John Oliver discusses how national debt works, and why it might be more helpful that you think.
In the 1920s and ’30s, a summer school for industrial working women built an economics curriculum around the perspective of labor rather than capital. It offers a visionary example of worker ed that emphasizes class struggle and worker empowerment.
Would a Joe Biden administration relieve pressure on China, with less antagonism? Though the rhetoric may be softened, the main thrust of US policy, to prevent Beijing from ever achieving international parity with Washington, is unlikely to change
Jayati Ghosh on transforming economics, and reports from Thailand, Belarus, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, and more
Recent Black Lives Matter protests have sparked conversations about how to act in better solidarity with the Black struggle. How to move beyond rhetorical statements? How to address anti-Blackness among non-Black Arab communities?
And some of it seems to have been inspired by Elizabeth Warren
Business leaders who took part in a series of calls with the president expressed fears they could be liable if employees went into work too early and got sick
“Starve the beast” — forcing governments to cut services by depriving them of resources — has been Republican strategy for decades. This is just more of the same.
Corporate media shrug as elite declare loss of profits worse than loss of lives
It is becoming conventional wisdom that US President Donald Trump will be tough to beat in November, because, whatever reservations about him voters may have, he has been good for the American economy. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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