Economy & Labor

Ryan-Murray bipartisan budget deal would not extend unemployment insurance for 1.3 million Americans, while maintaining $100 billion a year sequestration cuts after 2015.

Richard D. Wolff gives updates on the tentative budget deal in Congress, psychiatrists refusing insurance, austerity's terrible toll on Ireland; and more.

Decries cutting pensions of federal workers by $17 billion while maintaining “carried interest” tax break for hedge fund managers saving same amount

New report finds bank executives receive big bonuses, while 39 percent of frontline bank employees must rely on welfare because of insufficient wages.

House and Senate negotiators are close to a deal on “fast-tracking” the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and more.

Chris Hedges says that while people are disgusted with the centers of power, unless there is a constructive alternative, any eruption will be nihilistic and could be fascist.

Noam Chomsky discusses Greece, one- and two-state solutions for Israel, really existing capitalism, debt, the social contract and more.

Six months ago, Glenn Greenwald published his first article about Edward Snowden's leaks from the National Security Agency in The Guardian newspaper.

Giant corporations like Walmart actively suppress unionization among workers.

This short video explains the history of debt jubilees and the role of private debt in the rise of oligarchies.