Truthout
Economy
Trump’s Trade Czar Peter Navarro Is an Architect of Imperial Disaster
The practice of geopolitics is as old as empire itself.
Sanders-Khanna Bill Would Stop Monopoly Drug Pricing in the US
The bill would likely reduce the price of most brand drugs by around 50 percent.
Restore Higher Tax Rates for Corporations That Can’t Contain CEO Pay
The problem is the structure of corporate governance.
Amazon’s Move Will Gentrify Neighborhoods
Is such a market-driven approach that accepts displacement ethically justifiable?
The Gates Foundation’s Ceres2030 Plan Pushes Agenda of Agribusiness
The partnership aims to infiltrate scientific literature in order to buy influence with officials.
A New Economic Model for the South: Ditch Corporate Welfare and Fund Farm Co-ops
Companies like Nissan often fall short when it comes to providing safe, living-wage jobs in Southern Black communities.
Silicon Valley Is Undermining Democracy With Its Dangerous Ideology
Despite its slick PR, the tech industry is not inherently different from any other exploitative enterprise.
Poverty Isn’t Neglect, But the State Took My Children Anyway
The investigator made it clear that my daughters showed no signs of abuse or neglect. I lost anyway.
A Socialist Response to Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers’ Report
The report's incoherence about socialism reveals the ignorance of its conservative, bourgeois authors.
Outrage as Pelosi Pushes Tax Rule That Would “Kneecap the Progressive Agenda”
Critics say the rule would make single-payer and other progressive priorities impossible to enact.