Here’s Why We Can’t Rely on Shareholders to Fix CEO Pay Here’s Why We Can’t Rely on Shareholders to Fix CEO Pay
BlackRock, the top money manager in the world, claims to want to link performance with executive compensation. But its actions tell a different story.
May 4, 2016 / Sarah Anderson
Father Daniel Berrigan Sought to ‘Build a World Uncursed by War, Starvation, and Exploitation’ Father Daniel Berrigan Sought to ‘Build a World Uncursed by War, Starvation, and Exploitation’
The great champion of peace and justice, from Catonsville to Occupy, has died at age 94.
May 2, 2016 / John Nichols
Women Won’t Have Equality Until Dads Stay Home Women Won’t Have Equality Until Dads Stay Home
Here’s how it works.
Apr 20, 2016 / Bryce Covert
Why Sanders Skipped Clooney and Visited the Vatican Why Sanders Skipped Clooney and Visited the Vatican
Sanders’s hope for a moral economy is amplified at the Vatican.
Apr 19, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Radical Alliance of Black and Green Could Save the World A Radical Alliance of Black and Green Could Save the World
But first the two movements will have to rediscover their shared roots in a fundamental critique of an economy and a society that value things more than lives.
Apr 14, 2016 / Feature / James Gustave Speth and J. Phillip Thompson III
Asking for a Friend: I’m Putting My Kids Through College With an Evil Job—Should I Quit? Asking for a Friend: I’m Putting My Kids Through College With an Evil Job—Should I Quit?
And another questioner just can’t quit Amazon.
Apr 7, 2016 / Liza Featherstone
The Panama Papers Are Only the Beginning The Panama Papers Are Only the Beginning
Financial crimes and political conspiracies aren’t discrete events but the essence of neoliberalism.
Apr 5, 2016 / Greg Grandin
How Banks and Developers Collude to Get Rid of New York’s Affordable Housing How Banks and Developers Collude to Get Rid of New York’s Affordable Housing
Granting huge mortgages on rent-regulated buildings doesn’t make financial sense—unless lenders know buyers will kick out existing tenants.
Apr 5, 2016 / DW Gibson
The Panama Papers Expose the Hidden Wealth of the World’s Super-Rich The Panama Papers Expose the Hidden Wealth of the World’s Super-Rich
This massive leak will boost the global movement to recapture trillions of the hidden wealth of nations.
Apr 5, 2016 / Chuck Collins
How a $15 Minimum Wage Went From ‘Extreme’ to Enacted How a $15 Minimum Wage Went From ‘Extreme’ to Enacted
Across the country, activists and low-wage workers are showing that the changes we need will come if people organize and force them.
Apr 5, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel