If the labor movement is going to defeat Donald Trump and other anti-worker politicians, Painters union president Jimmy Williams Jr writes, it will need a wellspring of organized workers.
A government-granted monopoly has allowed a pharmacy benefit manager owned by Cigna to overbill the Defense Department for years, in what amounts to an enormous cash transfer from American taxpayers ...
Long before Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet planners and economists engaged in wide-ranging debates about economic reform. But they never seriously considered the option of a genuinely participatory, ...
Jacobin sat down with the Economist’s Mike Bird to talk about his new book The Land Trap, on why land retains its centrality in our economy even into the digital age — and how land ownership cements ...
Mike Bird is Wall Street editor at the Economist and cohost of the Money Talk podcast. His most recent book is The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset.
The Trump administration says it will withhold funding for food stamps starting November 1. The move will inflict hardship on ...
The danger from artificial intelligence isn’t a Terminator-style robot uprising but tech capitalists using the technology to ...
Yesterday, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met in South Korea to strike a deal to end the trade war between their two nations.
A combination of the breakdown of the Hollywood studio system, the decline of censorship, and the rise of wildly — and ...
Historic preservation groups responded to the White House East Wing's demolition with equivocal statements and "deep concern.
As great powers abandon even the pretense of law, the undeclared war on Venezuela exposes a world ruled by extortion, ...
Thanks to its tenant unions, Los Angeles County could be on the verge of enacting an eviction moratorium to hit back against ...