When All Else Is Out of Bounds, Zap Labor
From Nixon’s wage controls to today’s interest rate hikes, the fight against inflation has targeted labor.
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The Worst Place in the U.S. to Be Black Is...
... the home state of our new Speaker of the House. Now that our November/December issue, with its cover story
Tuesday Links; New Issue!
New Issue! We are just sending this to the printers; e-subscribers will get their full-color pdfs in the
Tuesday Links: TPP, Corbyn, Sanders, etc.
Off Guardian (embedded above), Tony Benn speech on the aims of Thatcherite policies. Via Gaius Publius, via Naked Capitalism, where
Corbyn Victory; Other election links
Scott Fullwiler, New Economic Perspectives, Corbynomics 101. A good piece responding to three critiques of Corbyn's idea of
Labor Day? Let’s Tell The Truth And Call It “Assets Day”
By Douglas K. Smith, author of On Value and Values: Thinking Differently About We In An Age Of Me. Crossposted
The Agony of Mexican Labor Today
For the last year and a half, tens of thousands of Mexican teachers have been involved in demonstrations, weeks-long
A Case for Public Ownership
Dear Dr. Dollar: Would the U.S. economy work better if some industries were nationalized? Banks? Other industries? Which ones
What's Next for Greece?
Most readers already probably know the sequence of events between Greece and its creditors over the last month: a fruitless
The People in the Tents Say "Yes"
Fernando Mendez has been a leader of the encampment from the beginning. When Ruben Beas says he's been
On Its 80th Birthday, Securing Social Security
Today is the 80th anniversary of Social Security; here's our book reviewer Steve Pressman's review of