Economy & Labor

US Uncut, a new decentralized direct action group, held teach-ins inside two Bank of America branches in New York City on Saturday. The classes were held to discuss the …

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Jane Anne Morris is a corporate anthropologist and writer in Madison, Wisconsin, and she is affiliated with the Program on Corporations, Law, …

Thomas Jefferson. (Image: Gilbert Stuart / cliff1066™; Edited: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Although the first shots were fired in 1775 and the Declaration was signed in 1776, …

The battle between the small businessmen of America and the huge multinational East India Company actually began in Pennsylvania, according to Hewes.

While corporations can live forever, exist in several different places at the same time, change their identities at will, and even chop off parts of themselves or sprout new …

Part of the American Revolution was about to be lost a century after it had been fought.

This new corporate entity was, of course, not something that was physically real; it was an agreement, a so-called legal fiction authorized by a government.

Over the past century, corporations have repeatedly asserted that they are, in fact, “persons” and therefore eligible for the human rights protections of the Bill of Rights -- while …

Rev. Jesse Jackson describes our current moment as one of 'exceptional poverty' and is calling on President Obama to hold a bipartisan meeting on hunger and poverty.

Alexander Hamilton’s strategic proposals for American manufacturing built the greatest industrial powerhouse the world had ever seen -- before they were abandoned.