appeal among grassroots Democrats? Authenticity, with a long track record of defending workers and fighting Wall Street and corporate power.

Jan 11, 2019 / William Greider

FDR speech 1944

America Needs Economic Rights. Now Is the Time to Push for Them. America Needs Economic Rights. Now Is the Time to Push for Them.

Seventy-five years ago, FDR made a radical call for justice. Democrats have a chance to deliver where he fell short.

Jan 11, 2019 / Andrea Flynn and Susan R. Holmberg

The Trump Immigration-Law Change That Could Increase Child Poverty by 5 Percent in New York City

The Trump Immigration-Law Change That Could Increase Child Poverty by 5 Percent in New York City The Trump Immigration-Law Change That Could Increase Child Poverty by 5 Percent in New York City

The administration’s proposed changes to the “public charge” rule are already pushing immigrants into the shadows.

Jan 11, 2019 / Michelle Chen

Yellow Vest Graffiti

The Populism Problem at the ‘Times’ The Populism Problem at the ‘Times’

The paper of record needs to remember that it’s not exclusively a right-wing phenomenon.

Jan 9, 2019 / Michael Massing

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