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As New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani will have a range of options to encourage large numbers of workers to unionize — ...
While Donald Trump’s attacks on the Fed are deeply authoritarian, the institution itself is far from blameless. From the 2008 crash to the pandemic, its primary aim has been to protect the interests ...
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 ...
First CVS bled Rite Aid dry with half a billion in retroactive fees, then it bought the corpse and called it consolidation. For consumers, the result is higher drug costs.
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.
Grassroots worker organization and mobilization is essential to the success of any socialist electoral project. But ...
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 ...