Economy

While the media is packed with material about consumer rights, there is seldom mention of workers' rights.

Iraq and Libya have been taken out, and Iran has been heavily boycotted. Syria is now in the crosshairs. Why? Here is one overlooked scenario.

We must mobilize to save the commons and build the foundation for a world in which people work together.

A strike declared nearly two weeks ago in Colombia by farmers and joined later by truck drivers, health workers, miners and students spread to include protests in the cities …

Are we really going to do this? Are we going to wade into a struggle we don't really want to fight? Are we going to mire ourselves in a …

Congress will reconvene shortly. That means more battles over taxes and spending, regulations and safety nets, and how to get the economy out of first gear. Which means more …

Greg Palast has obtained a secret memo revealing Larry Summers was involved in deal that helped setup the global economic crisis.

All over the country Fast Food workers are walking off their jobs, continuing a legacy for civil rights that Dr. King Began over fifty years ago.

For Greece to overcome its crisis, the country's political culture must be changed, argues CJ Polychroniou, and that implies a new public philosophy, where, first and foremost, rights are …

In her new book, Laura Gottesdiener puts faces to the facts of the subprime mortgage crisis; specifically the faces of black Americans, who are bearing the brunt of the …