What your chicken dinner says about wage stagnation, income inequality, and economic sclerosis in the United States
This chart shows how far behind America is in paid time off compared to the rest of the world
Brett Kavanaugh helped spearhead the impeachment of President Bill Clinton for perjury. Then he committed the same offense in his own confirmation hearings as a federal judge.
As a new school year begins, teachers in California, Colorado and Illinois, among other states, are determined to continue the fight for better pay and school funding
Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna introduced a new bill to curb so-called “corporate welfare.” It’s aimed squarely at Amazon.
Eleven research funders in Europe announce ‘Plan S’ to make all scientific works free to read as soon as they are published.
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Trump is a threat, but so too are the right-wing ideologues who surround him imposing a form of efficiency to implement their agendas. We should fear Trump, and we should fear the oped author. Both are dangerous.
We asked thinkers on the left—and a couple of outliers—to describe their vision for a re-imagined American economy. Just a decade ago, “socialism” was a dirty word in American politics. Not anymore.
A call for a new union strategy from three prominent workers' advocates. It is the concentration of wealth and power in this new economy, not computerization or artificial intelligence, that represents the gravest threat to our future.
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