Earlier this week, Bloomberg ran a quirky business story about a losing investment by Harvard’s endowment fund.…
America’s inequality crisis will not be fixed until the public embraces the idea that the accumulation of vast…
The selling point of Joe Biden’s campaign for president is that our current political nightmare is just a momentary…
Like thirsty desert travelers converging on a shimmering oasis, Democratic presidential candidates flocked to the Iow…
Yesterday, hundreds of employees of the Carnegie Library system in Pittsburgh voted to unionize with the United…
Here is what we talk about in the “political” world: blah blah Trump, blah blah Pelosi, blah blah terrifying slide…
A new research paper says that during the Cold War, the looming threat of communism caused capitalist countries to keep inequality low: “The results suggest, as reinforced by some cases studied, that the spread of communism fostered deals between domestic elites and workers that redistributed the gains from capital in… Read more
The issue of minimum wage is not as simple as you, a moron, saying “I would like to be paid more money.” It is about …
What’s this—an interview of a couple of billionaire heirs in a “safe” publication in which they fuck up and say some…
As difficult as it may be while staring down a 2020 reelection campaign, it is worth taking some time to mull over…
Thanks to persistent low unemployment, labor’s share of income, which has been declining for decades due to capital’s victorious class war, could finally be set to rise—“and that could spell trouble for corporate profit margins and the share prices that are ultimately dependent on them.” GOOD.
Yes, we must tax the rich. Yes, we must wrest political power from the rich so that they don’t have it all. But if…
Ro Khanna, the second-term Democratic Congressman from Silicon Valley and a national co-chair of Bernie Sanders’…
How is it that, against the will of the public, a minority sect of religious zealots can be empowered to essentially…
It appears that one of the small family of monarchs that lords over the “United” “Kingdom” has produced a new child.…
Anyone following the labor movement today could be forgiven for thinking it’s one-dimensional. The museums are…
You know that the class war has reached a dire level when all the billionaires start weighing in with plans to help.…
For perhaps the first time in living memory, reparations for African-Americans are a topic of serious mainstream…