A conversation with author Steven Greenhouse on history and reviving American unions. By Michael Winship This past...
Economy
Don’t believe the corporate lies. Today’s unions are growing, expanding, and boosting the wages and economic prospects...
What we have here is government by plutocratic authoritarians who’ll gleefully dole out millions to a wealthy...
Multinational corporations are increasingly encroaching on the functions of sovereign states. By Lorenzo Marsili “There is no...
Three scholars argue that agriculture is failing to sustain either the land or American farmers. They propose...
It’s a Wonderful Life prescribed community and empathy as the remedy to a callous economic system. From...
The Raise the Wage Act is an opportunity for Congress to restore dignity to work and stability...
Stressing out about potentially losing benefits can prolong financial instability. Solving this problem will help low-paid workers...
The terms “capitalism” and “socialism” have too much historical baggage. In early 2019, Donald Trump warned against socialism: it “promises...
While the weathly and powerful are coddled with public largesse, the rest of us are thrown into...
Working people deserve a better standard of living for completing what society demands. By Daniel Wasik Daniel...
Behind today’s populist upheavals is a widespread recognition that the economy no longer serves the public good,...
Vampire fiction as class allegory predates Dracula. In May 1897 Constable and Co published a limited print...
Starting with the medieval poor/rich-topics in the Aquinian tradition of the theological economy of charity, following a...
Even within the private sector there are stirrings we have not heard in many years. By John...
Capitalism and government intervention are not an either/or choice. Eighty-eight years ago, the freewheeling, free-market economy of...
It’s a common mistake of both left and right to talk about capitalism and socialism as if...
The Socialist League was one of several early socialist groups which arose in Great Britain during the...
Social media activity, political knowledge, ideological intensity, and an interest in politics are significantly associated with political-consumer...
In the 19th century, the Grange was an agricultural brotherhood that sought to foster mutual self-reliance and...
In a tight U.S. labor market, restaurant chains are recruiting at churches, senior centers and AARP. By...
A new data analysis by ProPublica and the Urban Institute shows more than half of older U.S....
The archaeological evidence is clear, but the mechanisms of diffusion are still not entirely understood. By Dr....
A Phoenician-Punic ship from a relief carving on a 2nd century CE sarcophagus / Photo by NMB, Wikimedia...
This painting by Roberto Bompiani captures a common 19th-century association of Roman dining and excess. A Roman Feast,...
An overview of the main phases of the history of globalization, as well as of radical structural breaks....
Monetary, fiscal, military, political, and economic issues are all very much intertwined. Lecture by Dr. Joseph R....
A medieval baker with his apprentice (scanned from The Medieval Cookbook by Maggie Black). As both business...
Fear of facing society’s ostracism for failure to pay them back has left borrowers alienated and trapped...
Night of August 4th, abolition of feudality and fiscal privileges, by Léopold Morice / Photo by Teofilo,...