Research shows that work shapes not only material life but also identity and community. If AI erases work as we know it, it could also erase the foundations of mass politics.

There is much more to life than work. We all have families, friends, and a beautiful world to enjoy. We need more time off to ...

Danielle Smith, Alberta’s leader, is fusing libertarian dogma with oil-soaked grievance politics. It’s Canada’s version of the New Right, dressed up in provincial pride.

Fatima Khan is an investigative reporter who specializes in politics and social justice. She recently graduated from Columbia Journalism School with a Master's in political journalism.

Chipmaker Intel has been laying off thousands of its American workers — as it rakes in billions in subsidies from the US government and lavishes multimillion-dollar severance and compensation packages ...

Poverty hits people as they move in and out of different life stages and events: job loss, disability, divorce, having children, family deaths. When they do, they will often dip into poverty — if the ...

Polish president Karol Nawrocki is shutting off welfare benefits for Ukrainians in Poland. Earlier welcomed as refugees, ...

Bill Jefferies is the author of Measuring National Income in the Centrally Planned Economies: Why the West Underestimated the Transition to Capitalism.

The Russian Marxist Yevgeni Preobrazhensky drew up one of the most sophisticated blueprints for building a socialist economy in an underdeveloped country like Russia. Stalin’s terror silenced ...

The pandemic caused unprecedented disruption to the global shipping of oil, but the industry survived with the help of massive state intervention. Control over the oil trade is a vital tool of ...

Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans 20 years ago today. In the years after the storm, the city became a laboratory of Frankenstein proportions for the most extreme forms of privatization and ...