Our longest-serving president would leave a deep mark on the American psyche. But was he saint or villain, and what was his true legacy?
When you build an entire system around the stock market's performance, these are the erratic, frequently disastrous results.
Elizabeth Warren’s proposal, the Accountable Capitalism Act, is a good start at remaking the economic system so it works for all of us.
GM's latest layoffs are a brutal reminder that American corporations exist only to advance the interests of their shareholders.
With technology transforming the labor market, white-collar employees are subject to the huge layoffs factory workers know all too well.
In response to the news, Trump says the administration and lawmakers are exerting "a lot of pressure" on the auto maker.
These institutions have rigged the markets for the benefit of a select few. The only solution is to make them public utilities.
In this reposted column, Chris Hedges argues that the capitalist elites want everyone else to be temp workers trapped in demeaning, low-paying, part-time, service-sector jobs without job security or benefits.
The capitalist elites want everyone else to be temp workers trapped in demeaning, low-paying, part-time, service-sector jobs without job security or benefits. For a prime example of this, check out what Uber and Lyft have done to taxi drivers, and their own drivers, in New York City.
Intentional communities of young men and women, cast aside by the corporate state, are lighting the embers of resistance.
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