Economy

Organizers and protesters around the world will come together to commemorate International Workers Day tomorrow, and they are taking on familiar targets. Large protest actions are planned in more …

Due to the consolidation of wealth and privilege into fewer and fewer hands, thus requiring escalating amounts of officially mandated surveillance and brutality to maintain social order, the natural …

Occupy Santa Fe protesters demonstrate against ALEC in January, 2012. (Photo: suenosdeuomi) Customers should be able to know if companies that they are supporting with their purchases are busy …

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California. (Photo: yuzu) Strikes, walk-outs, marches and rallies are part of Occupy Oakland's May Day plans, but the centerpiece, an attempted shutdown of the …

Picking through scraps in a Kolkata, India, waste dump. (Photo: Sterneck)When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures …

In Washington, all serious people routinely write columns in which they set themselves above the political fray and pronounce the Republicans and Democrats equally to blame for political gridlock …

The offices of Braeburn Capital, an Apple subsidiary that manages and invests Apple's cash, in Reno, Nevada, February 17, 2012. Nevada has a corporate tax rate of zero, as …

(Photo: presta) Washington - The growth of health spending has slowed substantially in the last few years, surprising experts and offering some fuel for optimism about the federal government’s …

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a conservative policy group, has helped state lawmakers craft measures aimed at curtailing U.S. EPA air pollution rules, repealing cap and trade and …

After an engaging half-hour interview with India's pre-eminent Marxist economist during a conference at New York University, I told a friend about my one-on-one time with Prabhat Patnaik. "There …