Economy & Labor

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.

We live at a time that might be appropriately called the age of the disappearing intellectual, a disappearance that marks with disgrace a particularly dangerous period in American history. …

Two critical Wall Street reforms, once declared dead by U.S. megabanks, are suddenly close to Congressional approval.

Global capitalism has plunged much of the world in a crisis of unprecedented proportions and is causing misery and suffering for millions of people.

When public values are subordinated to the rationality of profits, the institutions that support it become corrupt.

Every Monday morning for the last 23 years, Ernesto arrived at Luz y Fuerza del Centro, Mexico City's power and light company, ready to work. This Monday, however, he …

So how can the Dow be flirting with 10,000 when consumers, who make up 70 percent of the economy, have had to cut way back on buying because …

Truthout held the country's first “virtual card check” on August 27, 2009.